Example sentences of "[det] years we " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some years we prospered , until the slump of 1930 , followed by another setback in 1933 , when the Nazis first appeared , and the final blow when the World War II commenced . |
| 2 | And we s we had kept on making this , maybe we , some years we would sell about ten of them . |
| 3 | Within a few years we will see the majority of UK companies having smoking policies . ’ |
| 4 | During the past few years we have been almost suffocated under a pile of reminiscences . |
| 5 | In the past few years we have seen conservatories grow in popularity . |
| 6 | Over the next few years we want to see a major reform which will help provide what the public wants and needs : a visible , local police presence . |
| 7 | I believe it is quite possible that within the next few years we might see European legislation which will not only follow that of the UK in prohibiting lead fishing weights but also outlaw the use of lead in cartridges . |
| 8 | Over the past few years we have been working on such an account , and in this paper we focus on the implications of this account for a central tenet of the mental models approach : that the mental model of the text so far provides ( part of the context for the interpretation of the current sentence or clause . |
| 9 | In the last few years we have been promised ( and in the UK have never actually been given ) ready-made video programmes on EVR , requiring one set of equipment , and on videodisc , requiring another . |
| 10 | Even so , during the past few years we have seen some large stores opening on Sundays , in apparent defiance of the law . |
| 11 | Over the past few years we have created a substantial oil and gas exploration and production company through a combination of exploration , development and acquisition . |
| 12 | Over the next few years we were to see the terminal in all its stages of construction on our various visits to Scapa Flow and we were to become very familiar with Flotta not only in the earlier days , but later when the terminal was operational and our crews began their real work of checking the large tankers . |
| 13 | Over the last few years we had worked out a system of radio communication and coded grid references for use in joint exercises and actual operations against smuggling . |
| 14 | And now what they 're saying is , well we 'll buy out those appeals , if you had your appeal running for a few years we 'll give you five hundred pound ex gratia payment . |
| 15 | But because of increasing restrictions over the past few years we have now bought a rack to carry the bikes on the back of a car . |
| 16 | But because of increasing restrictions over the past few years we have now bought a rack to carry the bikes on the back of a car . |
| 17 | What we 've done , won one of the points I think that is worth er making perhaps is that on er over the last few years we 've seen a complete change in world export philosophy where not only are the Russians exporting all over the place but clearly er there are a number of western aircraft in different parts of the world and therefore what we have also done is to , in comparing er our aircraft against other western ones , we 've also looked at them as potential threats because it 's possible that er erm western aircraft in certain hands could end up being used against us so we have also compared those . |
| 18 | I would hope over the next few years we actually do move towards increasing towards that but I think we will have some severe difficulties , particularly with the planning department where large numbers of members of the public do visit the area . |
| 19 | ‘ For the last few years we have been seriously handicapped by the fact that our second team have been unable to compete regularly against quality opposition . |
| 20 | Secretary Gordon Dixon explained : ‘ Over the past few years we have given cheques to various charities including Childen in Need and this year it was decided to send the proceeds of our charity drive to the Darlington and District Hospice . |
| 21 | In the space of a few years we had Eldon Square in Newcastle , the Cleveland Centre in Middlesbrough , Milburngate in Durham , where you could stroll heedless of weather and traffic . |
| 22 | Over the next few years we are projecting very high rates of growth , not less than double and up to three times the rate of inflation . |
| 23 | but now this last few years we , it 's a lot warmer winter than we , than we remember at the beginning |
| 24 | Certainly over the years the the major proportion of our fire fighting , in terms of secondary fires , what we term secondary fires , the bonfires , was always concentrated around this period and going back quite a few years we used to have special appliances put on standby , extra crews and so on . |
| 25 | And in the past few years we 've had to go into clearing as most other universities would do . |
| 26 | So now after all these years we are taking He Pito Whakaatu i Te Noho a Te Maori i Te Awa o Whanganui ( Scenes of Maori Life on The Whanganui River ) , made in 1921 , back to Koroniti . |
| 27 | During these years we are still on the high plateau of Wordsworth 's poetic achievement . |
| 28 | Many agree that for too many years we have been ‘ data rich ’ but not capable of computerising the knowledge and experience of highly skilled maintenance engineers . |
| 29 | For many years we in Britain thought of church growth as building bigger buildings for more people . |
| 30 | For many years we rarely saw any wild-caught Cichlasoma , but this is no longer the case . |