Example sentences of "[adj] years [noun] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For over 30 years Israel had no need of excuses . |
| 2 | For some years attempts had been made to prohibit the sale of firearms and a Pistols Bill had been presented to Parliament in 1893 . |
| 3 | For some years Joshua had nursed a gentle passion for collecting early Staffordshire pottery : not the Victorian mantelshelf dogs , or even the soldiers and sailors of the Crimean War , but the turn-of-the-nineteenth-century stuff , the square-based figures of gods and goddesses , busts of great men ( few women ) , and resist lustre jugs . |
| 4 | Some years Christmas began in November and did n't finish until February or March . |
| 5 | For some years Emily had kept a number of English sheep dogs or ‘ bobtails ’ and her favourite was a small one which she called ‘ Bobbie ’ . |
| 6 | There were apparently no immediate takers as for some years Charles continued to run Eastington 's three mills , but now in conjunction with Beards and Bonds Mills , just outside the parish . |
| 7 | For about forty years Clanricarde spoke frequently in the House of Lords on a wide range of subjects . |
| 8 | At the beginning of the 19th century the condition of the agricultural workers was desperately poor and for the next forty years wages did not improve . |
| 9 | For the last few years Pinfield had been based with the Langham Group , a somewhat elitist special projects body under Anthony Pellisier charged with producing very experimental forms of drama — using techniques like inlay , overlay and split screening ; for example , matting caption slide backgrounds over black drape stages . |
| 10 | However , in the first few years groups did not appear to consider fundraising a priority . |
| 11 | Within a few years clubs appeared all over the country . |
| 12 | In the course of a few years Hider had managed to undo a thousand-year-long German expansion eastwards . |
| 13 | The last few years Sarah had practically suffocated her only daughter . |
| 14 | His success was short-lived and within a few years Ivan had to accept Turkish suzerainty . |
| 15 | Over the next few years Yakovlev continued to design and build a variety of successful single-engined biplanes and monoplanes and in July 1934 he was given a derelict bed factory on Moscow Leningradski Prospekt where he set up his own OKB and this has remained the headquarters ever since and also now holds the Museum . |
| 16 | Over the previous few years capitalists had been hit by the European wage explosions and a general worsening of industrial relations . |
| 17 | Over the next few years Japanese took over much of the administration and established mechanisms for economic pre-eminence . |
| 18 | Within a few years Raffles had realised his dream . |
| 19 | It was six years Peter mentioned ! |
| 20 | By the end of the six years Japan possessed a younger stock of machine tools than the United Kingdom or the United States : 40 per cent was less than five years old . |
| 21 | After a reign of only six years Charibert died . |
| 22 | It was not the end of the Orcs of course , and in the following years Sigmar took the battle deep into the forests and mountains , rooting out Goblin strongholds and driving his enemies ever deeper into the wilds . |
| 23 | In following years France had indeed benefited from the financial bonanza unleashed in Iran by the oil price rise . |
| 24 | In the following years Kádár eliminated all opposition and reinstated forced collectivisation in the villages . |
| 25 | In the following years Kossuth turned to journalism with a keen sense that his mission was to reawaken Hungarian nationality . |
| 26 | In those early years Laura believed that the prints were more important than the styles . |
| 27 | Although in the early years control did largely rest with the imperial family , others increasingly came to wield power in its name , and the years after 1185 saw hegemony pass to a succession of military rulers who achieved pre-eminent influence by virtue of superior military strength . |
| 28 | During the next eight years Christie served a number of prison sentences for theft and , on one occasion , assault . |
| 29 | For eight years Endill roamed around the big house , helping make the soups , walking through the hills , digging up the vegetables , bumping into his father by mistake and unscrewing the furniture when his mother was n't looking . |
| 30 | In all the intervening years Chant had wondered if he had attempted a second summoning alone , and been the voiders ' victim . |