Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | After spending years making his name in northern clubs , his big break came on TV 's Opportunity Knocks in 1967 . |
| 2 | A man might be sacked at an hour 's notice , perhaps after giving years of service , yet received no compensation , no redundancy payment . |
| 3 | THREE massive Wirral landmarks , quayside cranes at Bidston dock , are being dismantled after giving years of service to Birkenhead docks . |
| 4 | Continuous recording drastically limited a lot of standard studio effects taken for granted years later . |
| 5 | ‘ He should have done a bit of minding years ago . ’ |
| 6 | that the reference to the accounts could not be viewed accurately without viewing the statutory statement of business which filed only just a month or so back reveals a sixteen and a half billion surplus in the members premium trust fund up from twelve and a half billion at the end of proceeding year . |
| 7 | The seventy five year old bachelor had finally got his girl at the second time of asking years He 'd waited half a century for this kiss with his new bride Rose , and he still could n't believe his luck . |
| 8 | The Governors referred back to Hamilton the matter of terms and of advertisements giving notice of the change , and with that was concluded the business of the last quarter of quartered years at the School . |
| 9 | Though the ruling need not be implemented until accounting years ending on or after 22 June , ScottishPower has chosen to adopt the published ruling immediately — causing a net pre-tax charge in the year to March 1993 of £10.4 million . |
| 10 | INVESTORS who fear that membership of the European Monetary System will not prevent a resurgence of inflation in coming years should examine the virtues of index-linked gilts . |
| 11 | They will gain from the ability to buy cheap imported coal in coming years . |
| 12 | This means that fishing quotas are likely to fall in coming years in order to preserve the long-term future of the fisheries . |
| 13 | In coming years , British viewers will have an increasing choice of channels and programmes . |
| 14 | Increasing longevity and low birth rates ( 1.7 children per woman ) also mean that fewer young workers will enter the labour force in coming years . |
| 15 | One can only hope that , in coming years , politicians , bureaucrats and the teaching profession itself will be able to avoid being drawn into that particular trap . |
| 16 | Japan will also see a rising number of corporate-bond issues in coming years , which may well serve to put further upward pressure on bond yields regardless of interest-rate developments . |
| 17 | But this shift should be seen in the context of the total demands of the elderly on resources which appears not to have risen so fast ; they have so far not been a dependent burden of significant dimensions despite their growing numbers , though as Thomson points out , this could change in coming years . |
| 18 | On the other hand more retired people will have greater power than before as consumers in coming years . |
| 19 | Despite the developments achieved already , much work remains to be done in this area and it will have growing importance in coming years . |
| 20 | Still , the sums being disbursed have clearly helped many and the Government hopes to extend the lending ceiling in coming years . |
| 21 | In coming years we have a unique opportunity to see mechanisms of social and political development at work . |
| 22 | In 1992/93 the maximum loan was £715 and this can be expected to increase in real terms in coming years ; at the same time , the level of the maximum maintenance grant and parental contribution has been frozen at 1990/91 levels . |
| 23 | Would you like to , to explain what from strength to strength means or whether I 've got my figures wrong erm a and , and perhaps give an idea of what from strength to strength will mean in coming years ? |
| 24 | It seems likely that examples of such flows will multiply in coming years . |
| 25 | There is reason to hope that in coming years the fields of pronunciation teaching and of experimental phonetics will become much more closely linked . |
| 26 | Some commentators suggest that it represents a key political platform for the government in coming years . |
| 27 | Those different effects in following years in relation to we got . |
| 28 | The contrast in ensuring years between the success of the Company and the problem-ridden Corporation trams , made a take-over desirable when the 21-year lease on the street track expired . |
| 29 | Since then , things have changed but fractionally , many classic rock records still having failed to be recognised in ensuring years . |
| 30 | New customs duties for imports introduced on Sept. 1 had the effect of replacing most of Israel 's non-tariff barriers with higher import tariffs ( which would decrease annually over coming years ) . |