Example sentences of "[prep] years [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After years he had lost his oldest and best friend but in a way he had always despised friendship ; families were what mattered , more particularly that larger version of himself — his family ; and while seated in the same scheming fury he saw each individual member gradually slipping away out of his reach . |
| 2 | I could not help feeling that this particular meeting of ours proved a milestone , at least for me ; and thereafter I found it easier to get through to him , as in after years I sometimes needed to do , on that wavelength . |
| 3 | For their second teaching practice the students will gain experience of years one to three in schools involved in the first three levels of the French for Communication project . |
| 4 | After a couple of years they adopted a child which they named Peggy , of whom he was very fond . |
| 5 | As couples live together over a period of years they will find more and more areas where decisions can be made without consultation because they will understand a lot of each other 's interests and desires . |
| 6 | Over the past couple of years they have waited patiently while the Microsoft and IBM products converged . |
| 7 | These entries are reminiscent of the leases mentioned in some probate inventories , the wording of which occasionally implies that they were valued on the basis of the number of years they still had to run , calculated perhaps as a proportion of the original fines . |
| 8 | After a couple of years they would be exchanged for someone else of sufficiently high position . |
| 9 | Bees navigate using the sun , and for millions of years they have used polarised light to locate their guide on cloudy days . |
| 10 | For a number of years they have been producing the yachts in their range in both standard and Master versions , the latter being more luxuriously appointed and intended for private ownership . |
| 11 | In addition the following details were known about each driver : age , sex , annual mileage , and the number of years they had held a driving licence . |
| 12 | With the passing of years they now have the help of their daughter Anne and son-in-law Hugh . |
| 13 | For a number of years they did have but er |
| 14 | integrating cos squared just to get to that stage they had thousands of years they were full time professionals did nothing else but it . |
| 15 | 205(1) ( xxvii ) " Term of years absolute " means a term of years ( taking effect either in possession or in reversion whether or not at a rent ) with or without impeachment for waste , subject or not to another legal estate , and either certain or liable to determination by notice , re-entry , operation of law , or by a provision for cesser on redemption , or in any other event ( other than the dropping of a life , or the determination of a determinable life interest ) ; but does not include any term of years determinable with life or lives or with the cesser of a determinable life interest , nor , if created after the commencement of this Act , a term of years which is not expressed to take |
| 16 | Using Nirex 's own figures , the report concludes that groundwater contaminated by the radioactive waste could reach the surface within 300 years , not the tens of thousands of years which the company has claimed . |
| 17 | Where a lease creates a term of years which is expressed to run from some date earlier than that of the execution of the lease , the term created will be a term which begins on the date the lease is executed , and not the earlier date . |
| 18 | Er and it 's a force commitment it is n't I mean short of saving up over a period of years which we are not allowed to do |
| 19 | Over the past couple of years we have seen application tools embrace the facilities offered by the Windows front end or graphics user interfaces ( GUIs ) . |
| 20 | In a couple of years we 'll be outnumbered . ’ |
| 21 | He suggests the millions of years we spent as reptiles are what have kept the myth of the dragon alive in the art and literature of the world , and this theory also has a physiological basis . |
| 22 | Er , you know , saying that we 've firmed up the policy now , when erm I think a couple of years we were perhaps somewhere different . |
| 23 | One thing we did discuss at committee but I think it ought to be put to the A G M we discussed the increase in the cost of er , admission erm we held our prices down for at least a couple of years we had a heavy outlay on cushions I do feel that erm we ought to put in to the meeting what we discussed at committee that be raised from two fifty and one twenty five to three pounds and two pounds for the concessions including students and erm the youngsters . |
| 24 | In a few hundreds , or at most thousands , of years we have gone from wolf to Pekinese , Bulldog , Chihuahua and Saint Bernard . |
| 25 | Every couple of years we would rewrite the address book , leaving out those items not referenced in the index and up-date the index ( or write another one ) . |
| 26 | OVER the last number of years we , the Liverpool fans , have been accused by many ( including TTW&R ) of being obsessed with Manchester United . |
| 27 | For a number of years we have been trying to upgrade the quality of our business , in terms of the technical content of products , the level of design we build in and the price we charge . |
| 28 | well erm , I 'll see if this one 's a boy , probably in a couple of years we might try for a girl , I do n't know |
| 29 | And the young lads are listening and learning erm so hopefully , in a couple of years we 'll have a good side over here . |
| 30 | You ca n't you ca n't and that 's what people thought for thousands of years lots of years . |