Example sentences of "[art] [det] years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He believes in his heart that Daisy has loved him during the many years they have not seen each other but he has pined over her . |
| 2 | When the meter man came for the last time he spoke of my aunt , and of the many years he had been to the house , so that he felt himself to be almost an old friend . |
| 3 | During the many years it was to remain at Scampton R5868 was maintained and also given the occasional coat of paint . |
| 4 | John , one of the PPLs at our flying club , had made a beautiful job of building his little Jodel and I had followed his progress closely over the several years it had taken him to complete it . |
| 5 | Within a few years we will see the majority of UK companies having smoking policies . ’ |
| 6 | And now what they 're saying is , well we 'll buy out those appeals , if you had your appeal running for a few years we 'll give you five hundred pound ex gratia payment . |
| 7 | In the space of a few years we had Eldon Square in Newcastle , the Cleveland Centre in Middlesbrough , Milburngate in Durham , where you could stroll heedless of weather and traffic . |
| 8 | Certainly over the years the the major proportion of our fire fighting , in terms of secondary fires , what we term secondary fires , the bonfires , was always concentrated around this period and going back quite a few years we used to have special appliances put on standby , extra crews and so on . |
| 9 | Give or take a few years they are contemporaries , and yet historically people place Brian Way very much earlier . |
| 10 | After a few years they may find that not enough of their nature is being fulfilled . |
| 11 | Because they arrive with an expectation of moving on within a few years they refrain — ; if only for reasons of emotional self-defence — from putting down ‘ roots ’ and involving themselves too closely in village affairs . |
| 12 | There was a lovely tree outside old Boots shop there they took all them away and put these little ones down the middle and I also brought it up when they did Weekday Cross they took the trees which had only been there a few years they took them all down and put put some others up some little twiggly things you know . |
| 13 | Within a few years it had 200 local groups , had organized the first London rally against nuclear power ( in 1977 ) , and had effectively intervened in the debate about British nuclear policy . |
| 14 | Within a few years it was the Guns Mill Paper Company . |
| 15 | Within a few years it had evolved into the ASEA , and by 1909 there were seventeen affiliated committees in London and ten in the provinces . |
| 16 | For a few years it would undoubtedly be more expensive to cable Britain with optical-fibre links directly into the home . |
| 17 | But in a few years it could find applications in the long-term treatment of parasitic diseases , and even as a contraceptive pill . |
| 18 | And for a few years it had just about done so . |
| 19 | For a few years it has a monopoly in world markets and a good order book . |
| 20 | For a few years it has a monopoly in world markets and a good order book . |
| 21 | League is concerned , is the amount of money coming into the game and the danger that over a few years it could widen the division between the haves and the have-nots . |
| 22 | Within a few years he could have looked almost as menacing as he did six months ago . |
| 23 | After a few years he was able to believe that guilt itself was an indulgence , that he did n't need to suffer it unless he chose . |
| 24 | In a few years he 'll have developed a big enough ass to occupy my chair . ’ |
| 25 | Over a few years he disposed of about £40,000 . |
| 26 | At an early age he was apprenticed to the lace trade in Nottingham , but in about 1820 moved to Chard in Somerset , a centre of lace-making , and was so successful that within a few years he had established his own business as a manufacturer of bobbins and bobbin carriages . |
| 27 | Merceron 's political career began in 1787 , and within a few years he had became a vestryman , a tax commissioner , and a justice of the peace . |
| 28 | For a few years he was a lecturer in divinity at Hertford College and in 1911 published A Gospel Monogram . |
| 29 | Cavan 's biggest problem is tradition according to Reilly , so much so that if a manager does n't deliver the goods within a few years he 's gone and a new one comes along . |
| 30 | Having worked at Billingham for a few years he was appointed as a commissioning engineer for an ammonia plant in Canada before moving in 1985 to manage the leading concept ammonia [ LCA ] plant at Severnside , Avonmouth . |