Example sentences of "[prep] the years it " in BNC.
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1 | In this context I would like to pay a tribute to the British officers who served Burma during the years it was part of the Commonwealth . |
2 | Through the years it passed into the possession of many Norman knights , nobility and royalty until in the 18th century , by marriage , it came to the family of the Marquesses of Bute . |
3 | Over the years it has produced a wide-ranging series of reports on abuses of power by the national brewers , many of which have led to action by central government . |
4 | Having collected for Wings Appeal at a number of sites ( railway stations , house-to-house , town centres , London ) over the years it is apparent that the collection rate per hour varies quite significantly from point to point . |
5 | I remember him telling me how over the years it was a role which he had been able to approach from many different standpoints . |
6 | With so much tree growth over the years it is impossible to identify the bare rocks of the engraving . |
7 | Over the years it has become usual to rate small transformers for this sort of application in terms of rectified and smoothed d.c. outputs , but you ca n't always be sure of this and caution is advisable . |
8 | Over the years it has become apparent that certain questions are asked more often than others . |
9 | Indeed , over the years it developed into one of the largest regular gay events in the country . |
10 | One of these types is the de Havilland Canada DHC-4 Caribou and over the years it has attracted a long list of very satisfied customers . |
11 | I do n't know what happened , but over the years it was me who came to the band 's aid when it was needed . |
12 | Over the years it has received King George VI and Queen Elizabeth ( the present Queen Mother ) after the Coronation in 1937 ; Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in 1953 after her own Coronation , and more recently the Prince and Princess of Wales on their first tour in 1981 . |
13 | Over the years it became an ecological Salient . |
14 | As for Welsh Rabbit , over the years it seems to have evolved from primitive toasted cheese into a dish not all that different from the fondues of France and Switzerland . |
15 | And over the years it 's been possible to identify a number of factors produced by these bacteria that seem to make sense in terms of the pathology and the conditions . |
16 | When I started , I was very much on my own but over the years it has really caught on in Whaddon and now membership has trebled . |
17 | I 've never needed it , and over the years it has accumulated . |
18 | Over the years it had become apparent that Constance considered Brian a person of little consequence and that , this being the case , she would not have minded if he had hired the Albert Hall to denounce her as a barbarian and certainly cared nothing for his kitchen sulks and drawing-room sarcasm . |
19 | Its role was partly that of a forum , partly a catalyst , and partly that of an intellectual resource which feeds in ideas and information ; over the years it has developed an outstanding reputation for encouraging and sustaining an informed dialogue between local movements . |
20 | With bank interest over the years it amounted to some £320,000-certainly enough to meet the Ingard cheque . |
21 | Thus , over the years it has been used to index reports , trade literature , periodical articles and other similar documents . |
22 | Over the years it has attracted add-in products , including collections of templates , and this means that it can be sometimes be used as a complete solution to common business problems . |
23 | Over the years it has been customary for the chairman to be re-elected for a second year . |
24 | Over the years it has developed an international reputation in research on student learning strategies , critical analysis of adult basic and overseas education , and in educational philosophy and policy . |
25 | A high turnover of newcomers does not have a serious effect on the community if a substantial group of native families remain rooted in the same spot , but if over the years it is the oldest families that are emigrating then the parish structure will be unstable . |
26 | Over the years it has settled down to the equivalent of ‘ dinner for two ’ , thus about £60 in 1990 in Greenock . |
27 | Over the years it has gone on such a long time . |
28 | Butler and Stokes write , " Partisanship over the individual 's lifetime has some of the quality of a photographic reproduction that deteriorates with time : it is a fairly sharp copy of the parents ' original at the beginning of political awareness , but over the years it becomes somewhat blurred , although remaining easily recognizable . " |
29 | Which is where Harry falls foul of the customs , for on all paperwork connected with the macaw 's movements over the years it is listed as Lears . |
30 | you see you get , over the years it probably expands and it |