Example sentences of "[verb] years of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The US Department of Agriculture ( USDA ) , ending years of debate , has relaxed regulatory supervision of field tests of six important genetically engineered crops . |
| 2 | Killing Elinor was the kind of thing you would need years of study to accomplish . |
| 3 | The policy to which we devoted years of labour must be regarded as a thing of the past . |
| 4 | However , behind the 30,000 sq ft of merchandising space , which will create 177 part-time and 16 full-time jobs , lies years of planning and a £7 million construction project which has resulted in an undeveloped site being turned into one of the country 's most up-to-date retail complexes . |
| 5 | Stanton Friedman , who has years of experience in the design , development and testing of advanced nuclear and space systems , concludes , in his 1990 report , that the leaked documents are genuine . |
| 6 | Clearly , the Cairns group has years of work ahead . |
| 7 | ‘ Inflation ’ , as this is called , got a rapturous reception when it was put forward in 1980 , despite , or perhaps because of , its weirdness ( cosmologists , after all , undergo years of training so that they can say things like ‘ When the universe was the size of a grapefruit ’ without blushing or laughing ) . |
| 8 | They talk like doctors ( in bits of Latin ) , they have illegible handwriting , they undergo years of training , they refer to medical textbooks . |
| 9 | They suffered years of guilt and dissimulation before they could announce their own agnosticism or adamant disbelief . |
| 10 | All along the coastal plain bordering the North Sea and the Baltic , stretching from the Dutch frontier to that of the U.S.S.R. , the towns suffered years of bombardment from sea and air during the Second World War . |
| 11 | A SIMPLE natured man who had suffered years of taunts and attacks by vandals lost his temper and beat an 11year-old boy , a court heard yesterday . |
| 12 | A SIMPLE natured man who had suffered years of taunts and attacks by vandals lost his temper and beat an 11-year-old boy , a court heard yesterday . |
| 13 | Lawyers for Clifford Newton , 46 , who said he had endured years of bullying , intimidation and violence culminating in a death threat from his father , had urged the Court of Appeal to reduce the jail term . |
| 14 | There are enough accounts of Blenheim operations to put things into historical perspective , while the detailed description of the restoration project enables one to understand how mortified all felt when human error undid years of endeavour in a few seconds . |
| 15 | For general garden use an upright , galvanised metal can will give years of service . |
| 16 | A pond is soon established and will give years of pleasure |
| 17 | We have suffered from the same thing as the other two er Abalance have said today of money being used from our surplus to provide for redundancy and erm i it 's been exacerbated by money being available from the people who are made , made redundant , going to the company and swelling their balance sheets , while all the cost side of it comes out of the pension fund and that has caused a lot of ill-feeling particularly from the older pensioners who have seen years of inflation when their pensions were not made up to the same extent . |
| 18 | We have suffered from the same thing as the other two er Abalance have said today of money being used from our surplus to provide for redundancy and erm it 's been exacerbated by money being available from the people who were made , made redundant going to the company and swelling their balance sheets while all the cost side of it comes out of the pension fund and that has caused a lot of ill-feeling particularly from the older pensioners who have seen years of inflation , when their pensions were not made up to the same extent . |
| 19 | As an apprentice plumber he endured years of chilblains and chapped hands due to constant submersion in cold water until he set himself up in business in London . |
| 20 | With a smile on his face , The Doc turned years of anguish on its head . |
| 21 | Though not so revolutionary as to require years of testing and modification ( and run the risk of ultimate rejection as in the case of the Advanced Passenger Train ) . |
| 22 | The introduction of car parking charges ends years of debate about the issue . |
| 23 | They know from cos they 've had years of experience |
| 24 | New conveyancers should not allow themselves to be bullied by more senior members of the profession who have had years of experience . |
| 25 | Charles has had years of practice and had already encountered all the customs and forms of national dress that amuse Diana so much . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've had years of practice . ’ |
| 27 | She 'd had years of practice . |
| 28 | Mr Keating is being urged to act quickly to avoid years of uncertainty while new claims are fought through the courts . |
| 29 | Judging takes years of experience and a keen impartial eye . |
| 30 | Reading takes years of learning and practice by the human child , who already has an established linguistic and cognitive system . |