Example sentences of "[adj] years it be " in BNC.
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| 1 | After nearly 30 years it is the station 's biggest single money-spinner , accounting for the lion 's share of its sales to the ITV network . |
| 2 | Demolition trains became a regular sight on Sundays during 1987 however , and for the first time in over 30 years it was possible to photograph trains without the hindrance of electric stanchions . |
| 3 | this one was the biggest and best in a long while … for the first time in 30 years it was open to professionals as well as amateurs and drew in two former world champions in Tony Doyle and Danny Clark and three Milk Race winners in … |
| 4 | Some years it was bad , other years not so bad . |
| 5 | For over forty years it was illegal in Indonesia to kill , capture or keep an orang-utan in captivity . |
| 6 | Yes it would , it would not be properly to , to just make one comment and that is that the next five hundred thousand that the local is therefore two point six million from the reserve fund , that is substainable for two and a half years it is not substainable beyond . |
| 7 | The economy has been so strong in the last few years it 's going to take a lot to bring it down . ’ |
| 8 | Within a few years it was the Guns Mill Paper Company . |
| 9 | For the last few years it was held up by 20 players of outstanding international standard and we did not realise that technically we were dying ’ . |
| 10 | Accreditation was not a concept that had gained currency in Britain at this time , and in developments over the next few years it was to receive a variety of interpretations in British further and higher education . |
| 11 | There is also considerable evidence ( as marshalled by Ingram 1975 ) to suggest that up to the age of six years it is mainly short , simple but still hierarchically structured sentences that the child is able to produce . |
| 12 | The picture which has emerged over the last five or six years it is very different than the one painted above . |
| 13 | We , we , it 's fairly clear that the manual gears is virtually , within five or six years it 's going to be very , very , very small . |
| 14 | After six years it was time for me to move on to Debenham High School . |
| 15 | In its early years it was called the Ulster Saturday Night , but this was soon extended to its present title Ireland 's Saturday Night . |
| 16 | I mean for instance on the question of identification after 45 years it 's very difficult , I saw that in the Demianuk trial , to get satisfactory er evidence , but of course er I think British rules of evidence probably would simply mean it was excluded if that was the case , and it was fairly done and the law were n't changed and it was the law as it stands er then I 'd be in favour of it . |
| 17 | For 45 years it was the home of the Wiltshire historian Canon Jackson . |
| 18 | In the intervening years it is estimated that 111 died while trying to escape and a further 77 lost their lives on the Berlin Wall itself , with most of these deaths occurring in the 1960s . |
| 19 | In later years it was fed by a banded iron pipe still in place . |
| 20 | As in previous years it was difficult to monitor the fighting in Cambodia during 1990 , as independent confirmation of conflicting claims was extremely rare . |
| 21 | For a dozen years it was a vintage period in all respects . |
| 22 | As a result , artists feel that if they have parted company with their manager after three years it is unfair if their previous manager continues to take commission on album sales for another seven years . |
| 23 | In a world where , far from becoming ‘ paperless ’ , our output of printed material is doubling every three years it is hardly surprising that any attempt to increase our efficient use of paper is rapidly accepted . |
| 24 | If a viable product is not produced in a total of three years it is felt that the project should be abandoned since the technology in use will have been superseded and a competitive product is likely to be nearing launch . |
| 25 | If a viable product is not produced in a total of three years it is felt that the project should be abandoned since the technology in use will have been superseded and a competitive product is likely to be nearing launch . |
| 26 | After three years it was possible to revert to your own name or to have another false one , thereby preserving the anonymity . |
| 27 | So after less than three years it was removed to Cleveland Lodge in Great Ayton which was the home of John Pease . |
| 28 | ‘ When a person has been underground for so many years it 's a new lease of life ’ ; ‘ it 's just a grand feeling . ’ |
| 29 | It might n't seem like a happy arrangement but after so many years it 's become one . |
| 30 | For many years it was considered that tea-bags were filled only with tea dust , the fine residue left after the sorting and packaging of tea , and that the drink obtained by using bags was therefore of very inferior quality . |