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 | All through these years took part in every one for the last fifty years . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has done extremely well and will continue to do so for many years to come . |
| 6 | With their creation , the institutional pattern is settled and seems likely to remain so for some years to come . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Only in recent years has it been straightened . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Imagination has been associated especially with the arts , and thus in recent years has been increasingly downgraded . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Bank loans due wholly or partly after five years attract interest at rates between 7 per cent and 11 ¼ per cent . |
| 20 | The distinctive sound and the working success of the whistles will ensure that the results of Nigel Day 's hobby are in continued demand from railways and owners near and far for many years to come . |
| 21 | It is not clear when his experiments began , but an affidavit made out by Sadler and his assistant Guy Green states that on 27 July 1756 they printed 1,200 earthenware tiles of different patterns in six hours , and that the process had taken upwards of seven years to perfect . |
| 22 | Our UNICEF field workers and medical teams have worked so tirelessly in recent years to bring immunisation to the children of the world . |
| 23 | The most telling passage , indeed , were those recapitulating the Ripper trial — which uniquely in recent years illustrated the harshness of that interface , for all our liberal decencies . |
| 24 | In 1958 he believed that he was founding a republic that would serve France well for many years to come , but he also believed that in the immediate future his presence was essential to France 's safety and renewal . |
| 25 | ‘ If it were obvious , we would n't have been here for five years trying to find it , and Paula would still be … . |
| 26 | I 'd tried hard for many years to get him to stop , in the face of informed professional opinion , but he had always shrugged it off . |
| 27 | This will be £5,000 per annum initially for three years reducing to £3,000 and £1,000 in the fourth and fifth years respectively . |
| 28 | The story was an apparently true one concerning a certain butler who had travelled with his employer to India and served there for many years maintaining amongst the native staff the same high standards he had commanded in England . |
| 29 | The profiles will be measured again after five years to assess the effect of the changes in agricultural practices on nitrate leaching and groundwater quality . |
| 30 | The mixture of agrarianist views put forward in subsequent years have tended to be lumped together under the heading of nó0honshugi , the concept of agriculture as the socio-economic base of society . |