Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] years [conj] [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Particularly Old Speckled Hen could survive ; they 've only been brewing it there in its present form for 2 years and it would be easy for us to transfer that production to their specifications using Morland 's yeast . |
| 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 | ‘ My father-in-law was well aware of all this ; it has been going on for some years but he would not do what was necessary to right the situation , that is cut out the loss makers and , perhaps , substitute other lines — stationery , office equipment , videos or any other line compatible with the book trade . ’ |
| 4 | Margaret was in the Air Force for some years but I could n't say what they did for work . |
| 5 | The rate of change in media will continue at this pace for some years and we can take nothing for granted . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They have n't been champions for 26 years and it could be another 26 before they win it again . |
| 8 | Thus , where landlords were entitled to determine a twenty-one year lease " at the expiration of fourteen years if they shall require the premises for the purposes of a business carried on by them " it was held to be sufficient for them to show that they would need at least part of the premises before the date on which the lease would otherwise have expired by effluxion of time ( Parkinson v Barclays Bank Ltd [ 1951 ] 1 KB 368 ) . |
| 9 | The Detectives , which pulled in bumper viewing figures when it was shown on BBC earlier this year , was a revelation for Jasper whose stand-up routines of recent years if I can be frank were dire . |
| 10 | ( Perhaps their paintings said things to one another during these years that they could never say in person . ) |
| 11 | I 've smoked for sixty years and I can not change now . ’ |
| 12 | But he added : ‘ I 've been around for 30-odd years so I 'd like to it was down to all my TV work . |
| 13 | I 've been working here for fourteen years but I ca n't buy postage stamps without his say-so . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | erm as many people here know and like them I have worked in a voluntary capacity and one way or another in this theatre for many years and we ca n't do without it we do n't want to see it close or any of those drastic things . |
| 16 | ‘ We have managed to keep relations very harmonious for many years and we will not let anything disrupt that harmony , ’ he said . |
| 17 | He is well qualified to do the job he has done for many years and we will continue to employ him at races . ’ |
| 18 | He is well qualified to do the job he has done for many years and we will continue to employ him at races . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | This was the Finaghy lads first fight at home in six years and you could almost feel seismic waves of anticipation as he came to the ringside . |
| 21 | Jeff added : ‘ BNFL people from several sites have collected food and clothing for us to take out in previous years and I would be grateful if people could help again . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | In 1848 an experienced mines inspector and engineer could write in A Treatise on the Winning and Working of Collieries : ‘ Explosions of gas have unfortunately become so numerous in late years that it would be impossible in the absence of specific records to enumerate them . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ We are the first England representative team to face the Springboks in 23 years and we must make it a memorable day , one the selectors can not ignore . ’ |
| 25 | So much has been written concerning this question in recent years that it would waste space to reiterate arguments as to the moral , sociological , psychological and medical aspects of the problem . |
| 26 | However , a great deal has been achieved in recent years and I shall always be proud of the Department and more importantly its employees . |
| 27 | Timothy Langdale , QC , counsel for Guppy , said he had had high expenses in recent years and it should not be assumed ‘ that there is some pot of gold stuck in some foreign country ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 29 | I think the books recommend really most players eighteen months to two years before you can come . |
| 30 | You 've been telling people for two years that you 'll never be an investigator again . |