Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [adj] years [coord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | He is well qualified to do the job he has done for many years and we will continue to employ him at races . ’ |
| 5 | He is well qualified to do the job he has done for many years and we will continue to employ him at races . ’ |
| 6 | The retired docker 's health has suffered in recent years and he has trouble getting up the stairs at their maisonette . |
| 7 | The retired docker 's health has suffered in recent years and he has trouble getting up the stairs at their maisonette . |
| 8 | ‘ I have been going for 18 years and you get fan-tastic value for money , ’ he said . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I 've smoked for sixty years and I can not change now . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | Stanley will serve for two years and we all wish him well . |
| 15 | They demolished New Zealand 22–6 in the final for their third win in successive years and they effectively became the second underwater sevens champions since Australia in 1983 , the previous ‘ monsoon ’ tournament . |
| 16 | It gives the impression we 're prepared to spend the money and that 's what 's happened in previous years and it should n't happen . |
| 17 | The journey was the longest he had ridden for several years and he was feeling his age . |
| 18 | He has been trying for three years and he said today : ‘ Maybe it is because , God knows , I 've had some leg problems and I just can not climb those steps that easily , ’ he joked . |
| 19 | Staying first of all with the Maggses — ‘ the first parents I had in four years and I have good reason for not putting parents in inverted commas ’ — in a small country town , he learned the respectable , middle-class way to do things : |
| 20 | However , a great deal has been achieved in recent years and I shall always be proud of the Department and more importantly its employees . |
| 21 | I mean , dammit all , Charles has been working for 40 years and I 've been working for 22 ’ ) . |
| 22 | He 'd returned after two years and she was happy with that . |
| 23 | That has improved in recent years and I congratulate the local authority and the local schools and colleges on that . |
| 24 | It all sounds a bit complicated and slightly confusing , but the system has evolved over many years and it works . |