Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] years [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had dropped me a note the day he left advising me to sell , so sell I did , but despite many hours spent traipsing round the East End I could only find one interested party : Mr Cohen , who had for some years conducted his tailor 's business from above my father 's shop and wanted to expand . |
| 2 | Like many other RAF servicemen he found himself stationed in Lincolnshire and after five years service his Lincolnshire bonds were established and he later moved to the areas into the more peaceful activity of a fitter in the malting industry . |
| 3 | There was more than just a matter of fifty years separating her life from that of Johnny Latimer . |
| 4 | The Medical Correspondent of the UK Sunday Times reported in May 1990 that the anti-oestrogen drug , tamoxifen , used for several years to treat women actually suffering from breast-cancer , is now to be tested on 30,000 human subjects over a period of five years to assess its potential as a preventative of the disease in healthy women . |
| 5 | I shall consider the success of attempts of recent years to mitigate its masculine nature . |
| 6 | I worked in the coal mines for three years to obtain my colliery manager 's certificate . |
| 7 | Lybke has for many years presented his artists in an international context . |
| 8 | With three years to make your mark , your wife 's belly should have been permanently swollen . ’ |
| 9 | But just playing county cricket for two-and-a-half years revived my appetite and confidence . |
| 10 | Social status , so quickly achieved , made the family unwilling in later years to acknowledge their very humble origins . |
| 11 | Bates back at Roland Garros for the first time in three years opens his challenge against Ctislav Dosedel of the Czech Republic , a player ranked nine places lower on the world computer at 111 . |
| 12 | " They said they 'd see me in three years to do my D.Phil. at Oxford . |
| 13 | Before she died in June , 1913 , so the story goes , she swore to rise again in 80 years to take her revenge . |
| 14 | The measure allows such companies in those years to apply their mineral depletion allowances to 50% of the value of the finished products rather than to the lower value of raw clay alone . |
| 15 | Over and above such day-to-day management , the Church of England has made substantial efforts in recent years to rationalise its portfolio of buildings . |
| 16 | Morrison 's strong showing in recent years reflects its performance as a recession-proof business . |
| 17 | Philip Leapor told Freemantle that he worked for the Blencowe family for five years following his daughter 's birth . |
| 18 | Brahms took about fifteen years to complete his First Symphony , and when it was first performed in 1876 , he was 43 — an extraordinary late symphonic debut for a composer who had been publicly proclaimed as a genius by Schumann when he was 18 , and who had gone on to justify public expectations with such works as the ‘ German Requiem ’ , which had given him financial security for life . |
| 19 | Its increasingly widespread use and track record over many years emphasise its benefits compared with more traditional procedures . |
| 20 | Inventories have been refined over many years to meet your needs on flotilla , and include little touches like sets of snorkels and flippers — and a pack of foodstuffs and cleaning materials to start you off . |
| 21 | I published the results in a book called Manwatching and for twenty years continued my investigations into that bizarre species Homo sapiens . |
| 22 | Janet Aughton has been battling for two years to get her two sons , Steven who 's 7 , and six year old Jason … moved from the council school they attend in Gloucester.She says the two children are gradually going blind because of a hereditary defect that 's already made her lose her sight . |