Example sentences of "[adj] years [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some years passage continues into June ; for example , in June 1970 , 640 were seen passing off Selsey Bill . |
| 2 | Some years Christmas began in November and did n't finish until February or March . |
| 3 | The directors therefore propose , as resolution No. 8 that authority be given at this years AGM to amend the rules of the Scheme so that the absolute limit will be increased to 9,260,761 shares representing 5% of the current issued share capital . |
| 4 | As Mr Gladstone has pointed out , in the last few years progress has been far more rapid because improved education has created in all classes of the community an increased desire and appetite for literature which did not formerly exist , and that can only be supplied by means of such public libraries in which we are now met . |
| 5 | Over the last few years work has been carried out on using machine readable dictionaries as a source of linguistic knowledge ( Amsler , 1981 ) , ( Boguraev & Briscoe , 1987 ) — thereby enabling the production of a large vocabulary lexicon for considerably less effort than was previously required . |
| 6 | Over the next few years Japanese took over much of the administration and established mechanisms for economic pre-eminence . |
| 7 | the other option of course is not to do that and to try and gain some experience erm m maybe voluntary for some of the time so that maybe I can then spend you know in another years time get a job which is a bit more relevant and I 'll be able to earn some money . |
| 8 | Throughout the past 300 years racism has distorted Western thinking about other people and their cultures . |
| 9 | The annual General Household Survey has only included questions on cohabitation since 1979 and estimates suggest that the proportion of women aged 18 to 49 years cohabiting has doubled from 3 per cent in 1979 to 6 per cent in 1987 . |
| 10 | I guess that over the last six years television has given him only a quarter of her exposure . |
| 11 | On the debit side , over the past 10 years output reduced by 35 million tonnes or 28 per cent. , but the parallel decrease in consumption is much less . |
| 12 | Over the past 10 years AI has documented more than 4000 cases of ‘ disappeared ’ people in Peru , scores of summary executions and at least 15 massacres by the security forces . |
| 13 | The product of umpteen years research has just been revealed : The Black Hornet . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In all the intervening years Chant had wondered if he had attempted a second summoning alone , and been the voiders ' victim . |
| 16 | So anyone who wants to study competition , travel and world capitalism in the 1980s for a PhD programme in fifty years time had better take a good look now . |
| 17 | During these years plague had ravaged through the whole of England , and had already wiped out whole parishes , and in particular the parish of Dode . |
| 18 | Deputy Curator Rob Shorland Ball stated that while there were no immediate plans for her future operation outside the museum there is still a further three years life left on her ‘ normal ’ boiler certificate . |
| 19 | In the past three years subject has been associated with at least two men other than her husband in circumstances giving rise to a strong presumption that the relationships were of a sexual nature … |
| 20 | Over the previous three years perestroika had become a reality ; the Soviet people themselves had changed , and were facing facts that had earlier been obscured from them . |
| 21 | The Synod has been here about three years running has n't it . |
| 22 | AFTER 21 years service has covered his drawing board for the last time to take up the more leisurely pursuits of photography and walking in his retirement . |
| 23 | For many years secondment has been a local activity of variable quality and quantity . |
| 24 | For many years radio has been the ‘ poor relation ’ of the media , attracting far less attention than , for instance , television or the newspapers . |
| 25 | For many years AI has been calling for an independent judicial inquiry to investigate the pattern of disputed killings by security forces in Northern Ireland in order to help prevent unlawful killings . |
| 26 | Within sixteen years tapestry-making had become an important and interesting local craft industry . |
| 27 | For fifteen thousand years computer has worked , thought , learnt , grown . |
| 28 | For ten long years Misery leaves him there , during which time no-one in the village dies . |
| 29 | Today the specialised and expensive training which demands a minimum of 5 years commitment continues . |
| 30 | The remaining seven months of Minutes up to January 1909 , when the 11 years silence started , give quite a few insights into the growing pains of a new untried enterprise , although some club business has a familiarly contemporary ring ! |