Example sentences of "[prep] [art] years [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 That human bodies undergo biological changes as the years since birth accumulate can not be denied .
2 Even through the years before myxomatosis rabbits were vulnerable to disease simply because there were so very many of them .
3 Neural linkage , brain to brain and brain to computer , was old science , had been pushed to the limit in the years before mankind had reached out for the stars .
4 In the years since quantum mechanics was first applied to chemistry , many fundamental problems have been ‘ solved ’ — covalent bonds , periodicity , the aromatic nature of benzene , the stereochemistry of carbon , the mechanism of bimolecular reactions , the existence of free radicals , van der Waals ' forces , the magnetic properties of matter , and others .
5 But has anything else that has changed in those twenty-five years — or , for that matter , in the years since abolition — been such that it ought to influence the mind of a Member who is unable to convince himself that capital punishment deters ?
6 Total investment in the NFC in the years since privatization has totalled almost £700 million , whereas in state ownership investment never exceeded £25 million a year .
7 In the years after Action Plan was published , a great deal was achieved .
8 Over the years since union , there have been innumerable instances of Parliament enacting measures which conflict with the terms of union .
9 Inter-bank lending has grown over the years as money markets have become deregulated and as deposits are moved from one currency to another to take advantage of different rates of interest between different countries .
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