Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adj] years of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A recent exhibition of Mills and Boon front covers over seventy-five years of publishing demonstrates that the packaging of their company image , ‘ the rose of romance ’ , has not varied very much since . |
| 2 | But the little boy , having missed so many years of schooling , was backward in his lessons , and Edouard feared that he would be teased . |
| 3 | The proportion of children aged 10 or over at adoption , however , has increased considerably since 1976 ( from 20 per cent to 28 per cent ) while the proportion of infants adopted under two years of age has decreased slightly ( from 26 to 25 percent ) ( Central Statistical Office , 1988 ) . |
| 4 | In 1715 , in return for writing off two years of annuity payments worth something over £1 million , the government permitted it a fresh share issue which brought its capital up to £10 million , about half of the entire joint-stock capital in the country . |
| 5 | This select cell and others knew the most experienced " bomber barons " who had endured nearly three years of bombing , but were now with a " three ringed " voice . |
| 6 | But Bill says no amount of money can truly compensate for what he describes as three years of pain . |
| 7 | The woman who died of cancer and left the poems expressing her soul 's pain written over twenty years of marriage on the kitchen window sill , for her husband to find , was saying that no one in that house had respected her pain sufficiently to share it . |
| 8 | ‘ I thought I might have hurt you — God knows I tried to be careful , but you seem to have this knack of wiping out twenty-five years of control and finesse with a single touch . ’ |
| 9 | Each level should cover roughly two years of work . |
| 10 | Half the remainder die in old age , losing about eight years of life . |
| 11 | It took over two years of treatment and months of distress before 28-year-old Bethan Roberts found a cure for acne |
| 12 | Amy Brennan 's seen cleaning methods come and go over thirty years of service |
| 13 | Taylor long ago argued that the advantages emerged over several years of contact and that in an emergency most experienced doctors could successfully manage their patient 's problem . |
| 14 | On March 25 the government and the Unified Movements and Fronts of Azawad , representing Tuareg rebels , reached a peace pact to end almost two years of fighting . |
| 15 | The talks failed to produce an agreement to end almost 30 years of guerrilla war ; both sides remained divided on the scope and location of the areas to which the guerrillas would be restricted prior to a ceasefire coming into operation . |
| 16 | Most of all she found there strong support for the mutually independent role of husband and wife that she and Edward had developed over two years of frustration and parental disapproval . |
| 17 | Seagate Technology Inc says it has reached a multi-million dollar agreement with Corning Inc which will enable it to produce a hard disk drive that is sturdier and stores more than conventional drives : it will use Corning' glass-ceramic dubbed Memcor and developed over six years of research and development ; shipments of the material , which is thinner , stronger and more rugged than traditional aluminium substrates , and enables the recording head to be placed much closer to the surface of the disk , will begin shortly and output of drives will start in the third quarter . |
| 18 | News of the windfall came just after the couple chalked up 40 years of marriage . |
| 19 | But the very thoroughness with which British industry had been converted to war work , the degree to which overseas investment had been sold to pay for the war effort , and the war-weariness accumulated over six years of privation created a twin dilemma : public expectations of a better post-war world had increased in reverse proportion to the capacity of the British economy to finance it . |
| 20 | With the flight into Cosford on July 27 , WL679 marked the end of an era that stretched over 43 years of sterling service for the type . |
| 21 | Their knowledge ( rules , facts and ideas ) has been acquired by study , investigation , observation and experience over many years of work in a particular domain , i.e. maintenance of a certain type of aircraft system/equipment . |
| 22 | Two Sustrans sculptures on the Edinburgh — Glasgow cycle route were ceremoniously ‘ unveiled ’ during the summer by veteran CTC members Ted Zoller and Walter Browne , who have between them clocked up 150 years of membership of the club . |
| 23 | She watched the other people , and wondered how many years of observation it would take her to learn to distinguish the tarts from the students , for there were clearly some of each within her range . |
| 24 | Prout have over forty years of experience in design and construction of catamarans and as one would expect , superb attention has been paid to even the smallest detail making her comfortable and workable . |