Example sentences of "years from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The recreation hall is another building used by various organisations , renovated over the years from a building of First World War days ; it also houses a twice weekly library . |
| 2 | The Life Association of Scotland 's ‘ Generator ’ offers up to 9.86% for five years from a combination of a five-year temporary annuity and a PEP or unit trust investment . |
| 3 | Barbados has benefited for a number of years from a wide treaty network , including treaties with the UK , the US and Canada . |
| 4 | Social work 's image has suffered over the past dozen or so years from a series of scandals where agencies ' failures have been highlighted , often with total disregard to their successes . |
| 5 | The public appears unaware that departments have moved over the years from a production orientation , where individuals were matched to available services , to a marketing orientation where departments seek to establish customers ' needs through individual assessment and meet them individually by care management . |
| 6 | Under the terms of the 1972 Constitution nominal political authority is held by a unicameral Supreme People 's Assembly ( SPA ) , the 615 members of which are elected every four years from a single list of candidates . |
| 7 | There is a National Assembly , to which 111 members are elected by direct universal suffrage every five years from a single list approved by the party ; a further nine deputies are appointed by the President , who also appoints the Council of Ministers . |
| 8 | Juvénal Habyarimana ) and the 70-member National Development Council ( CND ) , whose members are also directly elected for five years from a list of candidates put forward by the sole legal party , the National Revolutionary Movement for Development ( Mouvement révolutionnaire national pour le développement — MRND ) . |
| 9 | Nominal political authority is held by the unicameral People 's Assembly whose 250 members are elected every four years from a single list of candidates , and which in turn elects the Presidium and the Council of Ministers . |
| 10 | Legislative power is exercised jointly by the President and the 70-member National Development Council , whose members are also directly elected for five years from a list of candidates put forward by the sole legal party , the National Revolutionary Movement for Development ( MRND ) . |
| 11 | The decision came after a special tribunal in Peshawar had found Gilani guilty on April 24 of the misappropriation of public funds , and had disqualified him for seven years from a seat in the National Assembly . |
| 12 | Under the terms of the 1972 Constitution nominal political authority is held by a unicameral Supreme People 's Assembly ( SPA ) , the 687 members of which are elected every four years from a single list of candidates . |
| 13 | Patient 201 — died aged 74 years from a cerebrovascular accident . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's been terrible watching the change in this country over the past 20 years from a time when the consensus was that the public good was what mattered , to today when people only care about shopping . |
| 15 | The Scots , in particular , got a hell of a lot out the Empire , proportionately the Scots had many more positions of influence and profit in the Empire than we did , and I think Scottish nationalism had it 's economic roots in the last twenty/thirty years from a realization that the Empire 's over , and that great outlet for Scottish energy , education and ambition was closed , therefore the Scots are shut up in the island as they used not to be . |
| 16 | The British reader , who is likely to have been spared certain of the varieties of suffering which are spoken of in the writings of Kundera and Klima , where a joke , or no joke , or nothing whatever , can sequester you for years from the people you grew up with , is in a position , for all that , to know what Sabina means here . |
| 17 | In the report CNP calls for a number of proposals including — abandoning the 1998 deadline for renewable energy subsidies ; enabling grants to run for 15 years from the start of any one project ; issuing planning policy guidance on how to deal with planning applications , and giving encouragement to offshore wind generation which they claim could provide 50% of energy needs . |
| 18 | This is all logical enough given Fforde 's conviction that collectivism comes from ‘ areas other than the British Conservative party ’ , but Fforde seems to forget that the Conservatives were in power for fifty-five of the 100 years from the dawn of collectivism to the edge of Thatcherism , and must , therefore , have been at least partly responsible for some of Keith Joseph 's ‘ detritus ’ . |
| 19 | They were caught in large numbers for many years from the north-eastern seaboard of the US and Canada , and the Scottish islands of Orkney and Shetland . |
| 20 | This is a race ; in Europe it will have taken 35 years from the signing of the Treaty of Rome to attain the European Community 's planned single market in 1992 . |
| 21 | As a rule the right is first vested in the author , and continues for fifty years after his death ; but in the case of photographs and gramophone records the original owner of the negative or plate is treated as the author , and the right lasts for fifty years from the time when the negative or plate was made . |
| 22 | The depictions of the emperor on late Roman gold coins remained unchanged for 150 years from the mid-fourth century ( fig. 18 ) , while the appearance of kings on , say , English silver coins were virtually identical for some three centuries , from the reign of Edward I ( 1272–1307 ) to that of Henry VII ( 1485–1509 ) ( figs. 3 and 19 ) . |
| 23 | The Cluthas could carry 360 passengers , and in the 60 years from the turn of the century the entire population of Glasgow must have moved back and forwards across the Clyde annually without ever getting its collective feet wet . |
| 24 | From day to day , this is limited to sweeping or vacuuming , with a spot application of seal should wear ever become evident ( in the domestic situation , this can often be as long as five years from the date of installation ) . |
| 25 | It was 40 years from the foundation of the German Empire to the outbreak of the First World War : would a ‘ united Europe ’ last that long , and what are its prospects ? |
| 26 | By the end of the Palaeocene , only a few million years from the Cretaceous extinction of the giant reptiles , there were representatives of many of the living mammalian orders , including , for example , the primates ( the order to which man belongs ) , the carnivores ( cats dogs , and most living predators ) and the rodents ( rats , mice ) . |
| 27 | For over twenty years from the development of the first military reactors at the end of the Second World War , the nuclear industry continued to experiment and expand against a background of general public approval . |
| 28 | But he did find sodium absorption in a star 1100 light years from the Sun , and in stars that were more distant than this . |
| 29 | It was also through Bede that the AD system of reckoning the years from the Incarnation of Christ , that had been devised two centuries before by Dionysius Exiguus , was introduced into England . |
| 30 | Options will normally only be exercisable after the expiry of three years from the date of their grant by a person who remains a director or employee . |