Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] years the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But to pursue this matter would have delayed for some years the opening of much needed services . |
| 2 | For some years the family had lived on the island of Rousay , where both the Social Work and Education Departments were actively involved with them , having been alerted by the school to concerns over the welfare of the children . |
| 3 | For some years the town 's symbol has been The Tower on the Moor . |
| 4 | Few of the elderly male messengers now remained , and for some years the Department had recruited women . |
| 5 | After the car had been there for some years the defendant wished to convert the yard into a garage but was unable to communicate with the plaintiff . |
| 6 | For some years the convict prisons , already the responsibility of central government , remained technically separate entities , but both were brought under the dominant authority of one man , Sir Edmund Du Cane . |
| 7 | The funds made available through the Farm and Horticultural Development Scheme will be a sound national investment but does it make sense to embark on a programme with a possibility that perhaps after six years the land might be allocated to forestry ? |
| 8 | Grasses gradually increase and after 10 years the appearance is mainly one of grassland with scattered clumps of tall herbs . |
| 9 | After 50 years the waste will probably be buried deep underground . |
| 10 | They therefore tend to assume that after two years the firm ( if it is not a supernormal growth firm ) simply grows in line with GDP , on the grounds that , in the long run , the share of dividends or earnings in GDP does not trend in any significant way . |
| 11 | After thirty years the memory which abides with me of the Suez episode that began with Egypt 's nationalisation of the Canal on 26 July 1956 is of complete bewilderment and the sense of watching an unintelligible drama It was not surprise that Egypt had appropriated the Canal . |
| 12 | Does the Secretary of State realise that we were promised 20 years ago that after 20 years the toll would be abolished ? |
| 13 | After seven years the insect was blown into the Great Hall of Inver Cechmaine and was accidentally swallowed by the wife of that nobleman ; she was reborn nine months later , again given the name Etain and growing to be an exquisitely beautiful woman . |
| 14 | Although we have been going there for 10 years the excitement of seeing all our friends will never ever die and I hope it is going to stay a good , clean Holiday site for many years . |
| 15 | For 10 years the centre has been trying to breed African Fish Eagles . |
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| 18 | Enormous growth in this business occurred through the substitution phase and for a period of some years the business was extremely profitable . |
| 19 | Second , it seemed that at the end of three years the debtor 's debts would be written off , although the Act 's drafting was not clear on this point . |
| 20 | In the course of many years the accumulation of mal had made the soil in the paddy fields so dark and rich that it was used as a black dye , together with the red and green dyes from wild plants and flowers , for printing skirts . |
| 21 | At the end of five years the employer providing a creche will have paid £2,154,830 while employers providing equivalent cash or childcare cheques will have paid half that at £1,076,885 and £1,077,000 respectively . |
| 22 | For each of the four succeeding periods of five years the covenant brings into operation the rent review provisions of the lease . |
| 23 | After an interval of 54 years the World Federation of Hungarians held its third congress in Budapest on Aug. 19-21 . |
| 24 | During these years the fire engine and appliances were kept in the recreation ground behind the present Fire Station , and training was carried out on Wednesday evenings on this ground . |
| 25 | During these years the diagnosis had been corrected in 13 patients . |
| 26 | ‘ For three years the Government has been cutting help to the unemployed , depriving them of the training they need and reducing their ability to find their way back to work . |
| 27 | For three years the war was just a large scale Radio thriller . |
| 28 | Unlike previous years the majority of sales were at the cheapest end of the price range , between £100 and £500 with works at the top price of £1,750 harder to shift . |
| 29 | Another consumer rights champion behind Safe-Buy is Lord Michael Winstanley who was for 18 years the presenter of Granada TV 's long-running ‘ This is Your Right ’ programme . |
| 30 | A tower of strength , he was for many years the Master in charge of the business side of the Library , supervising its odyssey around the School ; he had helped with lacrosse , with the School 's annual invasions of German-speaking Europe , with the financial side of the School Play . |