Example sentences of "[adj] years [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the room they had shared for 30 years since they had moved in to claim his inheritance . |
| 2 | All the old favourites are there in a medley of hits which , like him , have hardly failed to age over 30 years since they first hit the charts . |
| 3 | ‘ It is 30 years since my father 's first victory here and I am sure he would have been the first to have congratulated Ayrton on breaking his record of five wins . |
| 4 | Joan nursed at the Memorial for more than 30 years before she retired due to ill health . |
| 5 | Adding to his work of 30 years before he proved Galois ' assertion that if a finite group G contains pm elements , p being a prime , when G contains a subgroup of order p . |
| 6 | It took him more than 30 years before he told anyone other than friends of his terrifying experience . |
| 7 | There may be a latent period of 30 years before it actually erupts . |
| 8 | 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 . ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He still lives on the outskirts of his adopted city close on 30 years after he signed for them . |
| 11 | During his time at the flour mill ( which is actually 30 years if you include an earlier spell ) he has been mixerman , cuber operator , machine man , bran packer and even cleaner — when there were seven employees per shift ! |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I 'm beginning to be quite confident that we were right , though it will be some years before we can be really certain we 've made the breakthrough . |
| 14 | Though debt-for-equity swaps represent one way for banks to recover part of their developing country debt exposure , they still stand to lose money and look likely to have to wait for some years before they can cash in their equity stakes . |
| 15 | It was some years before they were replaced and the legend on the present bridge at the airport tells the story ; Built 1885 . |
| 16 | no it was some years before she re-married again |
| 17 | The drug 's being tested by cancer specialists … although it could be some years before it 's generally available . |
| 18 | It was some years before I went that way again , and something had happened . |
| 19 | It was some years before I actually tried to ride it , and that was all because of the kindness of Martin from Sunderland . |
| 20 | The high sides will help prevent the gravel being kicked into the garden , so it will be some years before you need to top it up . |
| 21 | Without a base , then , Mario had only his private ambitions to fulfil , and it was to be some years before he did . |
| 22 | LEFT Fred Hoyle in 1955 , some years before he , Bond i and Gold propounded the Steady State Theory of the Universe . |
| 23 | It is some years since it became generally if reluctantly accepted that sport and politics can not be separated . |
| 24 | It is some years since I was wont to use the language , though I spoke it often enough at home in Russia . |
| 25 | It was some years since I had seen his signature . |
| 26 | He added that it had been some years since he had been back in England . |
| 27 | It was not for some years after we had separated that I had to face the fact that the deepest part of one 's being is always inaccessible to another , and that only when we are lost in passion , eager above all else for our own gratification — yet unconscious that this is the case — that we ignore the gulf , forget that we are strangers . |
| 28 | They had lain dormant for some years after she had left the cottage , but he knew now they had simply been growing in the warm darkness of his being where love bred … |
| 29 | And reaching 30 in a recession is a special problem in itself — I may have to tread water in my career for some years because there is no chink of promotion in my business . |
| 30 | I had known Bruce for some years as he often ministered to friends , and on two or three occasions when he had laid his hands on my back , the heat emanating from them was like a blowtorch . |