Example sentences of "[det] years it " in BNC.
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1 | Some years it was bad , other years not so bad . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | The economy has been so strong in the last few years it 's going to take a lot to bring it down . ’ |
6 | And : ‘ What keeps Las Vegas powerful is every few years it becomes more fabulous and more outrageous . ’ |
7 | 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 . |
8 | Within a few years it was the Guns Mill Paper Company . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | For a few years it would undoubtedly be more expensive to cable Britain with optical-fibre links directly into the home . |
12 | In the past few years it has suffered from serious errors in planning and a lack of investment . |
13 | But in a few years it could find applications in the long-term treatment of parasitic diseases , and even as a contraceptive pill . |
14 | In the last few years it has become clear that many other churches are working in this way in every denomination . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 ’ . |
19 | 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 ’ . |
20 | ‘ Naturally these past few years it has n't been worn . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | And for a few years it had just about done so . |
23 | Over the past few years it has become increasingly evident that the UK is witnessing a transformation in dominant household forms . |
24 | For a few years it has a monopoly in world markets and a good order book . |
25 | For a few years it has a monopoly in world markets and a good order book . |
26 | ’ It is already possible to apply ( gene analysis ) methods for the early foetal diagnosis of these disorders ( haemophilia and other anaemias ) , and over the next few years it may even be possible to replace defective genes ’ , wrote the geneticist David Weatherall in an article on the new Institute for Molecular Medicine in Oxford . |
27 | Accreditation was not a concept that had gained currency in Britain at this time , and in developments over the next few years it was to receive a variety of interpretations in British further and higher education . |
28 | In the past few years it has become clear that the small intestine is also damaged by NSAIDs . |
29 | League is concerned , is the amount of money coming into the game and the danger that over a few years it could widen the division between the haves and the have-nots . |
30 | ‘ Over the past few years it 's been your petal frilly or your heart-shaped frilly . |