Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] for [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now you ca n't possibly test a medicine on ten thousand people before you start to sell it , so that sort of risk , as rare a risk as that , will only be picked up when the medicine has actually been in use and on the market and been properly prescribed for some years , and what we are doing now , and what is particularly interesting , is to start to use computers to pick up these adverse reactions so that we know much more quickly in future if a medicine is doing any harm and we can either stop prescribing it for the people who are going to suffer from it , and that 's the most likely thing , or else take it off the market altogether if it 's if we do n't if we ca n't pick out the people who might be at risk . |
| 2 | This catalogue raisonné has been keenly awaited for several years ; work began before the artist 's death in 1988 , aged eighty-six . |
| 3 | Two forms of design right are proposed , one subject to registration , the other right being unregistered but only lasting for three years . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm sure most of the papers identified in this study will be highly cited for several years to come , ’ says Garfield . |
| 5 | er York apparently ask for two years ' experience in |
| 6 | All this actually amounts to , however , is the existing EMS ( once so resisted by those converts ) , after capital controls are finally gone , as long planned for next year . |
| 7 | In the first place , the scheme only operates for five years , with no guarantee of continuation . |
| 8 | Nature , produced by Robin Hellier , has a lot of pace as did Horizon 's The Geneva event ( BBC2 , 24 January ) What the latter did not have was much patience with the aspirant but relatively unlearned student of what is going on in the world of high energy physics The main Geneva event — the identification of the W subatomic particle which , with the Z , will enable the theory that the four fundamental forces of nature can be unified within a single framework to be sustained — has yet to be announced , though it is believed imminent Horizon had been patiently filming for four years . |
| 9 | After a spell in private practice , Vial was made equerry to Louis XVI and chef de manège of the Lyons riding academy , a post he apparently held for some years , but could not retain . |
| 10 | The housing market is the worst seen for 25 years , and a 15 per cent base rate and rising mortgage rates can not help . |
| 11 | Aden was at that time an RAF command , in which the operational policy of air control had been successfully applied for some years . |
| 12 | ‘ The English way has not altered for 30 years , ’ he says . |
| 13 | So this is not intended for five years old , it actually refers to new vehicles . |
| 14 | Meetings already arranged for this year include ‘ Changes in the wind — the end of the traditional British holiday ? ’ and ‘ The retail and catering consortium ’ . |
| 15 | On Saturday they travel to Ayr — where the Fifers have not won for 10 years — knowing that victory at Somerset Park would take them up if Dunfermline beat Kilmarnock at East End Park . |
| 16 | They did not know then , were not to know for many years , were never fully to understand what it was that held them together — a sense of being on the margins of English life , perhaps , a sense of being outsiders , looking in from a cold street through a lighted window into a warm lit room that later might prove to be their own ? |
| 17 | As promised , his regime had delivered a degree of governmental stability that France had not enjoyed for many years . |
| 18 | He was conditionally discharged for two years |
| 19 | She admitted destroying property by fire and making hoax telephone calls and was conditionally discharged for one year . |
| 20 | Cunningham was conditionally discharged for one year and ordered to pay a total of £65 compensation . |
| 21 | A first flight is not expected for another year . |
| 22 | The idea of the emergent Pacific was not in anyone 's mind , and in any case the reality of it was not to appear for many years . |
| 23 | Despite living only about 10 minutes from each other , the two have not met for 50 years . |
| 24 | This restoration has been an off-again-on-again project for several years but recently work has resumed on the Bearcat , which will be the only two seat example flying . |
| 25 | ‘ I have not prayed for twenty years , ’ he told Elliott , ‘ and on Sundays I plan how to kill Portuguese . ’ |
| 26 | This rediscovery has come through historical exhibitions held recently at New York 's DIA Center for the Arts ( 1988–89 ) , Claude Berri 's RENN Espace d'Art Contemporain in Paris ( 1991–92 ) and at the Hallen für Neue Kunst , Schaffhausen , where Ryman 's art has been prominently featured for several years and a fresh installation opens shortly ( 2 May-31 October ) . |
| 27 | The unions said the minister promised them in a private April 19 meeting that the operator 's status would not budge for two years . |
| 28 | He let himself think , as he had not done for many years , of Célestine , of their year together in London , and as he had known it would , the memory made him deeply unhappy . |
| 29 | He put his arm around her shoulders , as he had not done for many years . |
| 30 | It is hitting even my constituency in a way it has not done for many years . |