Example sentences of "[adj] years the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Within 30 years the brewing industry has gone from a cottage industry to high tech . ’ |
| 2 | What this broadening and wide variation demonstrates is that over the past 30 years the issue of child abuse has become symbolically and politically very powerful ( Parton , 1985 ; Nelson , 1986 ) in arguments about the welfare state and the family . |
| 3 | Over the last 30 years the Trust has helped build 26 village schools , two hospitals and 12 medical centres . |
| 4 | During the last 30 years the rise of an international market for recordings and the renewed interest in earlier repertory have done much to enhance the English drive towards higher choral standards which began ( it might be claimed ) at King 's College , Cambridge , in the 1920's . |
| 5 | For some 30 years the toxins produced inside the Tb bacterium ( δ-endotoxins ) have been used in commercial insecticides . |
| 6 | Oxfords and brogue styles have been standard office issue for most of this century , but in the last 30 years the loafer has — thanks to its American and Italian perfectors — become a relaxed and stylish alternative to lace-ups , but there are purists who still harbour doubts about its suitability for the boardroom . |
| 7 | In the past 30 years the design and manufacture of bone china has been considerably developed and today combines the latest in ceramic technology with craft skills . |
| 8 | Over the past 30 years the region 's forest cover has fallen from 42% to less than 15% . |
| 9 | In the last 30 years the number of over-60s has risen by almost 50 per cent in the EC , from 46.5 million to 68.6 million , according to the survey by the EC 's statistical office . |
| 10 | In some years the rite of Mass can serve our next and further Masses . |
| 11 | With the Hammersmith team he took part in the evolution of the heart-lung machine and for some years the Melrose pump-oxygenator was the standard in Britain . |
| 12 | But to pursue this matter would have delayed for some years the opening of much needed services . |
| 13 | For some years the SSD has funded a Centre for Integrated Living ( CIL ) , which is run by disabled people . |
| 14 | After some years the designs from the Empire influenced fashionable people in their taste , and Roman style bronze brooches and bangles , some of them made in Britain , were worn by the men and women of prosperous families . |
| 15 | Few of the elderly male messengers now remained , and for some years the Department had recruited women . |
| 16 | For some years the recordings of well-known choirs , such as King 's College , Cambridge , have had a steady and growing market . |
| 17 | Peak numbers were usually present in September or particularly October , but in some years the autumn peak was as late as November . |
| 18 | For some years the DES collected statistics from LEAs in which children had to be classified into these three headings . |
| 19 | For some years the convict prisons , already the responsibility of central government , remained technically separate entities , but both were brought under the dominant authority of one man , Sir Edmund Du Cane . |
| 20 | After the car had been there for some years the defendant wished to convert the yard into a garage but was unable to communicate with the plaintiff . |
| 21 | Enormous growth in this business occurred through the substitution phase and for a period of some years the business was extremely profitable . |
| 22 | For some years the family had lived on the island of Rousay , where both the Social Work and Education Departments were actively involved with them , having been alerted by the school to concerns over the welfare of the children . |
| 23 | For some years the town 's symbol has been The Tower on the Moor . |
| 24 | ‘ It depends on the demand in the trade at the time but some years the training classes are full and sometimes there 's hardly any recruits at all , ’ he explained . |
| 25 | It has been said that ‘ … during the last forty years the United Kingdom has moved away from the nationality citizenship model ’ . |
| 26 | Over the last forty years the Women 's Fellowship has made an invaluable contribution to the life of the church . |
| 27 | For three and a half years the Beeson Ward at Oxford 's Radcliffe Infirmary has been looking after elderly people — those who need specialist care after major surgery . |
| 28 | For two and a half years the Empire was subjected to heavy casualties on the battlefield , acute economic austerity , and massive social dislocation . |
| 29 | My Lords , for about two and a half years the defendant , Mr. Gary Thomas , made his home with his brother Webster in a council house 29 , Juniper Court , Morris Road , London , E.15 which belonged to and was let by the respondent local authority the Waltham Forest London Borough Council ( ‘ the plaintiffs ’ ) to Webster . |
| 30 | During the last few years the notion of ‘ citizenship ’ has been increasingly and widely discussed amongst different constituencies addressing different aspects of the topic , with somewhat confusing consequences . |