Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] years it " in BNC.
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| 1 | For forty three years it has been the jewel in the crown of the Labour Party legislation and for forty three years the Labour Party has defended the National Health Service against all comers . |
| 2 | For some 25 years it has been recognised that the overall settlement system is antiquated in comparison with that of other major financial centres and that , if The Exchange is to maintain and enhance its position as one of the World 's major international exchanges , further and more radical reforms are needed . |
| 3 | another twenty years it 's littered with people who 've failed in this . |
| 4 | But for another thirty years it remained solely an entertainment for princes and wealthy aristocrats , mostly at Mantua , Florence , Bologna , Parma , and Rome . |
| 5 | We can not , since over 140 million years it is likely that the threat of extinction due to climatic change may have been continually postponed . |
| 6 | In the early post-war years it was believed that investment expenditures were not very responsive to changes in interest rates , and most of the empirical evidence at the time , seemed to support this view . |
| 7 | In the early post-war years it was difficult even to stay alive , with low rations , a fuel shortage and an economy which worked by barter in the absence of a stable currency . |
| 8 | In the following ten years it rose to 80,000 . |
| 9 | Built in the year nine O nine , for six hundred years it was the largest enclosed building in the world . |
| 10 | When the BMJ , in its special commemorative number for the Queen 's Diamond Jubilee in 1897 , reviewed the development of the profession over the previous sixty years it was this aspect that it chose to trumpet . |
| 11 | A review of the Board 's work in November 197 1 indicated that in the previous five years it had approved six courses in librarianship and two in information science at a total of six colleges . |
| 12 | And for the next two or three hundred years it was very slow progress in terms of technical development although the industrial revolution came along as we all know . |
| 13 | After three dormant years it began humming like a computer , sucking in information of which it had been starved , until my head began to hurt physically with the effort . |
| 14 | After all these years it 'll be a real house and home again . |
| 15 | Even after all these years it still carries an authentic medieval flavour . |
| 16 | The poor duck must have crawled all that way , a hundred metres or more to that second patch of light ; our bright idea of putting the branches down after him to cover him up was pointless ; for all these years it would only have needed some more kids to have come along with torches or bits of burning paper to discover the body . |
| 17 | After all these years it had finally happened ! |
| 18 | And that was hid for many many years it had generations . |
| 19 | After all those years it was at last made clear to me why I had this fear . |
| 20 | I mean , after all those years it is difficult to take in . |
| 21 | According to Ata'i , Baghdad became a mevleviyet only in 947/1540–1 , some six years after the Ottomans had taken it : a marginal note adds that for those six years it had been administered by kasabat kadis . |
| 22 | However , other firms operating similar machines have found that after the first three years it becomes increasingly more costly in terms of repairs and maintenance to keep machinery of this type productive . |
| 23 | By the time CAMRA celebrated its first ten years it could pride itself on a large national membership and a series of hardhitting reports that had exposed the market domination of the big brewers and the shoddy beers they produced . |
| 24 | In the first four years it nearly halved the PSBR , or borrowing requirement , from 5 per cent of GDP in 1978 — 9 to 2.7 per cent in 1982 — 3 and Britain had a markedly tighter fiscal stance than her Western European neighbours . |
| 25 | The first crossing of the Atlantic entirely under steam power was made in 1833 and the ships which travelled that route were among the most famous in the history of steamships : the Mauretania held the Blue Riband or the fastest Atlantic crossing , but after twenty two years it was won by the Queen May . |
| 26 | After thirty long years it was time to forget the past . |
| 27 | For four hundred years it was owned by a succession of wealthy aristocrats … the valley , woodland and lakes seen as private possessions for their eyes only . |
| 28 | Two hundred years it 's stood there . |
| 29 | The insects were the first creatures to colonise the air and for a hundred million years it was theirs alone . |
| 30 | C. For nearly 200 million years it has rained on the Pennines . |