They have remained on the opened page of my mind in all the years which since have passed.

To the stump of a tree as he passed it, the same stump which had impaled the car of many a guest in the past thirty years and which he refused to have removed.

and it is not unlikely that, even as the great Bach lay dormant for so many years, so has the erudite, ingenious SalFininistas passed through his `` purgatory '' of neglect.

Twice in the last thirty years our enemies, the Germans, have passed through this corridor.

So as the years passed, I saw them each time in the light of an accelerated personal conflagration.

Many years have passed since a Metropolitan audience heard anything comparable.

While Miss Marple is described as ' an old lady ' in many of the stories, her age is mentioned in " At Bertram's Hotel ", where it is said she visited the hotel when she was 14 and almost 60 years have passed since then.

Excluding " Sleeping Murder ", forty-one years passed between the first and last-written novels, and many characters grow and age.

He sings the sixth and fifth verses in that order, and Stowe included another verse not written by Newton that had been passed down orally in African American communities for at least 50 years.

The situation became worse as the years passed and the aging Afonso lost control over his court.

His earliest years were passed in the monastery of Siresa, learning to read and write and to practice the military arts until the tuition of Lope Garcés the Pilgrim, who was repaid for his services by his former charge with the county of Pedrola when Alfonso came to the throne.

After the death of Fulk in a hunting accident in 1143, the throne passed jointly to Melisende and Amalric's older brother Baldwin III, who was still only 13 years old.

The early years of Canova were passed in study.

In August 1825, he passed entrance exams at Harvard University, though when the college requested payment of tuition fees for the first two years which he had successfully challenged by examination, he chose not to attend.

Eight years have passed, and the city of Genoa is still trying to recover from the many damages provoked by the rioters, mainly devoted to crash cars, setting stores on fire, robbing banks and using any heavy or pointed object as a means to provoke damage to people and objects.

After a period of fifty years has passed, Beowulf defeats a dragon, but is fatally wounded in the battle.

After years of extensive lobbying for federal dollars, a 1987 public works bill appropriating funding for the Big Dig was passed by U. S. Congress, but it was subsequently vetoed by President Ronald Reagan as being too expensive.

Spain, for example, passed a bankruptcy law ( ley concursal ) in 2003 which provides for debt settlement plans that can result in a reduction of the debt ( maximally half of the amount ) or an extension of the payment period of maximally five years ( Gerhardt, 2009 ); nevertheless, it does not foresee debt discharge.

In 860, an attack was made on the city by a new principality set up a few years earlier at Kiev by Askold and Dir, two Varangian chiefs: Two hundred small vessels passed through the Bosporus and plundered the monasteries and other properties on the suburban Prince's Islands.

She seems to have passed her son off on his grandmother Livia for a number of years.

Many years have passed since the Capetian monarchs ruled a large part of Europe ; however, they still remain as kings, as well as other titles.

But as years passed, this support was slowly withdrawn.

Against lay investiture they won only a limited success, and one that seemed less impressive as the years passed.

The census records are made publicly available when 100 years have passed.

Ten years later, limited liability, the key provision of modern corporate law, passed into English law: in response to increasing pressure from newly emerging capital interests, Parliament passed the Limited Liability Act 1855, which established the principle that any corporation could enjoy limited legal liability on both contract and tort claims simply by registering as a " limited " company with the appropriate government agency.

It looked as Gavin had first seen it years ago, on those nights when he slept alone by his campfire and waked suddenly to the hoot of an owl or the rustle of a blade of grass in the moon's wind -- a savage land, untenanted and brooding, too strong to be broken by the will of men.

The Gap looming before him -- the place where had confronted Jack English on that day so many years ago -- was his exit from all that had meaning to him.

But ten years in prison had taught him realities.

For his first five years in prison, they had shared a cell.

Twenty years before a group of Easterners had bought out the Haskell claims in the rocky hills south of Grass Valley.

Ten years older than Mitch Barton, he had clawed his way up from mucker in the pits to manager of the operation.

Why did these yokels still wear boots, anyway, when most had scarcely sat a horse in years??

But to the cattlemen who had been facing bankruptcy from rustling losses and to the cowboys who had been faced with lay-offs a few years earlier, he was becoming a vastly different type of legendary figure.

I had come to New Orleans two years earlier after graduating college, partly because I loved the city and partly because there was quite a noted art colony there.

Sometimes I wondered vaguely what he did about women for my Aunt, by blood, had died some years ago, but neither of us said anything.

My new Aunt was perhaps three or four years older than I and it had been a long time since I had seen as gorgeous a woman who oozed sex.

Some had been there for years ; ;

Hell, I gave him the first decent job he ever had, six, seven -- how many years ago was it, Rob ''??

His years of campaigning had taught him the value of water discipline.

Aristide Devol, the sardonic manservant who had been brought in chains years before from his native Sierra Leone, smiled thinly and touched his well-brushed beaver hat.

Wisman, who has had the chief controller's job for four years, calls the signals for a team operating three rows of dull-gray consoles studded with lights, switches and buttons.

I persuaded an Australian friend who had lived `` outback '' for years to take me to see some aborigines living in the bush.

During these years the youthful conductor had contributed greatly to the high level of musical life in Germany.

After he had spent the first three years in New York as associate conductor, at Toscanini's invitation, of the NBC Orchestra, he made numerous guest appearances throughout the United States and Latin America.

Though the four boys and two girls, the youngest nineteen years of age, the oldest twenty-four, came from varying backgrounds and had different professional and personal interests, there was surprising agreement among them.

The Jews had been banished from England in 1290 and were not permitted to return before 1655, when Shakespeare had been dead for thirty-nine years.