Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [verb] [prep] many year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Subscriptions fell steadily and expenditure fell even more sharply with the reduction of salaries and the suspension of propaganda , so that most local parties ended the war with a substantial profit ; but this concealed a real weakness , for expenditure could be revived by a single decision , while income could only be revived by many years of patient work . |
| 2 | Under the terms of the Compromise , Member States were supposedly given the right to veto decisions affecting their vital national interests ; under the terms of this Maastricht Declaration they effectively renounce that right , thus giving to foreign policy at the outset the same status as that acquired by other areas of policy where the Compromise has gradually been eroded over many years . |
| 3 | However , the system has now been operating for many years and much good work in the safety field has resulted . |
| 4 | In fact , the work was never really completed , additions simply being made over many years as the need for extra wards arose . |
| 5 | We do n't want to accrue er interest even if it 's being expenses by B-Sky-B if it 's not going to actually be paid for many years , but to the extent that it 's er likely to turn into cash in the relatively near future , then I think we would erm think it 's now time to start addressing that issue and the result would be that we should probably erm accrue some reasonable and not very substantial amount of back-interest er in the current financial year . |