Example sentences of "years [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A great deal has been said and written over the past two years about East European grandees being given back their property , but reality lags behind the talk . |
| 2 | So much has been written in recent years about Ralph Sarich 's Orbital two-stroke engine that our award for technical innovation might appear somewhat tardy . |
| 3 | We supplied information to different revolutionary groups for many years about Devraux 's work for the Surete . |
| 4 | Only Croner can make you this promise , which is backed by our considerable expertise gained over 50 years as Britain 's leading loose-leaf publisher . |
| 5 | Andrew Warrender has retired after 6 years as SCA Treasurer . |
| 6 | Graham Gooch , averaging 70 during his years as England skipper , had another solid summer — with successful Essex too — but he has competition from the likes of Alec Stewart and David Gower . |
| 7 | Graham Gooch , averaging 70 during his years as England skipper , had another solid summer — with successful Essex too — but he has plenty of competition from the likes of Alec Stewart and the graceful David Gower . |
| 8 | After five years as Sheffield United boss , he cemented his love of Bramall Lane and his adopted county by signing a new three-year contract this summer . |
| 9 | His father having died in 1216 , Peter spent many years as William 's ward , and became a lifelong friend of his son , Walter de Cantilupe [ q.v. ] , bishop of Worcester from 1238 to 1265 . |
| 10 | But Lord Donaldson paid tribute to Lord Lane and defended his performance during 12 years as Lord Chief Justice . |
| 11 | Jim Kelly ( left ) and John Paterson ( right ) stand on either side of their workmate , David Mitchell , who retired in September after twenty-seven years as Boilerman . |
| 12 | It is within United 's reach to complete a most remarkable two years between May 1990 and May 1992 by landing all three domestic trophies and the European Cup-Winners ' Cup . |
| 13 | The tests soured relations for many years between France and the South Pacific Forum , which groups Australia , New Zealand and most Pacific island territories . |
| 14 | There was significant symbolic value attached to the talks as the first meeting in 30 years between Nelson Mandela , the ANC deputy president , and Chief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi , leader of Inkatha , who had once been fellow students at university , and were now the country 's two most influential black leaders . |
| 15 | In the years between Swann and Burnage the media had in any case had a field day . |
| 16 | But in the years between Jane Austen 's death and the publication of Boz , the growth of interest in the actual past , promoted partly by the novels of Scott , began to disturb this peaceful co-existence by taking Gothic style more seriously — an alteration in attitude which can be illustrated by the difference between a Gothic novel like Udolpho , where ancient buildings are impressionistic , and an historical novel like Ivanhoe ( 1819 ) , rooted in fact and actual place . |
| 17 | Callaghan in the three years between April 1976 and April 1979 commissioned about 160 ad hoc committees , a similar growth rate to Attlee 's . |
| 18 | The turning point , the moment when the era rightly began , came during those years between America 's Sixties triumph — Neil Armstrong 's first footsteps on the Sea of Tranquillity in 1969 — and that most doleful moment of the Seventies , when the last US Marines were evacuated from the roof of the embassy in Saigon in 1975 . |
| 19 | After retiring from Oxford in 1964 , he settled in Israel and divided his last years between New York , where he was visiting professor at Queens ' College in City University and Stern College , and Jerusalem . |
| 20 | Just how complicated a problem this may turn out to be is indicated by the following quotations from the opening paragraphs of the first two chapters of Christine Hugh-Jones ' very remarkable book From the Milk River , which is a study of Pira-pirana Indians living in the Vaupes region of Colombia , as viewed from the perspective of the inhabitants of a single longhouse community in which she and her husband resided for two years between September 1968 and December 1970 : |
| 21 | It is not impossible , for example , that Abdulkerim and Molla Arab served successively as Mufti in the years between Fahreddin Acemi 's death and Molla Husrev 's return from Bursa . |
| 22 | His reputation dwindled in the shadow of his brother 's achievements during the years between Marconi and World War I , and although his journalism remained incisive , it was increasingly tainted with bitterness at the perceived economic and political decay of Edwardian England . |
| 23 | Taking account too of the closure of the News Chronicle , the Sunday Dispatch and several other Sundays following the Kemsley sale , five out of twelve dailies and six out of eleven Sundays — half the entire national press — saw their ownership , existence or status ( as a ‘ national ’ ) affected during less than two years between August 1959 and June 1961 . |
| 24 | But I have more chance of improving that than knocking 10 years off Gregory or adding speed to Fox . |
| 25 | He then worked for three years for Alexander Cowan & Co. at Musselburgh Paper Mills . |
| 26 | It took two years for Rome to recover Britain and repair its defences . |
| 27 | Four years for New York 's hotel queen . |
| 28 | These range from a matter of hours to thirty years for Caesium 137 and 24,000 years for Plutonium 239 . |
| 29 | It took four years for Edouard to discover the one aspect of his life the columnists had never suspected : he was lonely . |
| 30 | Mrs Bottomley stressed her commitment to the Patient 's Charter , which has already eliminated almost all waits of more than two years for NHS operations . |