Example sentences of "carried [adv prt] [adj] years " in BNC.
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1 | David Downes in The Delinquent Solution refers to a study of Chicago gangs carried out thirty years previously for support on this point . |
2 | It is interesting to compare these figures with the results of a survey of interim reporting carried out 10 years ago for the Institute publication The role of interim accounts and preliminary profit announcements in financial reporting in the UK ( 1982 ) . |
3 | United States carried out two years ago . |
4 | Road tests carried out twenty years ago show how passengers can be thrown around in a crash . |
5 | Very significantly , in comparing his study with another carried out 19 years before , Gorer found there had been a marked increase in this expressed appreciation of the sexual factor in marriage — even more marked in women than in men . |
6 | Research in Mexico , Colombia and Venezuela , carried out several years after Turner 's work , lends support to some aspects of the Turner thesis , but not others ( Gilbert and Ward 1985 ) . |
7 | Here we are reminded of studies carried out some years ago in Germany on the personality characteristics of a large group of professional painters and sculptors . |
8 | The relief can be set against the investor 's other income in that tax year or carried back three years or carried forward . |