Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] years there " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some years there had been a gathering discontent around the boisterous arrival of working-class people at holiday resorts , where the Bank Holidays were regularly associated with heavy drinking , shrieking girls and the occasional free fight . |
| 2 | For some years there has been a tendency " in professional examinations to use fixed multiple.choice questions . |
| 3 | After fifty years there were 143 of them , responsible for the upkeep of 3,400 miles of roadway from the tolls parliament allowed them to levy . |
| 4 | After five years there would be no controls at all . |
| 5 | One set of 10 pellets was left on a dry ledge against a south facing wall , and after two years there had been some erosion of the surfaces of the pellets but the pellets were still largely intact . |
| 6 | After a delay of some years there is now some momentum behind the production of a guidebook for the Clwyd Limestone area . |
| 7 | Thus the National Child Development Study which covered all children born during a week in 1958 found that at the age of 7 years there was a far higher proportion of children from the lower socio-economic groups who had not been immunised against smallpox , polio and diphtheria . |
| 8 | However , over the age of 80 years there is little difference between the sexes . |
| 9 | They have come from every country on earth … of late years there has been a remarkable influx of Jews into Palestine , but the Turkish government are striving to hinder their settlement by every means in their power . ’ |
| 10 | During these years there had been routine protests in places like the United Nations , which France ignored , and around the island of Moruroa itself involving the Greenpeace organisation . |
| 11 | And although the City Council has managed over the years to old council house rents down , I think for three years there was absolutely no rent increase and then only about a nine per cent increase , although we 've managed to hold council house rents down until |
| 12 | Throughout those years there was a constant building and re-building programme at Howard . |
| 13 | For many years there have been proponents of the theory that one of the ‘ lobe-finned ’ fishes included the ancestor of the tetrapods , and it is not difficult to imagine their stumpy fins , with a fleshy core , making the uneasy transition into a walking leg . |
| 14 | For many years there was a tradition that the noted scholar , Roger Bacon , had been educated in St Mary 's Chapel , Chalford ( this later becoming the mill ) , although by Rudder 's time , this had been effectively disproved . |
| 15 | For many years there was much debate about how pillow lavas formed . |
| 16 | The two tram routes departed from opposite sides of the central loading island in the Square , where for many years there was an ornamental drinking fountain and later a stone shelter and underground toilets . |
| 17 | For many years there has been much debate in the UK about who should care for diabetic patients — general practitioners or hospital-based doctors . |
| 18 | For many years there has been an ongoing debate concerning the human author of the first five books of the bible . |
| 19 | For many years there were rumours of Egyptian vultures breaking open ostrich eggs by throwing stones at them at close range . |
| 20 | For many years there were political overtones in this opposition , with Citrine seeing Randall as the representative of a capitalist rump in the industry which must be controlled . |
| 21 | For many years there was no whole-school curriculum policy at Sutton . |
| 22 | One further point : the actuarial profession is firmly egalitarian and for many years there have been equal opportunities for women . |
| 23 | For many years there has been a considerable amount of interest in the extent to which industrial relations play a significant role in explaining variations in economic performance . |
| 24 | For many years there have been worries over the increasing monopolisation of British industry , as evidenced by increased levels of both aggregate and market concentration , and for which there is little doubt that merger activity has , at times , been a major causal factor ( see e.g. HMSO 1978 , Hughes 1989 ) . |
| 25 | Hosts : Horses and donkeys Site : Caecum and colon Species : For many years there has been a great deal of confusion in the classification of this group of parasites and in a recent revision it has been proposed that the genus Trichonema be discarded and replaced by four genera , namely Cyathostomum , Cylicocyclus , Cylicodontophorus and Cylicostephanus , these being collectively referred to as cyathostomes . |
| 26 | for many years there 's been what 's called the ‘ Rate Equalization Subsidy ’ which has gone from areas of high rateable value to areas of low rateable value such as the middle of Lancashire — central Lancashire , and other parts of the country . |
| 27 | Within fifty years there were several silk factories employing four hundred to eight hundred persons , but the silk industry was of secondary importance and did not initiate the factory system . |
| 28 | There may be little rain for ten months of the year — and in some years there may be no rain at all . |
| 29 | And there 's also something else that I forgot to bring up and that is that they 're trying to find new ways of removing the gases , and they reckoned that in 2 years there 's going to be an electrical method , an electrical filter , and the lab is 99% efficient . |
| 30 | Alas , within 10 years there were too many locomotive builders for the small number of orders being produced in those depressed time . |