Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can compare this with a similar attempt made eight years later by Stubbs ( 1983 ) , who distinguishes four main areas of language which teachers should know about if they are to be able to make informed decisions about language problems at school : |
| 2 | I seem to remember seeing that years ago . |
| 3 | Even though he has pushed through legislation to outlaw the ‘ sow pen ’ the government is allowing eight years for it to be passed out . |
| 4 | The true theory of the Nicol prism was not clearly understood even by its inventor , but in a neglected paper by Edward Sang the mathematical theory is given completely for the first time ; this also contains a suggestion , made forty-seven years later by M. E. Bertrand in the Comptes Rendus , that a polarizer might be constructed of two glass prisms separated by a suitably placed thin layer of Iceland spar . |
| 5 | Two people who were sacked eight years ago from the Government Communications Headquarters for refusing to leave their trade union , are continuing their campaign to get union rights reinstated . |
| 6 | The same might be said of Redon 's frequently alluded to fragility : according to Eisenman he was ever teetering on the brink of depression and death , though this in turn does not explain why the artist lived seventy-five years of life quite satisfactorily . |
| 7 | ASHANTI ARE a Belfast based three piece which were formed eight years ago by guitarist Steven Boyd — the last remaining original member of the band . |
| 8 | One hundred and eighteen patients were studied — 61 with gastric ulcer ( 41 men and 20 women , age range 19–82 years , mean 56.5 years ) and 57 with duodenal ulcer ( 35 men and 22 women , age range 18–85 years , mean 45.8 years ) . |
| 9 | Duration of symptoms was at least one year in every patient ( mean 3.7 years ) . |
| 10 | None of the old historians of this County take notice of this Chantry , not even Mr Lambarde , who lived some years in the Bishops ' Palace here . |
| 11 | Given the go-ahead in 1793 , it was completed 30 years later . |
| 12 | Dorothy Tyson has been made churchwarden emeritus of St Nicholas 's Church , North Grimston near Malton , after completing 30 years as warden . |
| 13 | John Wilson , whom I last met some years ago with his wife on a trip to the Seychelles , thanked His Grace , and paid tribute to the support and enthusiasm of his wife , Alan Smith his hardworking keeper , Peter Pask the farm manager , and his farm staff . |
| 14 | Radiocarbon was developed forty years ago and is still the scientific dating method most commonly used by archaeologists . |
| 15 | SEVERAL P&O Marathon Men successfully completed this years ' London Marathon — each in their own style . |
| 16 | I 'm sixty years of age and while I 'm prepared to plant the woods for my grandson , I 'd like to see some growth myself I ca n't afford to wait forty years . " |
| 17 | But many organists have undertaken some years of an expensive musical training and still give many hours a week to practising . |
| 18 | Major restoration projects include the Cathedral of Our Lady whose exterior is now almost complete ; inside , the first phase of work on the nave and roof was completed some years ago . |
| 19 | Presteigne ( the modern spelling ) had a railway connection , completed in 1875 but planned some years earlier ( see below ) , which lasted right up till Dr Beeching 's Axe . |
| 20 | Hound Tor is a deserted settlement in Manaton parish , high on the east side of Dartmoor , which was excavated some years ago and has been left open so that visitors can see it . |
| 21 | So to my mind , er the , the people dare dance should have been yourselves er I mean some years ago where your jobs are very secure , you knew that you were likely to see the end of the term in e e employed . |
| 22 | Hall seems to endorse a proposal made some years ago by that , on the basis of this simple genetic control , ‘ Torsion , and with it the class Gastropoda , arose through a single gene mutation . ’ |
| 23 | The position would have been very different in the case of a payment made some years before which was sought to be recovered because a court in another case had ruled that the regulation under which the demand had been made had all along been ultra vires . |
| 24 | Unfortunately the statement of Balassa made some years ago still remains true , " there exists no wholly satisfactory way of measuring the effect of a customs union or free trade area on trade flows . |
| 25 | ( seated , has completed 22 years service — could she be our longest serving secretary ? ) |
| 26 | The legendary mole hole was exposed 30 years later when a startled construction crew smashed into it . |
| 27 | She must have realised some years before that I was n't headed in the direction of St Margaret 's , Westminster , but she had still intended the occasion to glitter , a bright milestone in our uneventful lives . |
| 28 | One hundred and eighteen patients were studied — 61 with gastric ulcer ( 41 men and 20 women , age range 19–82 years , mean 56.5 years ) and 57 with duodenal ulcer ( 35 men and 22 women , age range 18–85 years , mean 45.8 years ) . |
| 29 | For example , support given some years ago to a postgraduate in Theoretical Chemistry , Mark Bayley , led to offers of collaboration between Bristol , Yale and a German University . |
| 30 | given some years earlier , |