Example sentences of "period [prep] nearly [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over a period of nearly two years , when he was involved with the two models , McAvennie had his sights on Jenny Blyth , one of the Daily Star 's highest paid models and an undisputed star in the premier league of page three girls . |
| 2 | Rudolph Ackermann issued some fifty books with coloured plates , including the well-known Repository of Arts , Literature , Commerce , Manufacture , and Politics , which appeared monthly over a period of nearly twenty years . |
| 3 | The full picture of ILR ownership over a period of nearly twenty years is difficult to trace . |
| 4 | The research is therefore intended to contribute to this theoretical debate and , in drawing on field work over a period of nearly twenty years , to consider critically the applicability of ideas like discourse to a particular ethnographic case . |
| 5 | This last index has been a boon to many UK fund managers concerned over relative performance , since it has been weighed down by the Tokyo market , which has been in sustained fall for a period of nearly three years . |