The phrase "during the same years" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a specific period of time that is occurring at the same time as another event. Example: During the same years that she pursued her career as a lawyer, she also volunteered at a local animal shelter.
The middle class has eroded during the same years when the productivity of American workers has increased.
The 103 stories in this volume are witnesses to a marvel of prodigious production (during the same years he produced seven novels and five books of poetry).
But during the same years and under the same roof that saw his jingoistic figurative art gain popularity, the atoms of a future, combustive American abstraction were gathering.
The 103 stories in this volume, some of them published when Updike was 21, are witnesses to a marvel of prodigious production (during the same years he produced seven novels and five books of poetry).
The 103 stories in this volume, some of them published when he was 21, are witnesses to a marvel of prodigious production (during the same years he produced seven novels and five books of poetry).
I grew up in Virginia during the same years in which "Go Set a Watchman" takes place, and among people not unlike those in Lee's novels — not exactly deep Alabama, but definitely the South.
Marimow says that the Sun made great strides in narrative and in-depth journalism — and was acknowledged for doing so in the Columbia Journalism Review and other publications — during the same years that Simon "claims we were destroying it".
Although the couple met in 1999 as ninth graders at Dallastown Area High School in Dallastown, Pa., and both attended Penn State during the same years, they did not start dating until July 2008.
This was then compared with data on youth violence during the same years, with the study finding a correlation between falling youth violence and the popularity of violent games.
The interviews juxtapose memories of the passenger trains on which Mr. Reich traveled from Los Angeles to New York as a child in the 1940's with Holocaust survivors' recollections of the cattle cars in which they were transported to concentration camps during the same years.
