Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] [adj] years [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was lucky to move on from Manchester City Art Galleries where after seventeen years I ended up as Senior Keeper of Fine Art . |
| 2 | Estate duty reliefs carried forward to CTT include freedom from tax where an interest in settled property comes to a end during the settlor 's life and the property then reverts to him ( unless , of course , the reverter is by reason of his purchase of the reversionary interest ) ; and an allowance analogous to the old Quick Succession Allowance where within four years there has been more than one chargeable transfer il which the value transferred has been determined by reference to the value of the same settled property in which an interest in possession subsists . |
| 3 | In much of Western Europe a predominant characteristic has been trade union pluralism ( and sometimes reluctance to engage in continuous relationships with employers ) promoted by ideological , philosophical and religious differences , although in recent years there has been rather less emphasis upon the importance of religious affinity . |
| 4 | although in recent years there have been significant improvements in the provision of research and library facilities for M.P.s these still lag fir behind those available to their counterparts abroad . |
| 5 | Our knowledge of life histories of most deep-sea ophiuroids is poor ( see Tyler , 1980 for a review ) although in recent years there have been several accounts of the reproductive biology of the more common species ( Schoener 1968 , 1972 : Tyler & Gage 1979 , 1980 , 1982 ; Gage & Tyler , 1981 , 1982 ) together with some work on the post-larval stages ( Schoener 1967 , 1969 ; Gage & Tyler 1981 ) . |
| 6 | It is a Yorkshire dale in a classic sense with sweeping contours and a fierce beauty on the grand scale , although in recent years it has been placed in County Durham ( not that locals pay any attention to such cultural vandalism ) . |
| 7 | He had carried the day , of course , for although in fourteen years he had made himself supreme King in Alba , he was born to the north , and from Moray to the northernmost island of Orkney he was the leader men trusted and knew . |
| 8 | And if in three years you decided the performance was less than adequate , it would be worth you losing two percent to come out . |
| 9 | If in subsequent years we renew this overdraft , the fee will be reduced to ½%.; |
| 10 | oh , you know , that 's , that 's it because for thirteen years they have dismantled the social system , that 's what they 've done in thirteen years , so they ca n't say overnight , we 'll put it all back because there is n't , there , there is n't the finance there because they 've spent it all to have done what they 've done |
| 11 | But after three such encounters he said he realized this was because after eight years she had stopped loving him and he made his famous remark about adultery . |
| 12 | Irene Schwidurski missed all those , since for many years she has refused to observe the major public holidays of the GDR , 1 May and 7 October , the date the state was founded . |
| 13 | At Dulwich and Oxford University he was an excellent athlete and Rugby Union Player , while in later years he became a good club cricketer and a member of I Zingari . |
| 14 | The recorded history of the country goes back 5000 years to the first known pharaohs ; and though for 2000 years there had been waves of invaders bringing one foreign ruler after another , for most of the peasants ( the fellahin ) life continued much as it had for centuries , regulated as much by the Nile and the miracle of its annual flood , as by successive new masters . |
| 15 | It did n't last ; his alienation from England seems to have coincided with an alienation from Dorothy , for within five years he had a child by Olga Rudge . |
| 16 | For one thing , she said , they could hardly scrape up enough money for one deck passage , let alone two , for in two years he had sold only three paintings for a few pounds . |
| 17 | There is no presumption that monopoly is necessarily bad , and the Commission is charged to investigate whether or not the monopoly acts against the public interest , a brief that may be widely interpreted though in recent years there has been increasing emphasis on the ‘ maintenance and promotion of effective competition ’ . |
| 18 | This standard was developed with commercial accounts in mind and it confirms the view that depreciation is a matter of allocation , not of valuation ; though in recent years it has become acceptable to allocate revalued amounts . |