Example sentences of "[adj] years it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Demolition trains became a regular sight on Sundays during 1987 however , and for the first time in over 30 years it was possible to photograph trains without the hindrance of electric stanchions . |
| 2 | But now the solar influence is beginning to turn around to contribute a further warming influence up to the year 2010 , boosting the greenhouse effect where for the past 30 years it has been counterbalancing it . |
| 3 | After nearly 30 years it is the station 's biggest single money-spinner , accounting for the lion 's share of its sales to the ITV network . |
| 4 | Having been a teacher for over 30 years it might seem strange that I should begin a book on primary education by reflecting on the significance of schooling . |
| 5 | this one was the biggest and best in a long while … for the first time in 30 years it was open to professionals as well as amateurs and drew in two former world champions in Tony Doyle and Danny Clark and three Milk Race winners in … |
| 6 | Some years it was bad , other years not so bad . |
| 7 | She points out that after battling against the booze for some years it only took a short relapse to destroy much of what she 'd worked for . |
| 8 | Over the past 2 years it has been subject to extensive repairs and its site to archaeological investigation . |
| 9 | It is one of the remotest places in the British Isles … for forty years it has been the victim of a real topographical tragedy … a manufacturing town of 50,000 people where a rural centre of 20,000 would have been sufficient . |
| 10 | For over forty years it was illegal in Indonesia to kill , capture or keep an orang-utan in captivity . |
| 11 | Although hailed at the time as ‘ the most important discovery in England [ and perhaps ] … of greater importance than any other yet made at home or abroad ’ , during the next forty years it became increasingly difficult to reconcile this hominid with the burgeoning human fossil record from Asia and Africa . |
| 12 | In the past two and half years it has risen four times in real terms to pay for the publication of more and more glossy pamphlets such as the parents charter — party political propaganda produced at the taxpayers ' expense . |
| 13 | Yes it would , it would not be properly to , to just make one comment and that is that the next five hundred thousand that the local is therefore two point six million from the reserve fund , that is substainable for two and a half years it is not substainable beyond . |
| 14 | The economy has been so strong in the last few years it 's going to take a lot to bring it down . ’ |
| 15 | And : ‘ What keeps Las Vegas powerful is every few years it becomes more fabulous and more outrageous . ’ |
| 16 | Within a few years it had 200 local groups , had organized the first London rally against nuclear power ( in 1977 ) , and had effectively intervened in the debate about British nuclear policy . |
| 17 | Within a few years it was the Guns Mill Paper Company . |
| 18 | La Plata , the administrative centre of Buenos Aires province , had undergone economic vicissitudes at the end of the century , but with the upturn in its fortunes in the next few years it acquired a station of striking originality , an overall shed flanked by a staggeringly ornate pentagonal building covered in statuary and surmounted by a dome . |
| 19 | Within a few years it had evolved into the ASEA , and by 1909 there were seventeen affiliated committees in London and ten in the provinces . |
| 20 | For a few years it would undoubtedly be more expensive to cable Britain with optical-fibre links directly into the home . |
| 21 | In the past few years it has suffered from serious errors in planning and a lack of investment . |
| 22 | But in a few years it could find applications in the long-term treatment of parasitic diseases , and even as a contraceptive pill . |
| 23 | In the last few years it has become clear that many other churches are working in this way in every denomination . |
| 24 | Critics of multimedia say that it is a solution looking for a problem , but during the past few years it has delivered many useful applications , some of them in the financial sector . |
| 25 | While the Camphill Development Project will naturally take up time and energy and demand much sacrifice over the next few years it must not become our only goal . |
| 26 | It seemed like a good idea at the time , but that time , I could feel , was running out , and I could see that in a very few years it would have run . |
| 27 | For the last few years it was held up by 20 players of outstanding international standard and we did not realise that technically we were dying ’ . |
| 28 | Within a very few years it succeeded in drastically altering the climate in its own homelands — much to the pain of surviving Liberals , such as Harnack , who saw in the entire regrettable enterprise the swamping of properly respectable theological and historical study by a wave of sheer barbarism , of uncouth and indeed vulgar ‘ enthusiasm ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ Naturally these past few years it has n't been worn . |
| 30 | In the last few years it has been appreciated by the House of Commons that the method of scrutiny chosen was not best adapted to influence the final shape of Community legislation . |