Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [prep] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also became President of the Royal Society , so that for 5 years he led its activities in nurturing British science and ripening its fruits . |
| 2 | It had been my cherished wish , if our circumstances had allowed , to create a ‘ Balancing Fund ’ so that in future years the Institute would not be wholly dependent on forecasting expenditure on the basis of income it had yet to receive . |
| 3 | Mr Faith adds : ‘ I 'm thinking ahead so that in 25 years ' time my daughter will say to her children ‘ Was n't grandad clever ? |
| 4 | The Burns Supper was less so than in previous years but still was an excellent evening arranged by Dr A. Watson . |
| 5 | Some blockhouses were small and short-lived , but others proved to have been placed advantageously and after several years would be reconstructed on a larger scale to form a frontier town . |
| 6 | Hal B. Wallis , who hired me , was a very shrewd man who recognized that the studio system was over and in five years ' time it would no longer be there . ’ |
| 7 | In the 6–7 year age group 91% of boys had retractile prepuces ( a similar figure to that of Gairdner ) , and the incidence of spontaneously retractile foreskins increased yearly until by 17 years only 1% remained non-retractile . |
| 8 | When the main waterproofing coating starts to wear away — very quickly or after many years depending on use and care , you can try to reproof it . |
| 9 | Ebussu'ud Efendi fixed the interval at which this Investiture of students as mulazims , called a might take place , namely once in seven years , though this interval was by no means always maintained in later times . |
| 10 | ‘ I advise our dear people and all Muslim nations to hold the international Qods Day ceremonies this year more warmly and enthusiastically than in previous years , ’ he said in the broadcast monitored in Nicosia . |
| 11 | Isturits was the residential cave , a very large chamber continuously inhabited , the prehistorians say , for many millennia in the Upper Palaeolithic period , up until to 10,000 years ago . |
| 12 | The important debate in my opinion that we shall have this Committee stage and it is for that reason and also because for four-and-a-half years which I think is regarded as a very long time , I was answerable for police affairs er with the Home Secretary in another place , as the Noble Lord , Lord Callaghan will remember , many years ago , it goes back to January nineteen fifty-eight when I became Under Secretary and he was political advisor to the Police Federation and we very rarely disagreed I 'm happy to say . |
| 13 | Now we did n't have a voice , remember we were never even informed before or until two years later after the event that it had happened . |
| 14 | ‘ There is a better atmosphere now than for many years — fewer stoppages , better relationships . |
| 15 | The small party of British players competing in the Veteran 's World Championships in Perth at the end of April achieved greater successes overall than in previous years . |
| 16 | There are also independent traditions in the Cyclades and East Greece ; but the central line of vase-painting is now and for many years to come in Athens . |
| 17 | Does the Secretary of State realise that we were promised 20 years ago that after 20 years the toll would be abolished ? |
| 18 | So even if in ten years , twenty years time , I put a claim , the money I get then , will be the same seventy odd per cent of my salary as it would be today . |
| 19 | Hyundai , founded 23 years ago and with eight years in Britain , offers five models , 23 variations in all , ranging from the £5822 X2 hatchback to the £15,274 Sonata saloon . |
| 20 | The Pompeian house does , of course , only depict the Roman home of up to the first century A.D. and in later years , as can be seen at Ostia , the plan was developed . |
| 21 | The milk cows produced quite respectable yields ( 3,200–3,600kg ) , calving regularly and for many years , and able to live out all year round . |
| 22 | John Monk of Books Etc felt that the hotlines did no work as well as in previous years . |
| 23 | Throughout her life she was a regular worshipper at Llanfwrog Parish Church , even though in recent years she was largely confined to her home . |
| 24 | Branding and voucher regulations were enforced much more consistently than in earlier years . |
| 25 | He was a good friend , then and for many years . |
| 26 | In fact , maintenance was carried out there and in later years the basement was used as a rifle range for the staff and brass bands used to rehearse there for competitions at the Crystal Palace . |
| 27 | Historically and for many years marina charges were too low . |
| 28 | Heyndrickx issued a statement on Feb. 21 saying that " the clinical and toxicological study show clearly that chemical bombs have gassed the population in this region , recently and for many years " . |
| 29 | The president of B'nai B'rith International , Mr Seymour Reich , said the organisation made the expulsion threat reluctantly and after several years of negotiation . |
| 30 | The president of B'nai B'rith International , Mr Seymour Reich , said the organisation made the expulsion threat reluctantly and after several years of negotiation . |