Example sentences of "been [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | No more detailed official guidance has been given in the succeeding years . |
| 2 | Reflecting on the parson 's fortitude in distress , his manifest care for his wife , and his humble acceptance of divine will , Agnew had felt a sense of shame that his original impulse had been clouded by the passing years . |
| 3 | Published by the Menil Foundation with Mercator Fonds and Thames & Hudson ( £45 ) , it is aimed at a wider readership , but it will be the essential essay for all students keen to learn how a great scholar 's opinions have been honed over the long years spent in the consideration of Magritte 's art . |
| 4 | Without them the useful life of streptomycin might have been confined to a few years . |
| 5 | He seldom thought of the half-dozen men who had been hanged during the twenty years of his forensic experience , primarily because of his evidence , and when he did , it was not the strained but oddly anonymous faces in the dock which he remembered , or their names ; but paper and ink , the thickened downward stroke , the peculiar formation of a letter . |
| 6 | Instead an eclectic approach has been taken , highlighting some of the more significant work that has been done in the five years since the first edition of this book was published . |
| 7 | The phenomenon had first been noticed in the last years of Victoria 's reign , among the new generation coming through who would be the new Edwardians and who would inherit the new century . |
| 8 | The convergence of geopolitical events , of the consequences of the technology that has been fermenting in the post-war years , of new ideologies , of government processes are of a scale and significance unprecedented for half a century . |
| 9 | Much the same impulse had been felt in the early years of reports by the APU . |
| 10 | If , however , they were too pessimistic this should have been belied in the subsequent years since the Nigerian Indigenization Decree of 1972 , implemented from February 1974 , which reserved twenty-six activities in large-scale industry exclusively for Nigerian ownership ; foreign companies operating in these businesses had to sell out . |
| 11 | Choose an open , sunny site where brassicas have n't been grown for a few years . |
| 12 | And when Lugard came to look back on what had been accomplished in the early years of British administration he singled out the improved character of the native rulers , which he attributed to ‘ the unceasing efforts and devoted ability of the British staff , who have by precept and example made them what they are today ’ . |
| 13 | The best places for bottles in Montepulciano are the cool brick cantine like that of the Contucci Palace , cellars furred with black fungus where Vino Nobile has been produced for a thousand years . |
| 14 | And this ’ — he spread an arm out — ‘ is the amateur group I 've been supporting over the past years . ’ |
| 15 | Yes , this is what big shops , particularly in America , have now been doing for a few years , in that the till that takes your order as it were is also a computer terminal on line to large computers somewhere else , and every time your tin of baked bins is checked out by the girl on the till , it is adjusting the stocks on its large computer and saying , ‘ Hey , we 're going to run out of baked beans at approximately ten o'clock tomorrow morning . |
| 16 | It was decided that sufficient experience had been gained in the three years of presentations for Physical Education and Recreation modules to allow a review in this area . |
| 17 | When we have breakfast , on the 8th floor , we can look down on the river , and watch all the river traffic , including large passenger vessels , big merchant ships belching smoke , strings of wooden barges , and big and small old-fashioned junks , which look as if they have been sailing for a 100 years at least . |
| 18 | The period has been increased from the five years prescribed by the 1959 Act . |
| 19 | According to official figures , more than 200 women and young girls have been killed during the 23 years of the Troubles . |
| 20 | Yet it may be argued that part of the process was a search for the open sea which France had been denied until the early years of the thirteenth century , and that the desire to win control of the peripheral duchies of Aquitaine , Brittany and Normandy was but an aspect of a wider policy which included an ambition to have access to , and control of , the ports on the Atlantic , Mediterranean and Channel coasts for military as well as for commercial reasons . |
| 21 | His words were prophetic , for as I write about it now I realize that it has never been repeated in the thirty-five years that have passed since then . |
| 22 | If this package had had to go through national parliaments , it would not have been achieved in a hundred years ! ’ |
| 23 | ‘ The plant has been neglected for a few years so I thought I 'd give it some plant food and water and to my astonishment this was the result , ’ said Margaret . |
| 24 | The government 's Countryside Commission argued that the licence should only have been renewed for a few years during a thorough review of military land requirements . |
| 25 | POLLING stations 83 and 84 for the village of Hath Qila lie down a dusty track that must be one of the few roads that has not been metalled in the five years that Mr Rajiv Gandhi has been cosseting his home constituency of Amethi . |
| 26 | Mike 's inspiration has been redoubled in the six years since that announcement ; Beth , five , has been joined by Felicity , 18 months . |