Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] several years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Japanese banks will continue to write off and provide against masses of doubtful debts for several years to come . |
| 2 | Having enjoyed a remarkable degree of freedom for several years it was now hard to relinquish areas of control . |
| 3 | By converting land into pasture for several years , the land has a chance to recover and rid itself of the heavy level of chemicals in its soil . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been working on the unionization of women in Kampur for several years now , ’ she said . |
| 5 | This effectively strangled its activities for several years . |
| 6 | However all these composers are overshadowed in historical importance by a Flemish master of all-round achievement , Adrian Willaert ( c. 1490–1562 ) , pupil of Mouton in Paris , who served the court of Ferrara for several years from 1522 but went to Venice as magister cappellae at St. Mark 's in 1527 and spent the rest of his life there . |
| 7 | Glyn was a lawyer , a partner in Rushton and Clarke , a firm who had been the family solicitors for several years , since her teenage years when she and her mother had come here and stopped roaming and moving at last . |
| 8 | But it also signals the end of an ancient rite rejoicing in human warmth and in the sun 's return.Susanna Rance has lived and worked in Bolivia for several years . |
| 9 | Susanna Rance has lived and worked in Bolivia for several years . |
| 10 | She had lived in Darrowby for several years but the townsfolk knew little about her . |
| 11 | He recognized that , although she had worn the veil for several years , she had never made her monastic profession . |
| 12 | US carriers were permitted to widen the already liberal rights they had enjoyed in the Netherlands for several years . |
| 13 | At present , horizontal presses of between 2,000 and 8,000 kilograms are allowed , but trials with larger machines have been in progress for several years . |
| 14 | Reclamation of the foreshore to seaward of the Imperial Dock was extended to the Eastern Breakwater to complete a scheme which had been in progress for several years and which would provide additional space for industry . |
| 15 | Secondly , the extreme resistance of the egg in the environment ensures its persistence for several years . |
| 16 | The US$180 million project , for which funding has been promised by the World Bank , would reduce the flow of water to the Branco river , on which the Guarani depend , and result in 700 construction workers being camped on the edge of their 6,744-acre forest reserve for several years . |
| 17 | Several films of the 1930s were to deal with the very real and widely condemned phenomenon of lynching and in 1935 MGM had finally allowed their imported genius Fritz Lang to make this story after several years of waiting . |
| 18 | Their plans reflect closely much of our UK activity and were an encouraging result for several years patient co-operation with the Japanese . |
| 19 | When The Marriage of Figaro begins , the count has been married to Rosina for several years , and is beginning to tire of her . |
| 20 | ‘ Yes , so even though she 's been on a self-monitoring programme for several years now I felt that constant professional supervision was necessary , and so did Dr Russell . ’ |
| 21 | WACC has worked closely with the NCCK 's communication department for several years , and will continue to support its new initiatives , particularly in the area of publications . |
| 22 | ( I have been checking the indexes of such books for several years now ! ) |
| 23 | Even the decrees of the Council of Clermont in 1095 , to which he sent Boso as his envoy , and from which through illness Boso did not immediately return , remained unknown to him and went unheeded in practice for several years . |
| 24 | For more than 40 years , since the passage of the 1944 Education Act , central government had no formal role in determining the curriculum of schools ; it probably had little role in practice for several years before . |
| 25 | A Sunderland woman in her twenties who had a lover for several years who spent some but not all of his time in her home , said , " We decided to start claiming together because there were a lot of snoopers around , and people I knew had got done . |
| 26 | In the District these were organised and developed by George Pateman at Cheshunt College for several years , and became a distinctive feature of summer programmes . |
| 27 | For women , money purchase schemes are problematic in that early contributions are likely to promote the best returns , yet younger women typically leave the labour force for several years and/or work part-time on motherhood . |
| 28 | If you had a bloke like John tha that virtually ran the force for several years whether you liked him or whether you did n't he he he was efficient in running the force erm especially when Charlie was was into the erm in a big way and he spent very little time with Nottinghamshire John ran the force made the decisions and cracked on with it |
| 29 | Intermagnetics , of Santa Monica , California , has been a well-known name in magnetic tape for several years . |
| 30 | We 're prepared to sustain losses for several years while we get it going . |