Example sentences of "[adj] for [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having led the world into polyester fibre and been highly profitable for many years , we lost the lead position due to a combination of circumstances . |
| 2 | It had originally been left to her by a noted amateur ornithologist and eccentric with whom she had been friendly for many years . |
| 3 | The proposals , described as the most far-reaching for 50 years , were expected to be the subject of intense lobbying from the financial and banking sectors when they came before Congress for approval . |
| 4 | This is a beautiful , small twelfth-century room , used as a stable for many years after the depredations of the Revolution but carefully restored in the 1850s . |
| 5 | David Philip , chairman , described trading conditions as the ‘ poorest for many years . ’ |
| 6 | Except on North America voyages , and despite falling unemployment and rising real wages in the country as a whole , seamen 's wages rose little for some years . |
| 7 | Sagging wicker garden chairs , shabby trunks , cat baskets , camping stoves , old tennis racquets , fishing waders , and Paul 's pram , unused for nine years , were housed here , jostling each other , and coated with dust , bird droppings and the debris from ancient nests in the beams above . |
| 8 | ‘ People seem to think we are getting rid of all the books but the only ones we have done away with are those which had been hidden away unused for many years . ’ |
| 9 | The most notable was Windsor and Eton , where it is possible to see it now in its pristine state , for in 1983 Madame Tussaud 's opened the fully restored and refurbished royal station , adjoining the main Windsor terminal and unused for thirty years . |
| 10 | AN ARTIST whose talents lay unused for 20 years headed an exhibition by five women at the weekend . |
| 11 | The expenditure negotiations this autumn are expected to be the toughest for many years . |
| 12 | Ministers expect the current public spending round to be the toughest for many years as the Government seeks to maintain its anti-inflation policy outside the ERM disciplines . |
| 13 | In all this Basil 's sense of humour , kindliness , and perception both of personalities as well as of every aspect of the visual arts , were a great help and encouragement to me , and I shall always be grateful for those years in , the West Riding when I knew and worked with him . |
| 14 | That charge has been wrong-headed for some years ; nevertheless , it has been sustained by enough left-wing activity to feed Conservative propaganda . |
| 15 | Interest rates had already been low for twenty years when the turnpike mania began in 1750 and remained low after it ended in 1772 . |
| 16 | The annual floods had been low for some years , and conditions in the villages were very bad . |
| 17 | The First Deputy Chair of the Supreme Council , Andrejs Krastins , claimed in an Interior Ministry statement reported on May 5 that accusations in the Atmoda-Atpute newspaper that he had been recruited into the KGB in 1980 for three years were an attempt to compromise the resolution . |
| 18 | He did this by making three of the sentences , each for 14 years , run consecutively instead of concurrently . |
| 19 | As I mentioned on the phone yesterday : update on music permissions that have developed since last week : Waterfront ( Simple Minds ) ( confirmation awaited from artists ) and I Like Driving in my Car ( Madness ) will be £75 each for 3 years ' world license , excluding USA . |
| 20 | AFTER being ill-served for many years by the investment industry , the small investor at last has a choice of funds which follow share indices . |
| 21 | The award ceremony took place in the canteen on a December afternoon where over 100 retired and serving members of the work force were gathered , making it the largest for many years . |
| 22 | Perhaps the most emotive case of the Supreme Court 's term involves a young Missouri woman kept alive for six years in what doctors call a ‘ persistent vegetative state ’ . |
| 23 | Via infected leaves these winter spores enter the soil where they can remain alive for several years . |
| 24 | but Pete if he , I mean I do n't see why he does n't if he went private for two years he 'd make enough to retire , in two years , no sweat , he wo n't have to work again , I mean I bet his house is paid for |
| 25 | The new bridge , designed by W.H. Barlow , was of wrought-iron lattice girder construction , like the old , but proper scientific calculations were made this time to allow for lateral wind pressure — the first time scientific studies of such stresses were made — and the new Tay Bridge , still the longest railway bridge in Britain at just over 2 miles , has stood solid for 100 years , linking Dundee with Fife . |
| 26 | The Hill of Dreams , one of the period 's most remarkable and decadent novels , was completed in 1897 but remained unpublished for ten years . |
| 27 | He 's been the club 's professional for 26 years and an amateur member before that so he knows a thing or two about the old place . |
| 28 | In fact , he has only been working as a professional for three years or so , and has had to learn his trade by trial and error . |
| 29 | Harry Wood , a professional for twenty years with Surrey and along with Abel one of three who went ‘ on strike ’ in 1896 demanding a £20 match fee to play the Australians , left the game a bitter man . |
| 30 | His memories of Heather , bolstered by his possession of her photographs , had given him courage and hope , emotions to which he had been a stranger for more years than he cared to remember . |