Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [det] years the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first few years the Sunday School met in a private house , possibly that of a Mr Thomas Leathem . |
| 2 | For the first few years the maximum carriage length remained at 42ft . |
| 3 | For the first few years the work was concerned with the Old Red Sandstone along the southern margin of the Highlands but soon men were stationed at various points around the Grampians , including the Moray Firth area , and were advancing towards the higher ground . |
| 4 | For the first few years the remands were unopposed , since it would plainly have been inappropriate to proceed against the applicant whilst the Carrian prosecution was still afoot . |
| 5 | The CNAA could not establish boards for every subject component of degrees in education , and in the event for the first few years the Committee for Education , using a range of specialist panels in support , itself carried out the validation work . |
| 6 | Although occasionally Dutch finance companies with Antillean parents ( taxed at a turn on the interest in the Netherlands ) are still seen , for the past few years the perceived wisdom has been that the Swiss finance branch structure is superior . |
| 7 | For the past few years the incoming information has been startlingly similar from one season to the next . |
| 8 | For the last few years the sum has been £1 0 . |
| 9 | For the last several years the transformation has been led by one particular member of that leadership , who was designated the ‘ project manager ’ of the entire change effort . |
| 10 | For the next few years the horde ravaged at will through the mountains , desecrating shrines , despoiling tombs , and waylaying travellers , but Grom was unable to take any of the Dwarf holds or bring them to battle . |
| 11 | For the previous few years the soap factory had been losing business because of imports of synthetic detergents , mainly through Lever Bros , the local branch of Unilever . |
| 12 | During the next few years the plague was always with us . |
| 13 | During the last few years the Printing Division has been able to offer photosetting via its P.E . |
| 14 | During the last few years the notion of ‘ citizenship ’ has been increasingly and widely discussed amongst different constituencies addressing different aspects of the topic , with somewhat confusing consequences . |
| 15 | During the last few years the EMS has become a central plank of EC policy , and Economic and MOnetary Union has become the linchpin of the project for European Union constitutionalized in the Treaty on European Union . |
| 16 | Inevitably with the rapid expansion of the past few years the University is experiencing difficulties in providing sufficient academic as well as residential accommodation . |
| 17 | No one could foresee that over the course of the next few years the steel industry would be successfully reorganized and taken into the private sector . |
| 18 | So far the birds in this country are being reared solely for sale as breeding pairs , but it 's hoped in the next few years the stock will be large enough to sell the birds for their meat . |
| 19 | IN THE past few years the laws forbidding the sale of alcohol to teenagers have been weakened , in the sense that they are neither as just nor as realistic as they were . |
| 20 | But in the past few years the trend has been in the opposite direction . |
| 21 | In the past few years the appeal system has been successfully used to overcome the resistance of reluctant local authorities , and development has tended to proceed on an ad hoc basis with new centres sited where developers can acquire land easily rather than on the basis of any strategic plan . |
| 22 | On the other hand , in the past few years the number of students in further education colleges in Wales has increased very considerably . |
| 23 | In the past few years the advent of AIDS has introduced a number of parasitic , bacterial and fungal diseases , some previously little known , that have proved to be highly pathogenic in immunocompromised patients . |
| 24 | In the past few years the advent of AIDS has introduced a number of parasitic , bacterial and fungal diseases , some previously little known , that have proved to be highly pathogenic in immunocompromised patients . |
| 25 | In the last few years the courts have contrived in effect to extend the substance of a right of occupation to a mistress who has lived on an originally permanent basis with a man , but who has now lost her partner either through death or as a result of some form of desertion . |
| 26 | In the last few years the Conservative government has instituted a programme called ‘ Next Steps ’ . |
| 27 | In the last few years the volume of literature concerned with gender and mathematics has grown apace , both at home and abroad . |
| 28 | I am encouraged that in the last few years the number of cyclists I see commuting to and in Edinburgh has increased . |
| 29 | Over the past few years the bourgeoisie has taken probably £10bn of completely untaxed , totally unearned capital profit from selling their houses . |
| 30 | The report noted that over the past few years the government departments had introduced competitive fee bidding for the appointment of consulting engineers leading to lower fee rates . |