Example sentences of "of some years " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am a hobbyist of some years standing and I have had my Hatchetfish for over two years since they were no bigger than ½ pieces . |
| 2 | These are people who have been restored to membership after a lapse of some years . |
| 3 | I WAS impressed by Billy McKenna 's powerful article , ‘ Pushing up the daffodils in Brazil ’ and horrified — even as an Amnesty International member of some years ' standing — to read of the brutality meted out to Antonio Gilvan da Cruz and others . |
| 4 | After a delay of some years there is now some momentum behind the production of a guidebook for the Clwyd Limestone area . |
| 5 | Indeed , throughout the 1960s successive governments were struggling to balance the books and it was rather a case of some years being less bad than others . |
| 6 | Although the first fruits of this decision took place in l982 , the writing had been on the wall , and read by us many years before that , and it took a period of some years to find a way of moving out of polythene , which was not only ICI 's own proud invention , but an area where we had been acknowledged world leaders for many years . |
| 7 | Enormous growth in this business occurred through the substitution phase and for a period of some years the business was extremely profitable . |
| 8 | It is renewed ( in the sequel , Rupert of Hentzau ) for a further period when , after an interval of some years , the machinations of Michael 's nephew Rupert lead to the King 's death and loyal Sapt appeals to Rassendyll once more for help . |
| 9 | Formed to fill a long-standing local need , ‘ Cheshire Lines ’ is the culmination of some years of suggestions and discussions by quite a number of railway enthusiasts in the Stockport area . |
| 10 | Tower Hamlets , acting under paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to the Act of 1967 , required Chetnik to pay rates on the buildings over a period of some years during which they were unoccupied because tenants could not be found . |
| 11 | She still dealt in stolen goods when she got the chance , but the police were less interested in stolen goods than they had been in the more law-abiding times of some years before . |
| 12 | At the end of some years of this ding-dong invention and counter-invention , the current version of both the missile and its antidote will have attained a very high degree of sophistication . |
| 13 | She liked Spruce , a colleague of some years now . |
| 14 | My name is Mr , I am an ordinary shareholder of some years ' standing . |
| 15 | This assumes a gap of some years after full time schooling . |
| 16 | There 's a common interest of course of avoiding war for most people anyway , but there 's also a common interest we know related to environmental issues and that can not be dealt with by each country , each country may have unique environmental problems but environmental problems straddle erm boundaries of countries as we saw from the Chernobyl problem of some years ago . |
| 17 | And at the Liverpool Empire , London Contemporary Dance arrive back in the city tomorrow after an absence of some years . |