Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Except on North America voyages , and despite falling unemployment and rising real wages in the country as a whole , seamen 's wages rose little for some years . |
| 2 | He did this by making three of the sentences , each for 14 years , run consecutively instead of concurrently . |
| 3 | As I mentioned on the phone yesterday : update on music permissions that have developed since last week : Waterfront ( Simple Minds ) ( confirmation awaited from artists ) and I Like Driving in my Car ( Madness ) will be £75 each for 3 years ' world license , excluding USA . |
| 4 | But so physically restricted was the Calais area , and so often was it under French pressure , that for long years at a time all the needs of the garrison , whether in provisions or materials , had to be shipped in from England . |
| 5 | Previously to T N T Dave was in the steel industry , and he worked in that for thirty years er , doing , and one or two other things , one of which was G K N , that 's it . |
| 6 | And then you see the the council I did that for nineteen years . |
| 7 | You also told me that for eleven years you were national coach and team manager to the United Arab Emirates . |
| 8 | The national health service is greatly improved , in that for many years — including those years when the Labour party was running , or reported to be running the country — the financial balance of the service was poor . |
| 9 | I suppose one of the things I use to demonstrate it most clearly is that for many years I s I gave lectures on communications and one of the things I used to say in those lectures was I did not know , and I was stressing that sense what came first if newspapers write stories in a particular way , because that is what the public wanted or do public want a particular type of story and that 's that newspapers round-up and I stopped posing that question when Rupert Murdoch bought the Melbourne Sun because Rupert Murdoch bought the Melbourne Sun and introduced a lot of sex-type stories you know stories about brothels and madames whipping people and goodness knows what else and the sales rocketed and there we had almost a captive example of change in the design of change in the type of stories that were written and people , people were buying it and so you have an issue of you know that your content was actually being by what your readership wanted . |
| 10 | That the club marked its centenary in 1990 is unconnected with arthritic administration , rather that for many years Shildon believed it was two years later . |
| 11 | But the relationship was extremely good , I think that you might say that for many years in my service , it was almost a case of the law abiding citizens in Ipswich coping with the wrongdoers . |
| 12 | The history of this is that for many years M O D were unhappy about expansion of the , of the port er , for commercial use and the reason they were unhappy of course was that erm commercial use was competition that they felt would be likely to drive up wages . |
| 13 | he gets sixty-three years , you know , I mean what 's the use of keeping a bugger like that for sixty-three years , it 's bloody ridiculous , in n it ? |
| 14 | The truth was that for four years Fittipaldi had come close to dominating motor racing in the way Jackie had before him : after two indifferent early years learning his trade , he had been champion twice ( in 1972 and 1974 ) and come second in 1973 and 1975 . |
| 15 | The lesson of the casualties and the lack of any real gains even to the victors was made harsher by this realization , that for four years Europe had fought a war which no one had wanted . |
| 16 | The problem of the assault course of whether she 's actually fitted in in three months , anyhow that 's what we ought to write that in , but er , she travels , she travels most weekends playing hockey for Yorkshire , and has done that for four years , and she 's all over , where were you ? , |
| 17 | Indeed , the implication of his resignation letter was that for five years there had been conflict at the very heart of the government that had precipitated the earlier resignations of Heseltine , Lawson and , in July 1990 , Nicholas Ridley , the Trade and industry Secretary ( the last after he had expressed intemperate views about Britain 's European partners that many observers believed the Prime Minister herself shared ) . |
| 18 | He has also worked with Goodman Direct Marketing in London and prior to that for five years with Templetons ( British Carpets Ltd. , as it was then called ) . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've had that for fifteen years . |
| 20 | ‘ Man , I 've been worrying about that for fifteen years ! ’ exclaims Bryan . |
| 21 | I have n't done that for two years . |
| 22 | I travelled all so all this , Jim that 's alive now I done that for two years . |
| 23 | per annum , which in 1751 became £3:6:8 Sterling , and stayed at that for 67 years . |
| 24 | I 've argued that for twenty years , now suddenly overnight it 's become unfashionable and let's make it clear why it 's become unfashionable . |
| 25 | B T say the same , that for twenty years the firm was in deficit and both managements put in much more than the Trust Deed says to keep us to keep the fund afloat . |
| 26 | By 1951 the Art Galleries had been doing just that for 50 years . |
| 27 | But they have been saying that for 20 years . |
| 28 | Does my right hon. Friend agree , however , that for 20 years he and his predecessors have pursued the will-of-the-wisp of power-sharing , devolved government ; and that , for as long as it is pursued , the IRA will believe , rightly or wrongly , that it will get us out in the end ? |
| 29 | The Catch 22 problem was that for several years there had been few big headlines about fusion as no dramatic breakthroughs had been occurring . |
| 30 | Dear Boy , It must be very difficult for you sometimes I expect not having anyone and having to do all the shopping and cooking for yourself I know that when I was working I certainly could not have managed on my own , coming home tired and then making dinner your own dinner and then going upstairs to do some more work , what sort of life is that , though I know all about that because of course I did do that for three years almost , and I know how much happier I was when I knew there was someone waiting for me and having the dinner ready and keeping the house clean and all those things , or perhaps you people do n't think those things are important . |