Example sentences of "years [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today , a dozen veteran lumberjills were reunited 50 years on at Westonbirt Arboretum near Tetbury , where some of them had worked . |
| 2 | It might add a few more years on to his life . |
| 3 | The opening scenes are particularly memorable : primitive apes ( men in monkey suits ) struggle against a rival tribe of predators in front of an open , harsh background ( projected ) until one of them ‘ invents ’ the first weapon in striking an enemy with a large bone , which , thrown up spiralling into the air , ‘ becomes ’ in the next shot a spacecraft four million years on in time . |
| 4 | ‘ The early Ozs were an uncomfortable hybrid of satire , Sunday journalism , and pirated underground tit-bits ’ , wrote Neville four years on in Playpower . |
| 5 | Three years on from the first album , Neneh admits that ‘ the till bells are ringing empty . |
| 6 | Five years on from the original 1988 Wagner Report , the group made ten recommendations for the future beginning with the establishment of a new body to take over the group 's function . |
| 7 | Today , some five years on from the introduction of Canon 's first mass-market page printing engine , the world no longer revolves around 300dpi . |
| 8 | Some three years on from that initial burst of enthusiasm and the corresponding outcry from the professional market much has changed . |
| 9 | Five years on from The Life And Loves Of A She-Devil , Julie is still recognised as Ruth , the dowdy , downtrodden housewife who adopted a wide range of disguises and underwent major plastic surgery to wreak revenge on her unfaithful husband , played by Dennis Waterman . |
| 10 | One hundred and fifty-five years on from Darwin 's marital dilemma , the major pre-occupation that gave rise to the organization of the conference to which this paper is submitted , is a marriage of a different sort : the study of history and the use of information technology . |
| 11 | sure , there may be some thinking that , there may also though be er if you move through to the forties you 're , y you 're twenty years on from the nineteen twenties , you , you 've had and you 've had deterioration in agricultural conditions er as , as we 've seen you 've got erm increasing landlord absenteeism , you , you 've got a downward , an upward pressure on rent in terms of how much was having to be paid in real terms , all of those things might have come together to , to , to push the peasant over and to push him outside . |
| 12 | Its a new song on a new video … and seven years on from Dr Hook … |
| 13 | These new ones obviously , five years on from the other models , they offer a lot more technology . |
| 14 | This advice I took seriously ; and Myra and I spent the next ten years mostly in Britain . |
| 15 | There was more than one couple in his parish who had communicated for years only by note or through neighbours . |
| 16 | This meant it was available for the first two years only in London and the South-East and to people who bothered to fit a new aerial . |
| 17 | Until comparatively recently there was a general belief or tacit agreement within the community that the later years of life were a time of " all passion spent " — that sex stopped or should stop with the menopause in women and that it continued into later years only in old men who were awarded the epithet " dirty " . |
| 18 | City , to the embarrassment of many Maine Road supporters , brought a first title in 25 years tantalisingly within reach of their neighbours by thrashing Leeds United on Saturday . |
| 19 | Three or four years perhaps at a time . |
| 20 | That means that the reduction in the rent applied throughout the years down to the end of 1944 , but early in 1945 it is plain that the flats were fully let , and , indeed the rents received from them ( many of them not being affected by the Rent Restrictions Acts ) , were increased beyond the figure at which it was originally contemplated that they would be let . |
| 21 | Born in Germany and raised around the Chiltern Hills , Robert is no ‘ fair dinkum ’ Aussie , but holds dual citizenship after about 10 years down under . |
| 22 | Indeed , they boasted proudly that retail electricity prices had risen more slowly than the retail price index in general : although their own tariffs had risen faster , average consumption had gone up and the extra kWh had been sold at the lower incremental charges of two-part or block tariffs , thus bringing the average domestic price in their first ten years down by a fifth in real terms . |
| 23 | The main reductions are for slaughter cattle , with the number of those aged more than two years down by 13pc and the total of those aged between one and two years down by 5pc . |
| 24 | The main reductions are for slaughter cattle , with the number of those aged more than two years down by 13pc and the total of those aged between one and two years down by 5pc . |
| 25 | A COMMITTED Colchester side could not prevent National League Division One side Old Loughtonians from claiming the Essex Cup for the seventh time in ten years down in Chigwell . |
| 26 | THE controversial film Cathy Come Home is to be screened on British television for the first time in 17 years in as attempt to highlight the plight of the homeless . |
| 27 | Forget about the years in between . |
| 28 | It is as if the years in between were inhabited by fragile observations , mere scratches and traces on the skin . |
| 29 | No sex differences were found in the rate of problems but the difficulties were found to persist for one year in about two-thirds of these children and to persist for over five years in about one-third . |
| 30 | I got the impression that Uncle Phil lived with Meli for quite a few years in in Brighton for a couple of years before she died . |