Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [adj] years [pers pn] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has always relied on instinct , and for 55 years it has served her well . |
| 2 | His name was Dr Georges Flandrin and for five years he had been treating the Shah for cancer . |
| 3 | Juniper Green Tennis Club was formed in 1979 and for 11 years it has provided a valuable service to the local community in Juniper Green and Baberton Mains . |
| 4 | The Prince of Wales has an obvious love of the countryside and for 20 years he has somehow found some private time to express this through the medium of watercolour painting . |
| 5 | And of late years it has been used by the inhabitants of Virginia in many disorders , which are occasioned by thick , sizy blood ; so that the root of this plant , when its virtues are fully known , may become one of the most useful medicines yet discovered . |
| 6 | A year later he switched to Labour , and within six years he had won a seat on Hounslow borough council . |
| 7 | From then on his rise was rapid and within three years he had become the supreme influence at Edward 's court . |
| 8 | And in recent years they 've played a growing role in encouraging the public to recycle their rubbish . |
| 9 | And in the 70s , we were again working in Appalachia ; and in recent years we have expanded our program to again include the entire south . ’ |
| 10 | I 've worked with children in various settings , mainly in secondary school , and in recent years I 've worked with students , so when I try to make that sort of categorization I find it very difficult . |
| 11 | Dance has always been his first love and in recent years he 's been on tour six times with his own company . |
| 12 | In 1850 therefore the deer were officially banished , and in five years they had all been killed off . |
| 13 | As Cynthia says : ‘ We found Dave entertaining children at Chessington World of Adventures , and in 25 years I had never met anyone who got on more naturally with children . ’ |
| 14 | All farms have rats and mice but in recent years they have been coming through from the barn into the house and getting into the furniture . |
| 15 | But in recent years he has spent £50,000 of his own money and much time on charitable causes . |
| 16 | Glass-fibre remains an inexpensive and effective reinforcement material , but in recent years it has been upstaged by Kevlar and carbon fibre , two stronger but more costly materials that owe their high profile largely to their use in formula racing cars . |
| 17 | The company at one time had a significant tie to the defence industry , but in recent years it has focused on what it knows best — speciality chemicals . |
| 18 | But in recent years it has lost its fury . |
| 19 | It was traditionally associated with Persia and the southern Caucasus , but in recent years it has been incorporated into the repertoire of weaving groups in other rug-making countries . |
| 20 | Much of the Forestry Commission 's early planting was certainly crude and insensitive , but in recent years it has become more attentive to its landscaping responsibilities ( not least because the Forestry Commission has found that there is money to be made out of tourism if it does so ) and now employs landscape consultants to advise on its planting policies . |
| 21 | Often they still are , but in recent years it has become common for other senior academics to act as heads of departments , sometimes in rotation . |
| 22 | Like many a similar building it had declined in status but in recent years it has been handsomely restored to its former glory . |
| 23 | Of the domestic borrowers , local authorities issued , in the years between the mid-1950s and the early 1980s , a large volume of stocks ( over five years to maturity ) and negotiable bonds ( from one to four years to maturity ) ; but in recent years it has been government policy to centralise most public-sector borrowing and as a result public issues by local authorities have all but ceased . |
| 24 | There had been a period when he allowed Barbara Castle , Dick Crossman and George Wigg , all of whom suffered from the belief that politics was a conspiracy , to influence him too much , but in later years he had broken free from them and I suddenly realised how much I had got used to him being there to shoulder the final responsibility , to feeling able to turn to him naturally for a second opinion and for well-informed advice . |
| 25 | It would probably be fair to say that views of this kind have been dominant among British socialists from the Labour-left leftwards , but over recent years they have come under increasing criticism , on both theoretical and political grounds . |