Example sentences of "year has [vb pp] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Magee 's 30-year-old sister , Kathleen , who for several years has lived in a redbrick Victorian terrace house in Northumberland Street , Derby , with her seven-year-old son , Christopher , was being held last night . |
| 2 | The narrow emphasis on economy and efficiency which characterised the Thatcher years has broadened into a search for effectiveness and excellence as the current enthusiasm for quality in health care demonstrates . |
| 3 | Lastly , again does it not occur to us that niggardly education provision over years has contributed to a level of national vulgarity , taste , social behaviour virtually unacceptable in the modern world ? |
| 4 | A FIRM which moved from London to Liverpool and doubled turnover in each of the past three years has moved to a prestige waterfront office block . |
| 5 | The interest in generative grammars over the last thirty years has resulted in a variety of theories for generative processing of language . |
| 6 | Unsurprising , perhaps , but in a country that for 40 years has acted like a poodle it is striking to find a Japanese suggesting that it now has the strength of a rottweiler . |
| 7 | The financial performance for the year has resulted in a consolidation of the position achieved in recent years . |
| 8 | The financial performance for the year has resulted in a consolidation of the position achieved in recent years . |
| 9 | — a substantial reduction — and the number waiting longer than one year has reduced by a quarter . |