Example sentences of "[be] [verb] for [art] [det] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Choose an open , sunny site where brassicas have n't been grown for a few years . |
| 2 | Yes , this is what big shops , particularly in America , have now been doing for a few years , in that the till that takes your order as it were is also a computer terminal on line to large computers somewhere else , and every time your tin of baked bins is checked out by the girl on the till , it is adjusting the stocks on its large computer and saying , ‘ Hey , we 're going to run out of baked beans at approximately ten o'clock tomorrow morning . |
| 3 | The ground was cropped until it was exhausted and had to be left for a few years to recuperate . |
| 4 | It was felt that this type of exercise would probably not be repeated for a few years . |
| 5 | ‘ The plant has been neglected for a few years so I thought I 'd give it some plant food and water and to my astonishment this was the result , ’ said Margaret . |
| 6 | The government 's Countryside Commission argued that the licence should only have been renewed for a few years during a thorough review of military land requirements . |
| 7 | But now I 've been drug-free for over a year erm but I 'd been trying for a few year before that and had nay managed to succeed . |
| 8 | A major Memling show , organised by Dirck de Vos for the Bruges Museum , is planned for the same year . |
| 9 | In the early fifties after the war the Home Guard was reformed for a few years and some of us , having been demobbed from the forces rejoined , but somehow the spirit of the " Dads ' Army " had gone and one felt the enthusiasm was not there . |