Example sentences of "[adj] years be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cessation of chlorambucil after two symptom free years was followed by prompt recrudescence of inguinal lymphadenopathy necessitating further local radiotherapy ( 18 Gy ) and maintenance chlorambucil ( 2 mg twice daily ) . |
| 2 | Comparing the datasets from different years is not straightforward , for the following reasons . |
| 3 | The results from our 1990 serum samples ( 34.8% of subjects of mean age 545.7 years were seropositive ) were similar to those of the cross sectional surveys . |
| 4 | As Ivan Nagy , the Russian-trained Hungarian dancer who runs English National Ballet , points out , to produce four great artists like Nureyev , Makarova , Baryshnikov and Mukhamedov in 30 years is not a great striking rate for so huge a nation . |
| 5 | Long-term investment over 20 to 30 years is likely to prove advantageous to those companies with surplus cash who anticipate that development may be permitted in the long-term future . |
| 6 | It was revealed last night that Acklam Park in Middlesbrough a regular venue for Yorkshire County Cricket Club for the past 30 years is the subject of an offer from supermarket giants Argyll . |
| 7 | They were given a grandstand view of how the world 's first new man-made fibre for 30 years is manufactured . |
| 8 | The big jeans names are already aware of the authentic newcomers , and are beginning to realise that the original utility styles they updated and bastardised over the past 30 years are the current fashion winners : watch them scramble to regain their own heritage . |
| 9 | Thirteen championships , four European Cups , four FA Cups , four League Cups and two UEFA Cups inside 30 years are more than enough for one club , I say . |
| 10 | The old certainties that ruled computer industry analysis over the past 30 years are tumbling like autumn leaves , and commercial realities are now eating away at the traditional determination of Japanese companies to forget the bottom line and stick with major product sectors for the long term : Sony Corp says it is considering pulling out of Japan 's competitive word processor market to save the cost of developing and manufacturing new models , Reuter reports from Tokyo ; Sony began making word processors in 1985 and production reached a peak of 10,000 a month ; NEC Corp , Toshiba Corp , Fujitsu Ltd and Sharp Corp now dominate the market and Sony currently makes just 500 of the things a month , a drop in the 1992 market ocean of 2.6m machines . |
| 11 | The 1986 data destroyed the myth that the foreign kill rate was comparable to the US rate , and confirmed that the widely accepted official figure of 6 million dolphins killed by purse seiners over the past 30 years was a gross underestimate . |
| 12 | In 1818 , the Walker colliery which had been closed for the preceding 30 years was reopened . |
| 13 | The worst drought for 30 years was reported to have hit northern Namibia in late 1989 , with no rain at all falling between September , the normal start of the rainy season , and mid-January 1990 . |
| 14 | THE most important reform of the police for 30 years was announced by the Home Secretary , Kenneth Clarke , yesterday . |
| 15 | THE most important reform of the police for 30 years was announced by the Home Secretary , Kenneth Clarke , yesterday . |
| 16 | The White Paper represented an important policy shift ; dispersal policies , pre-eminent for 30 years were now secondary to a switch of resources to inner areas . |
| 17 | Was it that he suddenly realised that his convictions of the past 30 years were false , or did he simply realise that the electorate could not stomach them ? |
| 18 | Eventually all the machines manufactured over the past 30 years were divided by the CCITT into three groups , imaginatively designated as Groups One , Two and Three . |
| 19 | It emerged that Hayman had for some years been connected with the Paedophile Information Exchange ( PIE ) , and had received their contact magazine — carrying advertisements from men seeking sex with children — through the post . |
| 20 | In the United States , academics have for some years been engaging in what has been termed the ‘ deregulation critique ’ of the federal role in education . |
| 21 | ‘ As a biologist , my main interest has for some years been human genetics , the study of the way in which various characteristics are passed from parent to offspring . |
| 22 | Similar assumptions were made by those authorities , like the London County Council , which had for some years been committed to the development of comprehension . |
| 23 | Stravinsky had for some years been his favourite composer , and he had worked with Hanns on ideas for the setting and costumes . |
| 24 | University College London has for some years been offering a one-year postgraduate diploma course in librarianship to experienced graduate teachers . " |
| 25 | The use of a written procedure was pioneered in the House of Lords where each party has for some years been required to lodge a ‘ Case ’ with the court which is very similar to the skeleton arguments more recently introduced in the Court of Appeal . |
| 26 | Details are given below under Teaching , but it is worth mentioning here the training course in French law at the University of Aix/ Marseille , for which scholarships have for some years been offered by the Cultural Service of the French Embassy , 22 Wilton Crescent , London SW1 . |
| 27 | Europe now produces more food than she needs and has for some years been supporting a section of industry that provides employment for less than 1% of our National workforce ; good for British agriculture , but how much better if the support had gone to those industries that took up a greater proportion of the work force , i.e. the engineers with 10% . |
| 28 | It has for some years been established beyond doubt that Elisabeth used her long period as custodian of her brother 's works and papers ( during which time she wrote and rewrote his biography , as well as overseeing the editing of his works ) to misrepresent important aspects of his life and thought and , in extreme cases , to falsify letters and unpublished writings . |
| 29 | Indeed , throughout the 1960s successive governments were struggling to balance the books and it was rather a case of some years being less bad than others . |
| 30 | Some years were to pass before statutes could only be made in parliament . |