Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [adj] years [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And for two years a de-icing service run jointly with the UK Department of Transport has advised local authorities on proper road maintenance in freezing weather and helped promote safer driving . |
| 2 | Barber was a member of the council of the Royal Institute of Chemistry ( 1960–63 ) and vice-president ( 1963–64 ) , chairman of the Essex Section ( 1967–68 ) , and for many years a member of other institute committees . |
| 3 | Mr. J.S. Southworth , a Governor and Old Stopfordian , and for many years the School 's representative on the Stockport Education Committee , filled the breach during the Bursar 's illness , and continued to do so after the latter 's untimely death on 28th October . |
| 4 | Typical is S. Botolph 's Church , Boston , in Lincolnshire , called colloquially the ‘ Boston Stump ’ because its top storey was added so much later than the rest of the church and for many years the tower had a decapitated appearance ( 476 ) . |
| 5 | For most of his life he has been a Salvation Army member and for seven years the opposition Chief Whip . |
| 6 | With the Hammersmith team he took part in the evolution of the heart-lung machine and for some years the Melrose pump-oxygenator was the standard in Britain . |
| 7 | Few of the elderly male messengers now remained , and for some years the Department had recruited women . |
| 8 | Those who buy shares in BES funds receive tax relief on their investment , and after five years the houses are sold . |
| 9 | But they will be allowed to buy stakes of up to 15 per cent and after five years the barriers will come down . |
| 10 | The bones remaining within the intact pellets were found to be protected from weathering and after two years the pellets were taken apart by hand and the bones from them exposed again . |
| 11 | Grasses gradually increase and after 10 years the appearance is mainly one of grassland with scattered clumps of tall herbs . |
| 12 | While any one group may cultivate two or three different gardens of varying ages at any one time , the nutrient stocks are rapidly depleted and within 3 years the plot is abandoned and secondary forest begins to reestablish . |
| 13 | Work started immediately , and within three years the scheme was completed . |
| 14 | Moreover , conventional medicine has concentrated mainly on the treatment of chronic and acute illness , and until recent years the role of preventive medicine has suffered comparative neglect . |
| 15 | The acoustics are particularly good , and in recent years the cathedral has played host to International Bach Concerts in June . |
| 16 | The charge made for school meals is a good example , and in recent years the burden has grown as the price of a school meal has increased dramatically . |
| 17 | The form of the autumn statement makes that debate more difficult , and in 13 years the Government have done little or nothing to improve it . |
| 18 | The lesson was learned , and in subsequent years a photocall has been organized for the first day , when the Prince and Princess pose sweetly for the cameras on the understanding that thereafter the media will go home so the two can holiday in peace . |
| 19 | In fact , maintenance was carried out there and in later years the basement was used as a rifle range for the staff and brass bands used to rehearse there for competitions at the Crystal Palace . |
| 20 | However the industrial basis for syndicalism was lying in ruins as a result of the Depression and in later years the unions strongly opposed the idea of industrial action for political ends . |
| 21 | He had received his political education in the household of Nur ed-Din , ruler of Syria from 1154 to 1174 and in those years the crusaders ' greatest enemy . |
| 22 | But for twenty years a south hereford district council has tried to get them evicted . |
| 23 | The plaintiff did not enter the wool trade but after nine years the defendants stopped the pension . |
| 24 | At first the hedges were no more than double rows of seedlings protected by a rail on one side or both , but after twenty years the thorns had grown high enough to be cut and laid , a practice which William Marshall describes as the latest improvement in his Rural Economy of the Midland Counties in 1790 . |
| 25 | But in recent years the knowledge of the role of electricity in the treatment of disease has developed considerably , and there are no technical reasons why the findings and the techniques outlined can not be implemented and developed immediately by any competent specialist . |
| 26 | But in recent years the decline of these industries has meant an end to many traditional working-class communities where the extended family still survived . |
| 27 | But in recent years the wisdom of fostering in all cases has been questioned and the merits of a less emotionally demanding atmosphere , which a home can provide , have been increasingly accepted . |
| 28 | Assessment has traditionally been regarded as the responsibility of psychiatrists , but in recent years the role of non-medically qualified personnel has been examined . |
| 29 | At first the local farmers provided any bales of straw they had left , but in recent years the bales have had to be bought and transported from Selby . |
| 30 | Greek and Roman objects were the first works the Met acquired after its founding in 1870 , but in recent years the department has figured far less prominently than other areas which have undergone elaborate reinstallation . |