Example sentences of "[vb pp] by years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Angel One was saved only by his superb reflexes , honed by years of martial arts training . |
| 2 | Its publication was preceded by years of painstaking preparation , with nation-wide workshops and promotional material . |
| 3 | Tomorrow night on Central News we have a special report from Aghanistan , a country devastated by years of civil war and grinding poverty . |
| 4 | His self-discipline had been forged and tempered by years of training . |
| 5 | Its hanging brass handles were damaged and tarnished , its once polished top ruined by years of misuse . |
| 6 | The party leader , Kurt Schumacher , was a strong-minded social reformer and anti-communist , but his energies had been sapped by years in concentration camps under the Nazis , he refused to co-operate with ‘ bourgeois ’ political parties or the Catholic Church , and he had an abrasive , intolerant personal manner . |
| 7 | Now they have been washed by years of rain into earthy camouflage patterns . |
| 8 | Glycaemic control was significantly related to the disease process as measured by years since diagnosis , treatment group , and number of diabetes related clinical events . |
| 9 | The Government had two objectives : first to improve the country 's relations with the Community , damaged by years of squabbling over the Community 's demonstrably unfair agricultural and budgetary mechanisms , which had severely disadvantaged Britain , and , second , to fulfil what was understood to be the explicit goal of the Treaty of Rome , the establishment of a free trade zone based upon economic co-operation between member states . |
| 10 | Studies have indicated that the weight conscious , brainwashed by years of ‘ cut out those carbohydrates ’ advice , tend to avoid the bread and potatoes which supply a good deal of the fibre in most people 's diets . |
| 11 | She picked up her discarded clothes and threw them into a small bureau , scratched and marked by years of neglect . |
| 12 | He was not a man to whom gracious speech came easily and his cheeks , roughened and weathered by years of riding on the open moor , twitched as he sought for words . |
| 13 | Alexander 's death was followed by years of savate internecine fighting between his own commanders . |
| 14 | The picture is one of a slow start followed by years of sustained rapid growth . |
| 15 | The first is a build-up of paint on the window and its frame , caused by years of redecoration . |
| 16 | The condition was possibly caused by years spent under bright stage lights . |
| 17 | It found that the Health and Safety Executive , West Yorkshire County Council , the Fire Brigade and Bradford City football club were all aware of the fire hazard caused by years of accumulated rubbish , yet nothing was done to eliminate it . |
| 18 | Recent reports issued by the Russian government reveal the environmental devastation caused by years of rapid industrialisation , nuclear testing and uncontrolled dumping of toxic wastes . |
| 19 | It served , however only to churn up the sodden land , whose drainage system had long since been destroyed by years of artillery fire , into a vast morass of craters filled with water , through which the British were expected to advance . |
| 20 | Furthermore , while ‘ logically ’ it might appear that at least from summer 1941 only Hitler could be blamed for the extension and prolongation of the war , a sufficient platform had been constructed by years of propaganda and ideological indoctrination to buttress the transfer of the blame to Germany 's external enemies — the Bolsheviks , the Jews , the British , the Americans — or to internal incompetence , naturally stopping short of the Führer , as when Field Marshal von Brauchitsch was made the scapegoat for mistakes in strategy and provisioning on the eastern Front in the winter of 1941–2 . |
| 21 | Her mother 's hair was now completely white , her shoulders bent under the load of time , her face deeply etched by years of trial … . |
| 22 | He passed on his concern in a letter to Prince , who , as the ever-nervous and expectant recipient , was clearly in a state of anguish about it : ‘ I regret you should have determined upon embarking any portion of your Property in V.D.L. because from the ignorance of the parties whose names you mention , I fear least they should turn out Sharks and it would be a source of deep mortification to me were you by these means to lose any portion of the advantages you have obtained by years of anxiety and deep mental study . ’ |
| 23 | Plagued by years of opencast development in their areas some local communities have been able to mount an effective campaign against individual applications . |
| 24 | Enervated by years of living fat and happy off a cosy domestic market , firms did not respond to price cuts by trying harder to export , as health bureaucrats had hoped . |
| 25 | The literary bias of British film reviewing has rarely been quite so plainly stated — Coward is the established name , his reputation guaranteed by years of theatrical success , hence he takes precedence over the mere maker of pictures . |
| 26 | Although we would urge a total abandonment of an age limitation , those of us wearied by years of banging heads against , not so much the walls , as the balloons of officialdom ( for , eventually , walls splinter a trifle , whereas balloons bulge inwards and then return to their old shape ) , understand that we must count our blessings in small twopenny-pockets . |
| 27 | These were acknowledged publicly by no less a figure than a former Prime Minister , W.L. MacKenzie King , at the communal celebrations of Lyon 's 60th birthday and his 35th anniversary of engagement in social interests , as well as those of his friend of many years ( to whom Lyon Cohen had diverted the honour of being invited to be the Member of Parliament several years before ) , Sir Samuel W. Jacobs , KC : ‘ Our friend finds himself today , ’ , commented Jacobs , ‘ the acknowledged leader of Jewry in Canada , a position acquired by years of self-denying effort … respected by his own , and also by the larger community in which we dwell . ’ |
| 28 | What that would show for the 1980s is that general insurance companies have added slightly to their stock of UK company securities , years of sales being just outweighed by years of purchases . |