Example sentences of "[prep] years we " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the past couple of years we have seen application tools embrace the facilities offered by the Windows front end or graphics user interfaces ( GUIs ) . |
| 2 | In a couple of years we 'll be outnumbered . ’ |
| 3 | He suggests the millions of years we spent as reptiles are what have kept the myth of the dragon alive in the art and literature of the world , and this theory also has a physiological basis . |
| 4 | Er , you know , saying that we 've firmed up the policy now , when erm I think a couple of years we were perhaps somewhere different . |
| 5 | One thing we did discuss at committee but I think it ought to be put to the A G M we discussed the increase in the cost of er , admission erm we held our prices down for at least a couple of years we had a heavy outlay on cushions I do feel that erm we ought to put in to the meeting what we discussed at committee that be raised from two fifty and one twenty five to three pounds and two pounds for the concessions including students and erm the youngsters . |
| 6 | In a few hundreds , or at most thousands , of years we have gone from wolf to Pekinese , Bulldog , Chihuahua and Saint Bernard . |
| 7 | Every couple of years we would rewrite the address book , leaving out those items not referenced in the index and up-date the index ( or write another one ) . |
| 8 | OVER the last number of years we , the Liverpool fans , have been accused by many ( including TTW&R ) of being obsessed with Manchester United . |
| 9 | For a number of years we have been trying to upgrade the quality of our business , in terms of the technical content of products , the level of design we build in and the price we charge . |
| 10 | well erm , I 'll see if this one 's a boy , probably in a couple of years we might try for a girl , I do n't know |
| 11 | And the young lads are listening and learning erm so hopefully , in a couple of years we 'll have a good side over here . |
| 12 | ‘ For years we had been trying to lower and streamline the bonnets of front-engined cars and the mid-engined configuration allowed us to obtain an extremely low nose , deeply recessed between sculpted front wings that sloped down to the headlights , which were contained in a plexiglass fairing to continue the line . |
| 13 | And our love does not depend on anything , though for years we saw nothing of each other , still we should love . |
| 14 | For years we have been a low productivity low-wage plant and we have ended up losing our jobs and all the new investment opportunities . |
| 15 | For years we had requests from political people , parties , you know , around the country , to allow other ministers to go forward and we said ‘ No ’ . |
| 16 | For years we have had the technology for every constituency headquarters to be linked to a central databank of key information . |
| 17 | For years we in this country have been accustomed to say ‘ American education is superficial ’ or ‘ the trouble with American students is that they have no idea of scholarship ’ . |
| 18 | In a letter to the Stanford committee on research , the faculty said : ‘ For years we have been able to tell visiting school children , student , engineers , scientists , laymen and the press that we are here to do basic research on the fundamental properties of matter and that we do not do any military work . |
| 19 | For years we 've been told the Government is pledged to reach the UN aid target of 0.7 per cent . |
| 20 | For years we have taken its plentiful , unadulterated supply for granted . |
| 21 | For years we had studiously avoided visiting the island of Bali on the quite false assumption that its international airport and beach hotels placed it beyond our professional interest . |
| 22 | For years we had no telephone , and the house was lit in our time by acetylene gas which we made each evening in the pigsty . |
| 23 | For years we urged rulers there to let their people go and to make their people free . |
| 24 | FOR years we have claimed to have the best butchers in the United Kingdom . |
| 25 | For years we plodded on : bought a house , had two kids , never really knew what the other was thinking . |
| 26 | haaland is a central defender and sundgot is an attacker ; both talented — though i value fat-frank far higher than sundgot. so two vikings at forest and three ( ! ) at oldham — so norway 's tally just keeps growing as the biggest contigent of non-english players — which is quite amazing — for years we had just the odd-player like aage hareide ( man city and norwich ) , einar aass ( nott forest — i imagine his english team-mates had some fun with his name : - ] ) and erik the viking at spurs but nowadays you need a computer to have control … |
| 27 | For years we have er all , producers and consumers , we have supported the idea that a market would be a reasonable way to set up reasonable levels of price . |