Example sentences of "[be] [verb] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | It admits that it had n't expected to be in this line of work so long , having thought Unix 's compatibility issues would have been resolved years ago . |
| 2 | So , what did you think of the adverts ? of Decommissioning and Waste Management 's Transport Technology Department felt that the idea of the high-profile campaign was ‘ good , but it should have been done years ago ’ . |
| 3 | " It could have been done years ago , but nobody was really interested in it . " |
| 4 | You could keep them a as long as it was a reasonable way from the street as you might say and , and were fortunate because our pigstys had been built years before and they were ooh , suitably fifty to sixty yards from the main road you see , but I used to laugh at that when we , when we were having these pigs killed . |
| 5 | Also insect pests and diseases increase when the same crops are grown year after year . |
| 6 | If England were looking to the future then some of the players should have been selected years ago . |
| 7 | He did n't say anything about ( well-documented ) insults Yeugh directed at the distinguished internationals for no apparent reason — like telling Eddie Gray ‘ if you were a racehorse you 'd have been shot years ago ’ in front of the team — or indeed any of the other eccentric behaviour of the man that got him fired . |
| 8 | And then I , and I made this bit of a faux pas , I says , oh you must have got a very good rate , cos I knew she 'd been retired years and years , you see . |
| 9 | With fertilisers the same crops can be grown year after year on the same fields and still they give high yields . |
| 10 | Superior tone with no distortion can be had year long for just £25.50 in the UK , £30 for Europe and overseas by surface mail , £42 for Europe by air and £52 for overseas by air . |
| 11 | But care may be needed years after an accident . |
| 12 | The targets for emissions — and therefore number of licences available — will be reduced year by year , leading to a steady fall in pollution . |
| 13 | These credits will be reduced year by year , thus encouraging companies to cut emissions or , as an alternative , to buy credits from other companies who no longer need them . |
| 14 | I 'm saying years ago my old dad , he , he were eighty nine and he never had a blood test in his life . |
| 15 | ‘ I would n't like to put a time on it , but we could be talking years . |
| 16 | We must provide the means , the equipment and the training , and that must be maintained year after year . |
| 17 | I have also seen the excellent work being done on prevention in schools and with young people to get across the message , which must be repeated year after year as children come into the consuming group , about the dangers of drug abuse . |
| 18 | It jumped headfirst into the 1980s property boom and is now paying the price : the ebbing tide has revealed not only severe recession damage , but also gaping holes which should have been plugged years ago . |
| 19 | Had n't the source been blocked years ago ? |
| 20 | The transition period after leaving institutional care has also been documented as a critical time , when young people may be forced to return to the unhappy home situation from which they had been removed years earlier . |
| 21 | Targets are reviewed year on year . |
| 22 | The sentences of most of the military prisoners were completed years ago , but nobody is released . |
| 23 | At the same time , the fathers at home were given years to implement the law and still the women suffered and raged . |
| 24 | The trouble is that the majority of kitchens in the majority of homes were designed years ago with appliances , storage cabinets , work surfaces and lighting that is now either inadequate or unsuitable . |
| 25 | Despite archaeological discoveries which are still being made year by year and which throw more light upon the Etruscan civilisation , knowledge of these people , their origins , their way of life is still far from complete . |
| 26 | A fifth , mid-century , scribe wrote the calendar , the verses and the Chronicle entries down to 490 , and a sixth the annals probably to the end of 1048 ; those to 1044 seem to have been written at one time , while changes in the appearance of the script suggest that subsequent entries were made year by year . |
| 27 | ( The rest were bought years ago ! ) |
| 28 | If the figures were shown year on year , other variations would appear too . |
| 29 | This criticism was in part a reflection of the call made by the Report of the Committee on Physical Deterioration for greater physical and mental education for adolescents , but it also pointed to the three main criticisms of clubs which were reiterated years later by Freeman : that they could only really provide amusement ; that their positive educational value was small ; and that they failed to reach the mass of boys . |
| 30 | Thus , when the stone ramparts had been constructed years ago , there had been no mistress of Tracy Castle , and the pleasance had been abandoned and left outside the boundaries of the bailey . |