Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adj] year [pers pn] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | and it was er a penny each way from across to Mold and when he sold out to Crosswell , old Jenkins stipulated that for so many years they had to keep penny each way |
| 2 | She was so constantly braced , her will so stiff from desire , that she could not sleep at nights ; she feared that if she fell asleep she might lose her determination and her faith , might wake up alone in her narrow bed , in the small back bedroom , overlooking the small square garden , backing onto the next small square garden , where for so many years she had lain and dreamed her subversive dreams . |
| 3 | For nearly thirty years it 's been lost . |
| 4 | For nearly fifty years he 'd worked with the New York Philharmonic , the orchestra 's manager , Nick Webster , was one of the first to pay tribute to his talent at America 's best known classical musician . |
| 5 | Even as a boy Haile Selassie had believed in his imperial destiny ; for nearly twenty years he had survived conspiracies , wars and revolutions , and his resolution had never faltered . |
| 6 | For nearly 3 years they 've made the 2 and a half mile trip from their temporary classrooms back to their homes . |
| 7 | In only six years it has become a significant nature reserve in its own right . |
| 8 | Moreover , within just eleven years he had been elevated to the honorific status of ‘ Dom ’ and sent to the abbey of Hautvillers to take up the post of cellarmaster , a position second only to that of abbot . |
| 9 | In more recent years he has shown how he despises the movie industry by making only rare fleeting appearances . |
| 10 | This was , admittedly , the rather indeterminate ‘ walking speed ’ , though in more recent years it has been followed by widespread adoption of 30 km/h limits , especially in Germany . |
| 11 | It is normally defined as the intra-urban movement of population from the inner to the outer parts of the same urban region , but in more recent years it has become inextricably bound up with the patterns of inter-urban redistribution associated with the urban-rural shift . |
| 12 | And for the first time in nearly three years she had been able to talk about Martin . |
| 13 | For over thirty years I have been teaching in the public schools of New York City . |
| 14 | For over fifteen years I have been a regular reader of Pilot and keep the back numbers which offer an extremely useful information source on a wide range of flying matters . |
| 15 | I presume neither Mr Baker nor Mrs Rumbold was aware that for over ten years I had been conducting a campaign to make creative writing a central feature of the English curriculum , and that in October 1983 I helped to organise a manifesto on this subject which was published in the Times Higher Education Supplement . |
| 16 | For over 40 years we 've built our solid base and sound banking system in the Tokyo metropolitan area , Japan 's vigorous economic centre . |
| 17 | For over twenty years it has been constantly perceptive and probing in its reporting of the North 's political and artistic life , as well as providing a platform for all shades of opinion in Ireland . |
| 18 | For over twenty years I have been experimenting with how we show music : not only the work of the orchestra , how they play , but also the way the instruments are brought in as part of the musical argument . |
| 19 | However , there have been changes of contrast and changes of detail on time scales from years to days , and for at least 100 years it has been widely realized that we are seeing the tops of richly coloured clouds that cover the entire planet . |
| 20 | Still , they were going to Florida and she was going to Spain , so at least this year she had something to look forward to . |
| 21 | Many agree that for too many years we have been ‘ data rich ’ but not capable of computerising the knowledge and experience of highly skilled maintenance engineers . |
| 22 | ‘ For very many years he has had mistresses . ’ |