Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adj] years it [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | For nearly thirty years it 's been lost . |
2 | For nearly 300 years it achieved notoriety for its private madhouses . |
3 | In only six years it has become a significant nature reserve in its own right . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |