Example sentences of "[prep] [num] years it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is one of the remotest places in the British Isles … for forty years it has been the victim of a real topographical tragedy … a manufacturing town of 50,000 people where a rural centre of 20,000 would have been sufficient . |
| 2 | But for me , all the time , it is a reminder that for 49 years it replaced wedding anniversary celebrations , and the memory of all those bonfires on the way to Bournemouth on a drizzly November afternoon , all those years ago . |
| 3 | The KNU president Gen. Bo Mya , in a letter to Saw Maung dated Nov. 30 , 1989 , said that after 40 years it had been " proven beyond doubt that the civil war , which is basically a political problem , can not be settled by military means " , and that " the most correct and suitable means of achieving [ the KNU 's ] political goals is the settlement of the civil war politically , in a just and rational manner " . |
| 4 | After two years it has strategic alliances with DEC , HP , IBM , NCR , SGI and Sun , 100 customers , 500 development seats , 10,000 run-times out and 10,000 deployed applications . |
| 5 | While this study is limited to one university and deals with a relatively small intake of mature students over a period of six years it does demonstrate that non-standard entry mature students can do particularly well when compared with other students . |
| 6 | The government announced on Nov. 26 that over a period of three years it intended to cut 122,000 government jobs — approximately one fifth of state employees — at an estimated saving to the state of the equivalent of US$1,500 million . |
| 7 | As the mature version of deep slow wave sleep develops in the first year of life , and daytime sleeping is displaced by wakefulness , the number of hours spent in active ( REM ) sleep is eroded until by the age of three years it has dropped from twelve hours to three or four . |
| 8 | But levied over a period of three years it brought in about £80,000 and became the prototype for later subsidies . |
| 9 | Over a period of nine years it has become clear that the breeders referred to in the cup of that name do not include those operating on this side of the pond . |
| 10 | For three years it went on . |
| 11 | She has always relied on instinct , and for 55 years it has served her well . |
| 12 | Juniper Green Tennis Club was formed in 1979 and for 11 years it has provided a valuable service to the local community in Juniper Green and Baberton Mains . |
| 13 | In five years it has built up a fleet of 65 lorries and 85 trailers , all of them leased . |
| 14 | For 15 years it has been illegal in the U8A to produce a new car without a three-way catalytic converter . |
| 15 | Every year for thirty-four years it came back , earning itself the name of súlukongur — ‘ king of the gannets ’ — till finally on 11th May 1894 , it was shot . |
| 16 | For 20 years it has been an offence for anyone to drive a motor vehicle if he has more than 80mg of alcohol in ever 100ml of blood . |