Example sentences of "every few years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rendered or dashed walls can always benefit from a coat of good exterior wall paint , and surfaces which are already painted will probably need recoating every few years . |
| 2 | A perk of the office is to be invited to lunch with the Queen every few years . |
| 3 | And : ‘ What keeps Las Vegas powerful is every few years it becomes more fabulous and more outrageous . ’ |
| 4 | It is as if an economic historian , collating woeful Financial Times editorials every few years , were to conclude that there really were no business-cycles , let alone longer-term Kondratieff waves of growth and decline . |
| 5 | The problems result from long-term exposure , so families who change homes every few years may not suffer because they are exposed to levels above the action level for only a short time . |
| 6 | Every few years the industry begins a campaign , backed in medical journals , for release from its shackles . |
| 7 | Every few years , people in industrial circles murmur about what would happen if supplies were cut off , for political or commercial reasons . |
| 8 | A great deal of heart disease could also be prevented if everyone over the age of thirty-five had their blood pressure checked every few years by their doctor . |
| 9 | Normally , each hair follicle goes through a resting phase ( telogen ) every few years : hair stops growing , falls out and is n't replaced for a few months . |
| 10 | William himself , by comparison , seems to represent a remarkable degree of geographical stability : he was born and died in Islington , seems to have travelled but little , and apparently lacked either the desire or the need to move house every few years as his father had done . |
| 11 | Every few years , we make a point of replacing our aircraft with the latest the industry has to offer . |
| 12 | This interest has kept the Mannheimian tradition alive if not exactly thriving and it seems as if every few years there is a revival of interest . |
| 13 | Typical of these is the crossbill , a bird of the pine forests , which every few years arrives in Shetland in flocks . |
| 14 | It is not a bad idea to change one agency every few years . |
| 15 | Every few years the gap is filled with a useful directory , but handy as they are such titles rarely survive for more than three editions : witness the demise of the Antique Collectors ' Club 's sadly missed Guide to Specialist Nurseries . |
| 16 | Gardens which have been carefully designed and closely planted may appear to be unsuitable for additional plantings of herbs , but a herbaceous border , for instance , which needs to be re-dug every few years , with some of its incumbents divided or discarded , can well take some herbal plants , to supply flowers and/or architectural quality . |
| 17 | They need to be divided every few years , so that good flowers will continue to appear . |
| 18 | Kitty moved from hut to hut every few years . |
| 19 | The first is to design and construct local services for the majority of mentally disordered people who live in their own homes and who may use mental health services for only a few weeks every few years . |
| 20 | In Twelve Tasks for Social Democrats , issued on the day of its launch in 1981 , the Social Democratic Party made the point that in order " to secure Britain s livelihood in the nineties we need a consistent economic strategy in the eighties , one that is not disrupted every few years by a political upheaval " and by " pointless conflict , the dogma , the violent lurches of policy and class antagonisms that the two old parties have fostered " . |
| 21 | Waterlilies need lifting and dividing every few years . |
| 22 | Every few years he was rediscovered by an enthusiastic critic or gallery owner , although the success never gelled . |
| 23 | publish a new edition at appropriate intervals , for example every few years . |
| 24 | Maria paused in the doorway , surveying her new colleagues and their partners , a handful of them local people but mainly men and women from all over the English-speaking world , because radio people had a gypsy tendency to move on every few years . |
| 25 | If you have already made a will , it is worth reviewing it with your solicitor every few years . |
| 26 | TESTS — In certain circumstances tests are considered desirable every few years e.g. Hydraulic Tests , Proof Load Testing and the like . |
| 27 | Every few years new technological advances , such as the improvement in silicon chip production methods , have led to a further ten times performance improvement . |
| 28 | At a future review conference — such conferences will occur every few years in the Community — it might be desirable to go even further and press for a clause in the Community body of law that makes it crystal clear that all powers that are not specifically allocated to the Community should remain as of right with the member states , as is the case in the American constitution . |
| 29 | The government blamed the drought on El Niño , the warm ocean current which , sweeping in near the Pacific coast every few years , caused wide fluctuations in the local weather . |
| 30 | His profound sense of fatalism becomes apparent as early as the last paragraph of his very first speech : ‘ … every few years there is still a case , and as the parties tell me what the trouble is , … the thought comes in that … another lawyer , quite differently dressed , heard the same complaint and sat there as powerless as I , and watched it run its bloody course . ’ |