Example sentences of "[verb] many year " in BNC.
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| 1 | My training as an historian would allow me to save what could be saved and is why I got to work many years ago . |
| 2 | I began to worry many years ago when I heard a young artist say at a Whitechapel Art Gallery discussion , ‘ I 'm in the painting business , not the explanation business ’ . |
| 3 | Some Old Testament books describe events that occurred many years before they were written . |
| 4 | As Cicourel and Kitsuse demonstrated many years ago ( 1963 ) , the choice was in fact more illusory than real . |
| 5 | The practice stopped many years ago but in many farm kitchens in the county , the hooks can still be seen . |
| 6 | At other times they would collect along the river bank and the younger Martyn was to write many years later of Crocus vernus , ‘ I remember , when a boy , to have seen it in considerable quantity in Battersea meadow , near the mill ’ . |
| 7 | In the two I 've just mentioned you will find a character who lives many years without the benefit of some vital knowledge , something they really needed to know . |
| 8 | His flight on wings of song and dream lies many years ahead … ’ |
| 9 | Robert Mason , who has many years experience in catering , has an excellent idea of how to welcome his guests : a small decanter of sherry , fresh fruit and chocolate , await you in your room . |
| 10 | The director of Knossos 2000 , Dr Ken Wardle , who has many years experience of digging in Greece and who has just completed the excavation of the prehistoric settlement of Assiros Toumba in Macedonia , commenting on the importance of the project , told The Art Newspaper , ‘ Apart from the potential of the site itself , the project will provide an opportunity to focus research on the history and archaeology of Roman provincial cities in Greece , which have largely been neglected in favour of those of the Classical and Hellenistic periods ’ . |
| 11 | A nurse who trains at the age of forty still has many years of valuable service ahead and many years of past experience to draw upon . |
| 12 | Stewart has many years of experience in both graphic and carpet design , gained as the Senior Designer in the London offices of Stoddard Mercia , and previously as the London Contract Designer with B.M.K. |
| 13 | He has many years experience in carpet retail selling . |
| 14 | The new streamlined ‘ Action Team ’ at L.D.P. in Leamington Spa , headed by Tony Fallon , Sales Manager with ( from right ) , Anna Harris , Sales Office Supervisor who has many years of experience with L.D.P. ; Natalie Anstey with the all round versatility of youth ; Cynthia Clark and Jan McGrath having strong accountancy/customer liaison skills and Cora Lake with a sales/marketing background . |
| 15 | An interesting idea proposed many years ago by Fred Hoyle depends upon the proven fact that the Sun has a magnetic field , just like the Earth has . |
| 16 | Sudan has suffered many years of intermittent internal strife between governments dominated by northerners and separatist movements in the south . |
| 17 | It was revealed many years later that Sid had not actually bought the winning ticket but had found it mysteriously floating in his half-time Bovril . |
| 18 | Electricity , gas and water companies have sought many years for a way to read meters without visiting the customer 's premises . |
| 19 | Anna Freud writing many years later in her classic book , erm , Normality of Pathology in Childhood , erm , candidly admits that er , the first generation of analysts was wrong about this , and she , she , she , she candidly says that the analytic profession changed its view , although Freud never did . |
| 20 | As Punch would have said many years ago , ‘ collapse of Stout Party ’ . |
| 21 | Now that was said many years ago |
| 22 | The Houston Astrodome in Texas was built many years ago and offers 24 acres of covered facilities . |
| 23 | One of the problems of course that erm a lot of clubs face is that the grounds were built many years ago |
| 24 | Slow retrieval speed has led to a partial withdrawal of relational database systems in a few organisations as well as the late appearance of commercial relational DBMS which came many years after their research counterparts . |
| 25 | But , even when we have made allowance for the exaggerated impressions of a boy of fifteen , recollected many years later , it may be taken as evidence that Lanfranc and his handful of monks from Bec and Caen met not only with hostility , but also with a good deal of successful resistance . |
| 26 | We can see this clearly in the story of the men at Ephesus ( Acts 19 ) who had not heard of the gift of Pentecost even though they were living many years after that event . |
| 27 | To be sure , both of these cantos are special cases — as was , we may suppose , the ‘ Envoi ’ to Hugh Selwyn Mauberley , written many years before . |
| 28 | The importance of focusing on a manageable instance was well brought out in an American textbook on statistics written many years ago . |
| 29 | In a review of two books on the 1914–18 war , written many years ago , the historian and critic A. J. P. Taylor said , ‘ There is one piece of advice which can be given to all generals , successful and otherwise : ‘ Do not keep a diary ’ … |
| 30 | Although written many years ago , Lady Chatterley 's Lover has just been reissued by the Grove Press , and this pictorial account of the day by day life of an English game-keeper is full of considerable interest to outdoor-minded readers as it contains many passages on pheasant raising , the apprehending of poachers , ways to control vermin and other chores and duties of the professional game-keeper . |