Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] years has " in BNC.
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| 1 | A man hailed as a hero for fifty years has been unmasked as a traitor . |
| 2 | So he has given , God gives this power within , power of the holy spirit , the indwelling Christ , in you and in me , so I 've got no advantage over you , and you have no advantage over me and the person who 's been a Christian for fifty years has n't got an advantage over the Christian who 's been a Christian for one day because that same power that raised Christ from the dead , hear that , the same power that God used to raise Christ from the dead , that is the same power that dwells in you and in me , that 's what the bible says . |
| 3 | If nothing catches the eye , walk a few blocks to West 47th street , between Fifth and Sixth Avenues , to browse at the Gotham Book Mart ( ’ Wise men fish here , ’ says the sign ) , which , for 70 years has specialised in literature and arts . |
| 4 | For interest shejoined the Southwark ordination course to study Theology and for some years has written a regular Bible commentary for her Parish Magazine . |
| 5 | Her shock decision to leave the programme after six years has stunned Beeb bosses . |
| 6 | Thailand 's Professor Pilai Poonswad , who for 10 years has been studying four species of forest hornbills , pointed out that the birds nest in large Dipterocarps and that their taste in trees was something they shared with loggers . |
| 7 | Thus to honour the first of the Roman emperors an orderly arrangement was reduced to an illogical jumble that many people find difficult to remember but which in the course of 2,000 years has been successfully imposed on most of the world . |
| 8 | The Pilling Circular Tour of pre-war years has recently been revived using vintage trams and buses . |
| 9 | To quote one Brazilian professor , ‘ Everyone over the age of three years has got scabies ’ . |
| 10 | This former schoolmaster and magistrate of 18 years has sat with 50 mediums 130 times to further his quest for knowledge about what we might call ‘ the other side ’ . |
| 11 | In only 5 of 11 years has P. albimonus been the commonest species , four others having occupied that position ; in 1977 Episyrphus balteatus formed nearly half the total catch ; in 1976 , a third of the species caught were represented by one individual ; and the number of individuals per species has varied from 20 in 1981 to over 120 in 1978 . |
| 12 | Thus , in 1973 , we are no wiser than we were in 1948 : the experience of twenty-five years has shed no more light upon the question , does the death penalty deter ? than was available at the beginning — except perhaps that the neutrality of the evidence , which I have explained I find so logically impressive , has been reinforced . |
| 13 | It will be readily apparent that the section is silent on the question which arises in the present case , namely whether a minor who has attained the age of 16 years has an absolute right to refuse medical treatment . |
| 14 | The best part of 38 years has passed since 13:1 . |
| 15 | In any case , it is not clear why the period of five years has been chosen . |
| 16 | However , the inner city depopulation of recent years has led to falling rolls in city schools and the consequent rationalisation of local education has caused certain Board schools to become redundant , releasing them for alternative uses . |
| 17 | The instrumental guitar album boom of recent years has seen few players survive with their credibility intact . |
| 18 | A feature of recent years has been the degree to which the differing agencies — HMI , the DES , Further Education Unit , and NBHS ( now renamed Skill : National Bureau for Students with Disabilities ) have worked together . |
| 19 | Undoubtedly the most popular , indeed cuddly , alien of recent years has been ET — perhaps Gremlins ( 1984 ) was even conceived partly as an ‘ answer ’ to ET . |
| 20 | For example , the change in the sex ratio of recent years has resulted in fewer women remaining single , but single women were heavily relied on in certain social fields , as teachers , social workers , nurses and residential staff ; a shortage could have a marked effect on the staffing position in these fields . |
| 21 | The economic restructuring of recent years has had a traumatic effect on the estates , with massive job loss and factory closure transforming them into increasingly isolated , state-managed ‘ subsistence communities ’ . |
| 22 | The art critic , Peter Fuller , considers : " One worrying feature of recent years has been the fashionable appropriation of the language of the " spiritual " to defend work of a numbing vacuity " ( Fuller 1990 : 18 ) . |
| 23 | One of the most interesting developments of recent years has been the emergence of a theory of discourse intonation . |
| 24 | The Dunedin study ( quoted by De Melker as confirming that children with persistent effusions at a young age have problems with learning , language , and development until at least the age of 7–9 years has now produced follow up data ( reported at the international symposium on otitis media with effusion , Fort Lauderdale , 1991 ) to age 16 which shows that these educational and developmental problems continued , and that reading age in untreated patients remained two years behind their treated controls . |
| 25 | Within a time span of two years has emerged an extensive network of education business practitioners using a variety of backgrounds and experiences in a variety of operating conditions . |
| 26 | A prized garden which has been tended by the same family for sixty years has been wrecked by an out-of-control car . |
| 27 | The shock is that the hand throttle , beloved of tractor makers for 80 years has gone . |
| 28 | Her companion for many years has agreed to move out in return for a sum of £34,000 . |
| 29 | He exhibits protecting and guarding qualities and for many years has been used as a Schutzhund sport dog . |
| 30 | A continuously low level of investment for many years has stunted the possibility of the ‘ First Industrial Revolution ’ turning into a ‘ Second ’ . |