Example sentences of "[noun sg] for [art] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | that there have n't been any forces of change for a thousand years . |
| 2 | ‘ After the Smiths I had been playing the guitar for a few years and I was listening to things like Aztec Camera and Orange Juice . |
| 3 | Three years later , during the carnival of 1645 , John Evelyn saw Ercole in Lidia by Monteverdi 's pupil and successor at St. Mark 's , Giovanni Rovetta ( C. 1596–1668 ) , at the Teatro Novissimo , with ‘ variety of sceanes painted and contrived with no lesse art of perspective , and machines for flying in the aire , and other wonderfull motions … one of the most magnificent and expensive diversions the wit of man can invent ’ ; and the San Cassiano had a chorus for a few years . |
| 4 | Now actually Mill did put the his erm this proposal forward , he was a member of parliament for a few years and he was trying to get this discussed in parliament . |
| 5 | His cottages at Blaize Hamlet blazed a trail for a hundred years . |
| 6 | TESL was run as an alternative methods course for a few years , until TEFL/TESL became a combined methods course in 1986 . |
| 7 | I think my father used to work in a university for a few years after he graduated , and he might have invented something ; he occasionally hints that he gets some sort of royalty from a patent or something , but I suspect the old hippy survives on whatever family wealth the Cauldhames still have secreted away . |
| 8 | After she had finished midwifery and two years as a Benedict 's junior sister she had joined the Royal Navy as a nursing sister for a few years . |
| 9 | No-one was more anti-populist than Charles Leslie , admittedly a rather extreme Tory , but whose Rehearsal was nevertheless a powerful vehicle for the propagation of Tory ideology for the middle years of Anne 's reign . |
| 10 | They would rather continue earning this money for a few years with the hope of becoming financially independent , thus broadening their options and opportunities . |
| 11 | The first cultivators in Africa , as in all parts of the world , would farm a field for a few years and then , when its fertility began to drop , move on to an adjacent , or occasionally distant , area where high yields could be maintained for a similar period . |
| 12 | The monitoring and evaluation completes the course of action for that year ; it also begins to produce fresh information on which to base action for the following years , and so the cycle can begin again . |
| 13 | The Central Committee believes that the implementation of its programme for the five years can help create the conditions for real peace — reconciliation , harmony , well-being , mutual respect , a sense of community and inter-dependence . |
| 14 | six hundred pounds , the pitch fees about seven hundred pounds , bowls club pay us three hundred and fifty pounds , the tennis club for the two years , subscriptions will be twelve hundred pounds , the fair three hundred and fifty pound for two visits , erm one hundred and seventy five each visit , and the rugby club will pay us about three hundred pounds for the use of the pitch on ground . |
| 15 | We shall have to live with it , because er I I do n't think that any hope of any redress next year , but the got to be established of a different system , of me a different methodology for the foreseeable years , if we 're going to get those schemes through that you supported wholeheartedly and congratulated us and for bringing forward the new road schemes for er the that that that that you so approved so warmly yesterday . |
| 16 | I had lived in a motor car for a few years and the rediscovery of my legs was painful . |
| 17 | It has been a major political and cultural force for a hundred years . |
| 18 | It was the persuasion of the Vice Society that led Lord Chancellor Campbell to push through the Obscene Publications Act of 1857 , an Act which was to remain in force for a hundred years , and this was followed by the establishment of the first ( and short-lived ) Obscene Publications police squad in London . |
| 19 | A great deal is going on in those regions , and people in the south who have not been north of Watford Gap for a few years should go and see what is happening there . |
| 20 | ‘ After I had been at the Bedford Institution for a few years there were changes for the better . |
| 21 | For instance , in the Financial Statement and Budget Report for 1980/81 the target range for the four years 1980/81-1983/84 averaged 5.5-9.5 per cent per annum ; according to Economic Trends ( Annual Supplement 1989 ) , the outrun was 13 per cent — about double the centre of the targeted range . |
| 22 | Such a person should , I think , be prepared to act in this capacity for a few years to ensure continuity . |
| 23 | Clinton 's long-time Arkansas-based aide Betsey Wright has seen the alliance work for a dozen years . |
| 24 | In fact to judge the book as a whole in determining if it was obscene had generally been the practice in law for the hundred years since the Hicklin case . |
| 25 | DeRoburt was a key architect of Nauru 's campaign for compensation for the 80 years of phosphate mining which had left 80 per cent of Nauru uninhabitable and incapable of sustaining vegetation . |
| 26 | Built in 1820 it ground corn for a hundred years . |
| 27 | I have calculated that my tuition , rent and equipment for the five years of my degree would cost at least £54,500 . |
| 28 | They used the mill for silk manufacture for a few years but by 1860 ownership had passed to Samuel Long , who was also running Charfield Mills . |
| 29 | The five non-permanent members of the Security Council for the two years from Jan. 1 , 1992 , were elected by the General Assembly on Oct. 16 . |
| 30 | Perhaps if the age-gap of eight years between them had been less … perhaps if she herself had stayed at home for a few years instead of finding separate lodgings as soon as she 'd finished her A levels and joined Grantham and Marsh as a junior copywriter … |