Example sentences of "year [verb] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It only takes a little imagination to turn the Cam pit into a nature reserve and if it was possible to lay out a few paths making nature trails etc. the future of the Great Pit that Rugby Cement Works are now engaged in could in years to come make an ideal game reserve and possible " marina " with a link to the river . |
| 2 | Within a time span of two years has emerged an extensive network of education business practitioners using a variety of backgrounds and experiences in a variety of operating conditions . |
| 3 | Martell 's studies of the behaviour of radon decay products show that someone who smokes 20 cigarettes per day for 40 years has received a cumulative dose of about 100 rads at tissue sites in the lungs — a dose powerful enough to spark cancer . |
| 4 | The spread of poverty in the eight years has strained the whole nation , and widened misery and disadvantage amongst the old and young . |
| 5 | A recognition of the need to maintain that sector and through it the full diversity of recorded music in Britain is one reason why the last few years has seen a new interest in the record industry from public bodies concerned with culture and with employment . |
| 6 | The last twenty years has seen a major effort , theoretical and observational to understand the evolution of animal societies . |
| 7 | Though the last twenty years has seen a major step forward in our understanding of the Scottish Reformation and of Scottish society in the sixteenth century , there is still an extraordinary gulf between the personality and the reign of Mary Queen of Scots . |
| 8 | The past 10 years has seen a dramatic improvement in Italy 's wine technology led by the latest generation of gifted wine-makers . |
| 9 | Sport & Recreation is a very small part of a huge leisure industry which over the last 20 years has seen a massive increase in both the provision of Local Authority facilities and in participation levels . |
| 10 | For interest shejoined the Southwark ordination course to study Theology and for some years has written a regular Bible commentary for her Parish Magazine . |
| 11 | But even Mr Papandreou , who in recent years has survived a brutal scandal , major heart surgery and a demanding new marriage , is now looking pretty frail . |
| 12 | Players on tour are normally paired together as room-mates , a simple organisational expedient that over the years has created an explosive chemistry of scandal and misbehaviour . |
| 13 | The economic restructuring of recent years has had a traumatic effect on the estates , with massive job loss and factory closure transforming them into increasingly isolated , state-managed ‘ subsistence communities ’ . |
| 14 | Although based in Cardiff , the Welsh National Opera tours extensively , and for the last twelve years has had a regular season in London too . |
| 15 | This has forced us to look afresh at the regular London days and , with the prompting of a number of the most regular attenders , we have decided to drop the June day , which in recent years has had a low attendance . |
| 16 | However , the growing number of students with instrumental proficiency in recent years has meant an increasing concentration on orchestral work . |
| 17 | The standard of play over the past few years has shown a considerable step-up and the cream of the local talent now face a daunting challenge in their bid to reclaim the title for ‘ home ’ keeping . |
| 18 | Print publishing over the past four years has shown an annual growth of some 8% but electronic ( non-print ) publishing over the same period has reached an annual growth rate of some 20% . |
| 19 | The rampant sexism of the climbing and walking fraternity over the last 50 years has left a whole generation of older women with the legacy of being expected to have the white-bearded , old sod 's tea ready for him on the table when he comes home from a fabulous day out on the hills . |
| 20 | I 've been coming to conference for the last fifteen years to help build the grand union which we 've got today and I 'm not gon na sit back and watch this carved up , for nobody , for nobody . |
| 21 | If she is withdrawn from school for two years to help produce a new language course eighty children will lose out . |
| 22 | The traditional medical course at Harvard was a postgraduate entry , four year one with the first two years spent studying the basic sciences and the second two devoted to clinical subjects . |
| 23 | Ostensibly objective textual scholarship adopted editorial policies which for many years worked to ensure the above assumptions could be confirmed . |
| 24 | The Prime Minister had spent 10 years trying to destroy the human spirit in Britain , but ‘ she has failed because we in this movement are not going to allow her ’ . |
| 25 | The first occasion was in the early 1980s when it and the Stock Exchange spent three years trying to develop an automated settlements system for the gilts market before the Bank took over total responsibility for the project in 1985 to develop what has become the highly effective Central Gilts Office . |
| 26 | This meant that after thirty years had elapsed the original owner could no longer claim back the property , while the factual possessor could not be designated the proper owner . |
| 27 | Great efforts would be needed to restore the party to its strong position of 1914 and to carry on with the fundamental changes that had been under way then , but the war years had done no lasting damage . |
| 28 | Pardoe is delighted by the prospect of going to market , although he 's reluctant to undercut the small shops who for years have kept the organic movement going . |
| 29 | The past ten years have witnessed a tremendous growth in the number and variety of transport services provided by the transport sector . |
| 30 | But recent years have witnessed a remarkable example of their ability to adapt to change . |