Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] some years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The old house was featured in the paintings of Julius Caesar Ibbetson , born 1759 , who lived at Willy Hill for some years . |
| 2 | Grubb , who has lived in the United States for some years , was brought into the British team that finished second in the Los Angeles Olympics , and will be coming to Britain hoping to make the Barcelona team . |
| 3 | I 'm sure he 's going to carry on showing the same brand of outstanding leadership he has shown with England for some years . ’ |
| 4 | Harthacnut , no older than seventeen , had been in Denmark for some years by 1035 . |
| 5 | Winter sea-watching at Selsey Bill has shown westerly movement to predominate during January and February in some years , suggesting some passage continues from October to February . |
| 6 | DM outlined the system which has operated successfully at Kew for some years . |
| 7 | The Lib Dems have been gaining ground in Cheltenmham for some years . |
| 8 | As a patron of the Sir Ernest MacMillan Clubs of greater Vancouver I enjoyed a happy professional association with Sir Ernest for some years . |
| 9 | I had known Bruce for some years as he often ministered to friends , and on two or three occasions when he had laid his hands on my back , the heat emanating from them was like a blowtorch . |
| 10 | The new regime 's most determined opponents eventually emerged as the Mujahedin-e-Khalq , led by Mas'ud Rajavi who established a base in Paris for some years and was reported in 1986 to have made his way to Baghdad . |
| 11 | Having lived in Australia for some years and witnessed forest fires , leaping from tree to tree and running along the thin covering of bush and grass , I could enter imaginatively into the prophet 's experience . |
| 12 | Winter visitors start to arrive in September , perhaps August in some years , and peak numbers are present in December , after which there is a steady decline through to March and April . |
| 13 | In return , Louis-Napoleon agreed not to return to France for some years . |
| 14 | This was n't an especially spectacular event , although it was the biggest eruption on Etna for some years , and there were no casualties , but none the less it was very instructive . |
| 15 | She has been working out in Sierra Leone for some years and has been taking children off the streets and teaching them the basics of domestic skills and education . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I 've known Conrad Ackroyd for some years . |
| 17 | He was living with her in London for some years — he said they shared a flat . |
| 18 | I stayed with Robert Fraser for some years and it all ended with Robert going to jail on the famous drug bust with the Rolling Stones . |
| 19 | This is n't the first Selecta Fiat , the concept has been used on Unos for some years and Fiat assures me that these automatics are dramatically improved from the older designs still used by other manufacturers . |
| 20 | All of which have been supported by WACC for some years . |