Example sentences of "[prep] [num] years they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is not it a sad reflection on the Government that after 12 years they have failed to provide the necessary skills training for our work force to make our industries competitive in world markets ? |
| 2 | Mr Smith added : ‘ There was no enthusiasm for this Government , no admiration for their performance , no sense that after 13 years they had delivered the goods , fulfilled promises or proved themselves worthy of the trust of the nation . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ If they ca n't get the NHS right after 13 years they never will , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Even after 37 years they give you problems from time to time . ’ |
| 5 | Even after five years they were finding it a bit difficult in Oxford , you see , a bit sticky . |
| 6 | After two years they die out , unable to complete with the grass and your nursery-raised seedlings , which are plug-planted into the award after the second mowing . |
| 7 | After two years they gave up prospecting and pulled out . |
| 8 | For six years they have transformed half an acre of bleak Cotswold cottage garden into a celebration of vibrancy . |
| 9 | oh , you know , that 's , that 's it because for thirteen years they have dismantled the social system , that 's what they 've done in thirteen years , so they ca n't say overnight , we 'll put it all back because there is n't , there , there is n't the finance there because they 've spent it all to have done what they 've done |
| 10 | At the end of three years they were no further on . |
| 11 | I saw my first reed bunting 's nest in 1964 in the marsh between the lochs of Spiggie and Brow , and now in the space of twenty-five years they have successfully colonised the islands , and theirs is the only bunting song that today 's Shetland children will know … |
| 12 | another mistake in the film was to suggest that in a a short franchise , say of seven years they would need a great deal of working capital , but they wo n't need a great deal of working capital or or share capital , they will actually be running a business where they get subsidy , because if er they 're involving socially necessary lines , like commuter lines , or or rural lines , then we 've made it very clear er that the taxpayers subsidy will continue , because these are loss making businesses , they will be bid they will bid for subsidy , and they will continue to get that subsidy , so they will have the flow of whatever income they can increase , in the passenger franchise , plus the subsidy , plus , and this is a very important point in what we 're doing in the restructuring of British Rail , you see , nobody up till now has said that British Rail is perfect , everyone acknowledges that there are big improvements to be made , the way we 're structuring it will get those improvements because the smaller franchises , not the great big monolithic nationalized industry , the smaller units , ha will be able to identify much more clearly where they can make the savings and where they can increase the revenue . |
| 13 | They chose a spot by a river , on the side of a mountain , they called three hundred workmen together , and for three years they toiled at building the city . |
| 14 | For three years they had neither met nor spoken . |
| 15 | For 11 years they stopped me from coming back here . |
| 16 | It 's the first time for 11 years they 've reached the final stages . |
| 17 | In 100 years they would regard that as pathetic . ’ |
| 18 | In three years they had rounded up fifty captive orangs . |
| 19 | The universities are also concerned that in three years they may be obliged to give any available permanent position to a WIPer instead of advertising it for open competition , thereby reducing their ability to attract the best talent . |
| 20 | In three years they are full and have to be emptied and washed out . |
| 21 | Yet , while the New Popsters produced a stream of memorable hit singles ( Culture Club 's Do You Really Want To Hurt Me , or Duran 's Hungry Like The Wolf ) , within three years they 'd all be defunct , or frantically searching for a new ‘ adult ’ audience . |
| 22 | Within 4 years they were at the height of their achievements . |
| 23 | In 1850 therefore the deer were officially banished , and in five years they had all been killed off . |
| 24 | Some small captives become pets but within five years they are potentially dangerous and have to be put behind bars . |
| 25 | Within five years they were carrying over seven million passengers a year . |
| 26 | With the loss of Gunbad and Silverspear , the Dwarfs lose their most important mines in the east and within five years they abandon the eastern fringes of the Worlds Edge Mountains altogether . |
| 27 | The governments of the two contracting parties recommend to the legislative bodies of the united Germany that within two years they should deal with the questions regarding amendments or additions to the Basic Law as raised in connection with German unification … |
| 28 | Sometime in the next two to five years they would expect to get together and do what they did with Concorde . |
| 29 | Cos if your washing machine machine lasts for thirty years they 'd go out of business would n't they ? |
| 30 | Every month for four years they met in Melbourne to stuff the magazines into envelopes for Australian subscribers . |