Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [adj] years [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were the North Riding Authority , er the East Riding Authority , the West Riding Authority , all of which converged on the on the city of York , and as you read through the files , er you will see that even then the D O E were trying to get erm those er those predecessor authorities in the late fifties , early sixties er to come to some view about what ought to be better for Greater York , so for many years the idea of Greater York ha has been current er in one guise or another . |
| 2 | The funds made available through the Farm and Horticultural Development Scheme will be a sound national investment but does it make sense to embark on a programme with a possibility that perhaps after six years the land might be allocated to forestry ? |
| 3 | American tax law obliges the Getty to keep spending its dividend income or risk losing its exempt status , so in recent years the museum has dominated the institutional market for art . |
| 4 | Thus in cheap years a family with three children were guaranteed 9s ( 45p ) , while the doubling of the bread allowance in dearer ones would bring this up to 12s ( 60p ) . |
| 5 | Barracks close : Scarborough 's Burniston Barracks closed yesterday after 130 years a victim of the Government 's defence cuts . |
| 6 | Anybody who has operated in business for more than five years knows that invariably in five years the business is not all right unless something has been done about it . |
| 7 | Although we have been going there for 10 years the excitement of seeing all our friends will never ever die and I hope it is going to stay a good , clean Holiday site for many years . |
| 8 | After the car had been there for some years the defendant wished to convert the yard into a garage but was unable to communicate with the plaintiff . |
| 9 | Himself a farmer , almost for 30 years an MP , now with almost a year as minister under his belt , Sir Hector was his usual affable self , seldom referring to his backing group of Scottish Office specialists . |
| 10 | Yet for many years the idea of using probabilistic information within an NLP system was viewed with some disdain by the linguistic community . |
| 11 | Yet within two years the percentage of sub-£2 assessments jumped from a modest 39½ to more than 56 . |