Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [adj] years [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they appeared to vanish altogether for several years to return mysteriously to look , to whistle and back chat . |
| 2 | Peter Wood relinquished the Chairmanship of RBIC , and RBIS , to Chris Pearson , Director of Private and Offshore Banking and Director , South of England in October 1992 when the rapid growth of Direct Line made greater demands on Peter 's time ; Norman , who had been due to retire at that time , was asked to stay on for two years to see the restructuring process completed . |
| 3 | The controversy smouldered on for several years fuelled by the entrenched views of some of the judges . |
| 4 | All through these years took part in every one for the last fifty years . |
| 5 | It is true these bright galleons do sail on the high streets of Wembley on Saturday afternoons , and some will continue to do so for many years to come — but not all . |
| 6 | So , prolonged unemployment for the principal breadwinners and their offspring is thrusting more and more families into poverty and threatens to do so for many years to come . |
| 7 | My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has done extremely well and will continue to do so for many years to come . |
| 8 | With their creation , the institutional pattern is settled and seems likely to remain so for some years to come . |
| 9 | Claims for damages against British accountancy firms have proliferated since the 1970s , when the aggressively litigious environment that US accountants had operated in for many years spread to the UK . |
| 10 | This practical involvement led naturally into five years spent as production manager at the Wandsworth factory , just before M & B moved to Dagenham in Essex in 1934 . |
| 11 | The buildings of the years of expansion reflect the wholesale exploitation of a myriad of individual properties ; only in recent years has the preservation of the medieval field pattern by direct overbuilding been removed as ‘ urban renewal ’ has occurred . |
| 12 | In the Labour Code , no legal obligation to provide nursery facilities has been included and only in recent years has a clause been added to the effect that the state will regulate the obligation of employers to maintain nurseries ( Art . |
| 13 | The military regimes in power have never been averse to arresting leaders of the political opposition , but only in recent years has this become a systematic practice . |
| 14 | Only in recent years has it been straightened . |
| 15 | Only in recent years has it been taken over as the civic centre , and the Goose Fair relegated to the outer suburbs ; but for something like a thousand years it was the market place . |
| 16 | Electroencephalography , it is true , had its origins in the nineteenth century but only in recent years has there been an acceleration of interest in lateralised electrophysiological phenomena . |
| 17 | The extent to which the history of science has been shaped by modern concerns is evident from the fact that only in recent years has the origin of ecology begun to attract much attention . |
| 18 | Only in recent years has there been a sustained attempt by Marxist thinkers to re-examine in a thoroughgoing fashion the relation between the state , the economy and social classes , or to analyse that historical experience which reveals the emergence of a new type of authoritarian state from the revolutionary process itself or from the centralized control of a socialist economy . |
| 19 | Not for many years has the complacency of the legal profession about the state of our legal system been so severely jolted as by the series of lectures delivered in the last fortnight by Sir Leslie Scarman , a distinguished Lord Justice of Appeal . |
| 20 | Not for two years had Tomba won in Italy . |
| 21 | He also commented on Pinus rigida , pitch or Virginian pine , reaching great height in its native country , and there were many at Woburn , ‘ twenty feet high , though not of many years standing and keep pace with the other kinds of Pines and Firs in the same plantation ’ . |
| 22 | I mean that if it 's over like two years make quite a difference though . |
| 23 | Tyndall did not in these years hold forth on glaciers at the RI , but on 13 May 1870 Canon Henry Moseley ( father of an eminent zoologist , and grandfather of an eminent physicist ) gave a Discourse on the descent of glaciers . |
| 24 | Imagination has been associated especially with the arts , and thus in recent years has been increasingly downgraded . |
| 25 | It was not until five years had elapsed that track lifting began in earnest , and this was only in fits and starts . |
| 26 | Not until two years had passed was the outcome of these disputes at all clear . |
| 27 | Many of the initiatives laboured over in previous years have come to fruition and a host of new ventures has sprung up , bringing fresh opportunities and challenges . |
| 28 | Dr Tyrrell 's unit on Salisbury Plain , which closed for financial reasons in 1990 , tried unsuccessfully for 44 years to find a cure for the common cold , conducting experiments on more than 18,000 volunteers . |
| 29 | A very considerable number of sub-licences which were normally for a period of six to 12 months were granted during the relevant years of assessment and the aggregate profit therefrom during these years amounted to some HK$57m . |
| 30 | It seems that they chase somebody like John who , at the outside may end up after five years owing them perhaps a hundred to two hundred pounds |