Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [adj] years [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trouble was that after they were born , children had to wait for six years before they could be sent to school and forgotten for most of the day . |
| 2 | Though debt-for-equity swaps represent one way for banks to recover part of their developing country debt exposure , they still stand to lose money and look likely to have to wait for some years before they can cash in their equity stakes . |
| 3 | This method has been taught for many years and I do not think that pilots who have learned to do it this way need bother to change . |
| 4 | Five Highers , Jordanhill , married in the University Chapel to an awful nice electrical engineer who would n't say boo , taught for two years till she got her parchment before starting a family . |
| 5 | Suddenly there was work for everybody and the deaf community took full advantage of this change of climate , as reported in the 1944 annual report : The effect of the war on industry has given the deaf and dumb opportunities such as they had never enjoyed for many years and it is with great pleasure that the committee places on record the excellent work the deaf Have done . |
| 6 | In fact , I did n't know until recent years that it was a person at Philips Records who in fact mentioned DeFries to David , and when he did meet DeFries , Angela was very much in favour of David moving from me to him . |
| 7 | ‘ Without Roland Garros , French tennis could never have developed in the way it has over recent years and we would never have won the Davis Cup , which has given us all such a tremendous boost . ’ |
| 8 | I believed for many years that I could move towards the future and leave the past behind , that there was no need for me to return home . |
| 9 | He is well qualified to do the job he has done for many years and we will continue to employ him at races . ’ |
| 10 | He is well qualified to do the job he has done for many years and we will continue to employ him at races . ’ |
| 11 | He was fifty when his rise to prominence began soon after the accession of Amenophis III , whom he was to serve for thirty years before he died at the age of eighty . |
| 12 | The retired docker 's health has suffered in recent years and he has trouble getting up the stairs at their maisonette . |
| 13 | The retired docker 's health has suffered in recent years and he has trouble getting up the stairs at their maisonette . |
| 14 | ‘ I have been going for 18 years and you get fan-tastic value for money , ’ he said . |
| 15 | All required records must be preserved for three years if it is a private company or for six years if it is a public one . |
| 16 | But we shall see in 200 years if I am right . ’ |
| 17 | It saved two years repayments at the end of the mortgage , because endowments matured here , saving those last two years , purely because we started paying in two years before we actually took the mortgage out . |
| 18 | Add to this the rapid growth in the numbers of expeditions , climbers and trekkers which has occurred in recent years and it is not surprising that the problem has reached massive proportions despite the availability of new access sites from Tibet which was opened to climbers in 1980 . |
| 19 | It challenges some of the teaching methods that have been used in recent years and it suggests that schools should concentrate on commonsense , practical teaching . |
| 20 | I 've smoked for sixty years and I can not change now . ’ |
| 21 | Compared with five years before it was a raging torrent . |
| 22 | Smith and Jacobson ( 1988 ) report that expectation of life at birth for a male born in England and Wales in 1983/84 was 71.3 years compared with 69.9 years if he was born in Scotland . |
| 23 | I draw his attention to the fact that we are now net exporters of televisions whereas we were net importers under the Labour party and to the fact that motor output has been expanding in recent years whereas it was declining under Labour . |
| 24 | It is getting toward 70 years since I attended the lectures of that egregious humbug ‘ Tubby ’ Radcliffe at the Tech ( now UMIST ) . |
| 25 | I 'm hearing things now that I have not heard in fifteen years that I 've been on this County Council and I would suggest erm to Mr that when he 's talking about things that this County Council ought to print , and I think the one suggestion he came up with is very sensible , he could perhaps follow up with a catalogue of those things which he considers need doing that after a hundred years have not been done . |
| 26 | Crosby in 1981 was a classic example : the voters lost a man they had known for thirty years and they did n't know who to vote for instead . |
| 27 | They quote an Under Secretary commenting upon informal communications networks : ‘ Some of these people I 've known for twenty-five years and we can of course communicate with each other almost in code . ’ |
| 28 | It was the room they had shared for 30 years since they had moved in to claim his inheritance . |
| 29 | " And we worked for many years before we collected a single cup of rubber , do you hear ? |
| 30 | Stanley will serve for two years and we all wish him well . |