Example sentences of "[prep] [det] years it " in BNC.
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| 1 | She points out that after battling against the booze for some years it only took a short relapse to destroy much of what she 'd worked for . |
| 2 | ‘ Naturally these past few years it has n't been worn . |
| 3 | The cultural formation , at this level , is still alternative , but in the crisis of those years it was both necessarily involved in political activities , with direct and dangerous consequences , and in an overlap between what might in a different period be seen as separate kinds of practice ; as Godwin justly observed in 1794 , ‘ the humble novelist might be shown to be constructively a traitor ’ . |
| 4 | For most consensus theorists , the answer lies in a theory of social structure made famous by Durkheim in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and developed to such an extent by Talcott Parsons and his followers in the USA between the 1930s and 1950s that during these years it came to be seen as the sociological theory . |
| 5 | When two humans have lived together for many years it usually happens that each has tones of voice and expressions of face which are almost unendurably irritating to the other . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Considerable attention has been focused on the distinction between causing grievous bodily harm ( section 18 ) and inflicting grievous bodily harm ( section 20 ) : for many years it was believed that the more restrictive word ‘ inflict ’ meant that section 20 required proof of a sufficiently direct action by D to constitute an assault , but the House of Lords has now decided that there can be an ‘ infliction ’ of GBH without proof of an assault . |
| 8 | For many years it had been thought that high fever had certain curative properties , and some patients were deliberately exposed to mosquitoes which were known to be carrying the malarial parasite in the hope that the resulting infection and high temperature would have a beneficial effect on the disease process . |
| 9 | For many years it was a centre for cave exploration but was recently acquired by the Royal Signals for adventure and training . |
| 10 | For many years it was accepted that two-tone fish ( it occurs with other species , but rarely ) are the result of winter hibernation , the dark portion of the fish being the part that is buried in bottom mud . |
| 11 | For many years it was thought that the wreck was a Spitfire , but after delving through archives at the RAF Museum along with information gleaned from various specialist publications , it was discovered that the aircraft was a Curtiss P-40 Tomahawk flown by a Canadian pilot , Harold Fraser-English of 400 Squadron , operating out of Weston Zoyland . |
| 12 | I should perhaps explain that for many years it had been a regulation in UK registered public transport aircraft that when flying below 15 000 feet hand operated microphones were prohibited . |
| 13 | Even Saudi Arabia , which encouraged its citizens to give money to the Afghan rebel cause — for many years it matched America 's covert financing — is now trying to stop the flow . |
| 14 | For many years it lay ignored in store , but was restored a few years ago ; its lack of finish is particularly significant . |
| 15 | For many years it was described in the Fell and Rock Climbing Club guide as having ‘ one very small and easy pitch about halfway up . ’ |
| 16 | For many years it hung in Thorpe Hall . |
| 17 | For many years it was supposed that nothing should be revealed about the bargainer 's intentions . |
| 18 | Birds respond to a wide range of sounds but for many years it was assumed that their low-frequency hearing was poorer than ours . |
| 19 | For many years it has been known that black people are more likely than whites to be admitted to hospital for treatment of mental disorder , more likely to be admitted compulsorily following being arrested in a public place by the police and far more likely to be diagnosed as having schizophrenia than white people . |
| 20 | For many years it was thought that in the absence of express provision in the original constitution the continued equality of all shares was a fundamental condition which could not be abrogated by an alteration of the articles so as to allow the issue of shares preferential to those already issued . |
| 21 | For many years it has been claimed that the level of taxes and services is an important factor in moving house . |
| 22 | For many years it has enjoyed an outstanding reputation in Latin American studies , and recent publications in this area include Edwin Williamson , The Penguin History of Latin America . |
| 23 | During those years it has built over two thousand seven hundred ships , including four hundred war ships for the Royal Navy . |
| 24 | It was a phrase with many shades of meaning , but essentially in these years it came to refer to that freedom from lay intervention in ecclesiastical appointments and operations which it was Hugh 's special mission to promote . |
| 25 | In those years it is the sudden traumatic experience which may be the spark to engage fierce enthusiasms in their educational development . |
| 26 | Wherein their Superior Effects for the cure of gun-shot wounds … ‘ , but in those years it was still an uncouth place , better fitted to receive the injured soldiery than sickly , comfort-loving bourgeois . |
| 27 | For several years it appears it remained empty , but by 1845 was back in business , with tenants John and Edward Wise producing cloth . |
| 28 | For several years it looked like Billy Bremner had calmed down , the excessive niggling was more controlled and the bristling temper was kept on a leash , but trouble was always brooding just beneath the surfaces . |
| 29 | Released from the Vickers factory at Brooklands on September 25 , 1953 , Varsity T.1 WL679 spent most of its life at Farnborough , although for several years it was based at Pershore . |
| 30 | But for several years it remained extremely basic , with only small , medium and large sizes remotely possible so long as the styles were kept simple . |