Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] years [conj] there " in BNC.
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| 1 | And reaching 30 in a recession is a special problem in itself — I may have to tread water in my career for some years because there is no chink of promotion in my business . |
| 2 | Mr Gros said : ‘ No one has died in an avalanche here for 10 years and there has never been one at that spot before . |
| 3 | Nobody has counted science teachers for many years but there are thought to be about 30 000 , so 6000 more could be needed . |
| 4 | But , even when people have had spells of very bad illness , they may still live for many years and there will be time for them to make good plans for their children . |
| 5 | But I 've been in the wood for many years and there is a lot more to read than what I keep in the shaman 's lodge . |
| 6 | CAR crime on Merseyside has dropped for the first time in three years but there is still one offence every 20 minutes . |
| 7 | Complaints to the BR watchdog have now doubled in five years and there 's little hope of things improving . |
| 8 | There have been suggestions in recent years that there 's a sub-group of patients with bladder cancer in whom there is a reduced likelihood of recurrence , and it may be possible in those patients to amend the follow-up protocol and omit the six and nine month check cystoscopies . |
| 9 | Generally , however , discipline has not been a problem between them in recent years and there have been some pulsating contests . |
| 10 | THE Law and its administration have seen changes in recent years and there are more to come . |
| 11 | There has been a lot of this kind of partnership in recent years and there is no doubt that there is some mutual benefit but the benefits are unrelated for each party — the college gets a resource that it can use , the donor a warm sense of public spirit , a tax deduction or some publicity . |
| 12 | We have published reviews of a fair number of headphones in recent years and there is ample evidence that this uniquely personal and involving method of listening to music remains very popular . |
| 13 | The very idea of the ‘ comprador bourgeoisie , ’ central to the dependency approach , appears to have fallen into disuse in recent years and there have been various attempts to reconceptualize what it refers to . |
| 14 | Perhaps those advising Mr Lamont consider the objective has been achieved by the high drilling success rates in recent years and there are enough oil and gas finds to sustain development work for the immediate future . |
| 15 | The entire stock of the nation 's glasses turns over in two years so there is no reason why this measure should result in any implementation costs or why the price of a pint should go up . |
| 16 | He 's been in St Mary 's Hospital , Paddington , for five years because there is simply nowhere else for him to go . |
| 17 | A spokesman pointed out the jet had been in use for five years and there had been no complaints until recently . |
| 18 | And then , you can always take out the extra insurance with er , no but it is n't very much for a tumble-drier , for five years and there 's no problems that way . |
| 19 | There had not been a meeting of the accident investigation division for fifteen years and there had been a great deal of development in the civil aviation scene in the intervening period , so a meeting was called in Montreal in January and February of that year . |
| 20 | I made it clear on a number of occasions over recent years that there was , in retrospect , one change that I wish we had not made at the time , but it was one that was urged on us by right hon. Gentlemen opposite . |
| 21 | The story had been taken up in yesterday 's paper by another lady , old-age pensioner Miss Judith Kennedy , a retired teacher who told a local reporter that ‘ I know an eagle when I see one because I lived in Cyprus for twenty years and there are many eagles there . |
| 22 | We need to find people to buy these places so that we can sort of balance the books , but one wonders , you know , could n't something have been done with that empty building for two years while there are folk in the area with nowhere to live . |
| 23 | One further case died from cancer of the bronchus aged 69 years and there were seven other unrelated deaths over the age of 50 years . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's amazing that Barry Norman , a cosy sort of guy , has ruled the roost on British television for 20 years and there has never been a real attempt to displace him before , ’ says cinema historian and Anthony Hopkins biographer Quentin Falk . |