Example sentences of "[adj] years [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | There may be a latent period of 30 years before it actually erupts . |
| 2 | Golf 's popularity was putting pressure on the course because more local people played , and earlier in the day than previously , so the Artisans ' starting time was brought forward to ‘ no later than 8.30 a.m. ’ ( 30 years before it was 9.30 a.m . ) . |
| 3 | The technique in question is Bob Blake 's Managerial Grid , still going strong 30 years after it was developed in the US , and likely to show new life in the UK now that management consultants P-E International have taken on the somewhat dusty licence . |
| 4 | Harry put in 410 League appearances for Crystal Palace and that stood as a record for over 30 years until it was overtaken by Terry Long in the late 1960s . |
| 5 | The drug 's being tested by cancer specialists … although it could be some years before it 's generally available . |
| 6 | It is some years since it became generally if reluctantly accepted that sport and politics can not be separated . |
| 7 | I stayed with Robert Fraser for some years and it all ended with Robert going to jail on the famous drug bust with the Rolling Stones . |
| 8 | There are so many compensations for everyone in the family during the teenage years that it is a grave mistake to look on the black side . |
| 9 | erm she said she thought everything would be okay apart from partial blind due to accident after teenage years cos it 's basically it 's actually a college |
| 10 | The Black Sea only recycles its water once in every 140 years and it is estimated Turkish beaches will remain contaminated by waste for more than a century . |
| 11 | However the subscription has not gone up for 2 years and it is only a 15p per week rise . |
| 12 | Particularly Old Speckled Hen could survive ; they 've only been brewing it there in its present form for 2 years and it would be easy for us to transfer that production to their specifications using Morland 's yeast . |
| 13 | For The Silmarillion at least , though not published till 1977 , four years after its author 's death , was in existence as a ‘ narrative structure ’ not long after the First World War , while a version of it was submitted to George Allen & Unwin for publication forty years before it eventually came out . |
| 14 | ONE HUNDRED and forty years after it vanished from Windsor Castle in mysterious circumstances , a pornographic drawing of an hermaphrodite angel by Leonardo da Vinci has been discovered in Germany . |
| 15 | Forty years after it all but vanished , the humble eel could be about to make a comeback . |
| 16 | The position of Gaelic has deteriorated dramatically in the intervening forty years and it is now argued convincingly that a local language is itself a development tool . |
| 17 | ‘ I just told him I had n't won an Oscar for almost forty years and it was about time , that 's all . |
| 18 | An appearance by Reagan , Le Monde suggested , might still save the show , even two and a half years after it had started . |
| 19 | She stared at it now , hardly able to believe that it was two and a half years since it had been taken . |
| 20 | It 's closing down … declared a fire safety risk … only a few years after it was reopened . |
| 21 | It is not known whether or not he ever returned to visit his mother during the first few years but it is certainly true that , latterly , he was not back in the county for many years . |
| 22 | ‘ Glasgow 's had a facelift in the past few years but it 's no more than that . |
| 23 | A single budded standard , or a double where one has failed , can look distinctly lop-sided for the first few years until it has had time to develop — this is the sort of stuff you have to watch out for in the cheap ‘ end of season nursery clearance sales ’ and street markets . |
| 24 | It is intended that this system , which will presumably be the basis for pool allocations for some years to come , will be refined during the next few years as it works out in practice . |
| 25 | The German railway system is facing major structural changes over the next few years as it struggles to rebuild its share of the transport market . |
| 26 | THERE 'S been a revolution in media over the last few years and it 's going to continue at an ever-increasing pace for sometime to come . |
| 27 | While other European Community countries are increasingly aware of the vulnerability of land , however , Britain 's pioneering national field-by-field soil survey remains incomplete , 53 years after it began . |
| 28 | THIS WEEK 'S best movie is the classic thriller , Body Heat ( Cert 18 ; W.E. ) , which is still sizzling 12 years after it was first released . |
| 29 | The substance of this report was that , almost 300 years after it had condemned Galileo for saying that the Earth revolved around the Sun , the Roman Catholic Church announced that it was to re-examine his case ‘ with full objectivity ’ . |
| 30 | The EC is joining with countries bordering the Rhine in a plan to reintroduce salmon to the river , six years after it was declared ecologically-dead as a result of the Sandoz chemical plant . |