Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [adj] years [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Welcoming the company 's plans , DBRW chairman Glyn Davies said that for many years the Development Board had sought to help the company to re-locate and expand while staying in Llanfyllin . |
| 2 | They therefore tend to assume that after two years the firm ( if it is not a supernormal growth firm ) simply grows in line with GDP , on the grounds that , in the long run , the share of dividends or earnings in GDP does not trend in any significant way . |
| 3 | Does the Secretary of State realise that we were promised 20 years ago that after 20 years the toll would be abolished ? |
| 4 | It is true that with increased years the incidence of multiple pathology increases . |
| 5 | Balance is better achieved by a mixture — often sold as ‘ blood , bone and fish ’ — although in recent years the fish content has been considerably reduced as it is used more and more in animal and pet foodstuffs . |
| 6 | On the other hand , although in recent years the regulation of the financial services industry has generated a lot of judicial review applications against regulatory bodies , the courts have discouraged these largely because they do not want court proceedings to be used as tactical weapons to delay financial transactions by parties disappointed by the failure of a regulatory body to give the applicant the protection it sought from financial predators . |
| 7 | And what will he do to ensure that in future years the system pays up at the beginning of the year , not a third of the way through it or later ? |
| 8 | He pointed out that costs formerly allocated to the President no longer applied and that in future years the grant would require to be reduced . |
| 9 | It had been my cherished wish , if our circumstances had allowed , to create a ‘ Balancing Fund ’ so that in future years the Institute would not be wholly dependent on forecasting expenditure on the basis of income it had yet to receive . |
| 10 | This means that in future years the revenue accounts effectively treat the use of these assets as being free . |
| 11 | The one reservation with this technique is that in certain years the numbers of L3 which overwinter are sufficient to cause heavy infections in the spring and clinical ostertagiasis can occur in calves in April and May . |
| 12 | While it remains to be seen which , if any , of these options is adopted , it is not very encouraging that in recent years a number of offers of adoption have apparently been made by national bodies , only to be discouraged by the DES . |
| 13 | Here we simply remark that in recent years the idea that a linguistic string ( a sentence ) can be fully analysed without taking ‘ context ’ into account has been seriously questioned . |
| 14 | How far present-day societies are likely to proceed along this road is a matter of debate ( and I shall return to the question in Chapter 6 ) , but at the least it has to be recognized that in recent years the idea of political action has been very substantially broadened , so that there is already a quite widespread awareness of the variety of ways in which individuals and groups of individuals can assert their dissent from the policies of government at all levels ( for example , the revolt against the poll tax in Britain ) and bring into the arena of public debate alternative policies . |
| 15 | Does my hon. Friend agree that in recent years the income of farmers in Scotland , particularly those in the less-favoured areas , has fallen substantially ? |
| 16 | Bela Kádár , the Hungarian permanent representative to COMECON , said on Jan. 5 that in recent years the organization had " lost touch with the realities of international politics and economics " , and that for this reason it had been essential to wind it up . |
| 17 | Several mentioned that in recent years the rate of voluntary leaving had decreased so that they were no longer able to rely upon increasing or slowing down the rate of recruitment to maintain their labour forces at the desired level . |
| 18 | The outcome is that in recent years the N.A.C. list has been ignored by serious anglers who are aware of the N.A.S.A . |
| 19 | The Committee of London Clearing Bankers told us that in recent years the banks have been opening an increasing number of accounts for customers in the middle to lower income groups . |
| 20 | Er the County Council demonstrates that in five years the Hertfordshire erm etc , erm now I think Chairman we do have erm a pretty good strategy into the consultation rather better than the one for the erm current year which was started erm by the previous erm administration . |
| 21 | Haymo found on a tour of the diocese that the Palace at Halling with its farming implements and utensils was in a much dilapidated state and he is quoted as saying the state of the property of the diocese was so bad that in seven years the damage could not be made good . |
| 22 | For example , we all know that productivity growth in the UK has been inferior to West Germany 's over the post-war decades ; that product development has been behind that of Japan ; and that over many years the rates of growth of South Korea , Italy and East Germany were higher than the United Kingdom 's . |
| 23 | And for two years a de-icing service run jointly with the UK Department of Transport has advised local authorities on proper road maintenance in freezing weather and helped promote safer driving . |
| 24 | Barber was a member of the council of the Royal Institute of Chemistry ( 1960–63 ) and vice-president ( 1963–64 ) , chairman of the Essex Section ( 1967–68 ) , and for many years a member of other institute committees . |
| 25 | Mr. J.S. Southworth , a Governor and Old Stopfordian , and for many years the School 's representative on the Stockport Education Committee , filled the breach during the Bursar 's illness , and continued to do so after the latter 's untimely death on 28th October . |
| 26 | Typical is S. Botolph 's Church , Boston , in Lincolnshire , called colloquially the ‘ Boston Stump ’ because its top storey was added so much later than the rest of the church and for many years the tower had a decapitated appearance ( 476 ) . |
| 27 | For most of his life he has been a Salvation Army member and for seven years the opposition Chief Whip . |
| 28 | With the Hammersmith team he took part in the evolution of the heart-lung machine and for some years the Melrose pump-oxygenator was the standard in Britain . |
| 29 | Few of the elderly male messengers now remained , and for some years the Department had recruited women . |
| 30 | Those who buy shares in BES funds receive tax relief on their investment , and after five years the houses are sold . |