Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] years have " in BNC.
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| 1 | The House is debating a complex Bill presented by a Government who for 12 years have said that legislation is not needed on consumer protection issues . |
| 2 | The length of that period depends on the seriousness of the punishment : where there has been any period of imprisonment between six months and thirty months , the conviction becomes " spent " after ten years have elapsed . |
| 3 | These past few years have seen a sharp decline in morality . |
| 4 | In addition , over 60% of the adult residents over the age of 12 years have some formal training in cardiopulmonary resuscitation ( CPR ) . |
| 5 | Two councillors who have served Hartlepool for a total of 26 years have been nominated Mayor and Deputy Mayor for the municipal year beginning on May 19 . |
| 6 | For very few of these past 170 years have Greeks felt properly in command of their own country . |
| 7 | As far as the government is concerned , such efforts seem to be too little , too late : the traumas of many years have created strong suspicion and resistance to any state interventions . |
| 8 | a These past 3 years have reinforced for us the importance of listening to relatives . |
| 9 | Bath players of recent years have never appeared as convincing for England as they regularly do for Bath ; while if they are part of one of those curious South-West sides their form goes down yet another notch . |
| 10 | The hot alpine summers of recent years have made these sort of conditions all too prevalent , particularly early in the season when there are masses of spring snow ready to melt . |
| 11 | The technical advances of recent years have made it possible for a particularly skilled artist , such as Matt Yuricich , working for instance on the final rooftop confrontation between Deckard ( Harrison Ford ) and Roy Batty ( Rutger Hauer ) in Blade Runner , to reduce the number of generations of film going into the composite ( ie action + backgrounds ) by imitating the colours of film rather than of nature ( or , in this case , of the concrete jungle ) . |
| 12 | Very few politicians of recent years have lived in simpler surroundings and with less show of luxury . |
| 13 | The new liturgical texts of recent years have generally lacked music to accompany them . |
| 14 | The changes of recent years have brought a small but measurable increase in the size of the audience , now at just under half a million listeners , in spite of its transmission being confined to AM at an off-peak time . |
| 15 | The public conflicts of recent years have involved confrontations between different political ideologies : the resistance from the Clay Cross Urban District to the Conservative Housing Finance Act ; the rejection by Merthyr County Borough of the Conservatives ' withdrawal of free milk for schoolchildren ; the resistance of a number of Conservative education authorities to the Labour commitment to the introduction of comprehensive secondary education ; the resistance of Labour local authorities to the Conservative government 's legislation on the sale of council houses ; and the forms of creative accounting developed in the mid-1980s by some local authorities to evade expenditure restraints . |
| 16 | Already it is possible to identify significant differences between changes in the distribution of population and employment , but the developments of recent years have sown the seeds for potentially much greater dislocation in the future . |
| 17 | The experiences of recent years have challenged this presumption , but the nettle has still not really been grasped . |
| 18 | Undoubtedly , the most dramatic events of recent years have been those associated with the disintegration of the communist regimes in Eastern Europe . |
| 19 | Although the minshuku of recent years have improved their western visitor facilities , they tend to be still family-run without the refinement of modern hotel management training for their staff . |
| 20 | Only a handful of letters for these years have been preserved ; fewer than for any similar period of his later life . |
| 21 | A condition heavily testing the social fabric in this area is the impact of AIDS ; more than half of the children between 0–13 years have lost both their parents and are in need of assistance . |
| 22 | Nor should it be assumed that siblings who have lived apart , sometimes married , for many years have broken these profound childhood links which shaped their attitudes to each other . |
| 23 | TWO residential homes which for many years have cared for young people and the elderly are being closed by the Salvation Army . |
| 24 | Equally no-one travelling on to Nicaragua could fail to notice the difference from Guatemala — people still have to live with civil war but for ten years have had a government that has actively promoted mental health . |
| 25 | Many of the initiatives laboured over in previous years have come to fruition and a host of new ventures has sprung up , bringing fresh opportunities and challenges . |
| 26 | Mr Fallon was told some forces in previous years have not been able to take up the extra posts , which have then been redistributed to other places . |
| 27 | Others who have undertaken the care of the church and halls in later years have been Mrs Bell , Mrs Carson , Mr and Mrs Redpath , Mr James Twyble , Mr John Lavery , Mrs David Binks , Mrs K McClatchey and Mr William McFadden . |
| 28 | Overall , by next April — when nearly 1 million people will gain from this year 's real increase , either directly through income support or through increased entitlement to housing or community charge benefit — we shall in three years have steered an extra one third of a billion pounds in real extra benefit to less well-off pensioners , in a way which I believe the whole House will welcome and support . |
| 29 | Wilkinson conceded that odds against the title going to Elland Road for the first time in 18 years have ‘ lengthened considerably ’ but he refused to throw in the towel . |
| 30 | Because of his fame , his history and his continued presence in the sport , as well as the strength of his personality , Emerson remained a figure ; but also the shadows lengthened about him and few who worked with him in those years have much good to say about their relationships with him or with his team . |