Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [det] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The Catch 22 problem was that for several years there had been few big headlines about fusion as no dramatic breakthroughs had been occurring . |
| 8 | He also told me that for some years , two unknown people , evidently strategically placed in big City offices , have been collecting for us all the first-day covers received there . |
| 9 | The same spoon had been used for this for many years and was burnt black . |
| 10 | But they did agree to disagree about the how and why of storytelling and , as Ms Sontag concluded , ‘ We are going to go on talking about this for many years but now , alas , we have to stop ’ . |
| 11 | Tolkien had , probably , been developing some such thought as this for many years . |
| 12 | We 've used this for many years without any adverse effects . |
| 13 | Laurence McGarry , chairman of Scottish Innovation , said : ‘ We have hoped and worked for this for many years and without the support and assistance from a whole range of people , it would not have happened . |
| 14 | ( Perhaps their paintings said things to one another during these years that they could never say in person . ) |
| 15 | Insider-outsider models are a more rigorous articulation of ideas which have been current in one form or another for many years , particularly in British Keynesian circles . |
| 16 | In some of these years , for example 1757 , 1766 , 1795 and 1801 , they were very extensive indeed . |
| 17 | I did not obtain the answer to this until several years later when , meeting Willie on holiday , I tackled him on it . |
| 18 | I have discovered this over many years . ’ |
| 19 | Our system of construction has been used for many years all over this country , by the sponsoring authorities and others , and erm we do n't have the earthquake requirements , but we do need many high value schools both quickly and on time , and we 've completed something like 2,000 projects similar to this over many years . |
| 20 | For each of these years our members have enjoyed the good value offered by Homecover in price and cover . |
| 21 | To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will state the amounts of Exchequer revenue raised from value added tax in each of the years 1978-79 , 1986-87 and 1990-91 ; and indicate what percentage of total Exchequer revenue raised in each of these years these figures constituted . |
| 22 | The Library could budget for phased installation of entry level systems within the next three years by spending a proportion of its budget in each of these years , and working on these systems would give us the expertise to proceed to development phase . |
| 23 | My Lord the only point of interest and it 's really one that I took in the of the submission is that if you use an up to date nineteen ninety three figure for calculating it when it was first back to years three and a half , two and a half and one and a half years ago , then intre it would n't be fair if interest is awarded on that as well because in a sense the increase in the figure that inflation and the increased cost of living has produced because you use an up to date figure , probably equates with the interest and we can the figure an up to date one to avoid just that otherwise it would be getting the figures for each of those years and then working out interest . |
| 24 | In each of those years , estate workers have had to keep it trimmed . |
| 25 | Decline due to ageing is nearly always imperceptible , noted only when comparing present ability with that of many years past . |
| 26 | I noticed his saying in a magazine interview that he could never have survived these past few years without the help of Fleet Street — and that struck me as an unusually candid confession for a politician . |
| 27 | IT HAS become clear these past few years that London 's investment houses are rather worse at managing their own affairs than their clients ' . |
| 28 | ‘ We 'd like our friends to know we were n't entirely inactive these past few years , ’ said Masha with a smile . |
| 29 | That 's a sprinter 's example , but it 's the same for any athletic performance , as I 've just been reminded by watching the astonishing improvement of Ray Davidson in these past few years . |
| 30 | ‘ Naturally these past few years it has n't been worn . |