Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [adj] years [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and we do n't see it and it 's disgraceful that for another five years they 're going to get even less and less |
| 2 | But for another thirty years it remained solely an entertainment for princes and wealthy aristocrats , mostly at Mantua , Florence , Bologna , Parma , and Rome . |
| 3 | Well I do n't know , there are such good Japanese coupes now , you know you see these lovely Toyotas and Nissans that they do the sort of two plus two and they 're really lovely cars and but if I change c car this next year I 'll still have to have four seater or , you know , plenty of room in the boot so I can pick you up from Haileybury and all that crap , but if I hung on for another two years I could then get something I actually wanted , you know . |
| 4 | For some thousand years there was virtually no attempt to give a ruler an individual image . |
| 5 | It was not until after the 1914 war and nearly five years with the French army — although domiciled in England for some thirty years he never at any time entertained the idea of becoming a naturalized British subject , considering it highly improper for a Frenchman to renounce his country — and following the failure of his London decorating business , which before the war had been successful , that Boulestin turned to cookery writing . |
| 6 | For some eight years he opened the innings for Hampshire with the great Barry Richards , a daunting prospect for many a young bowler hoping to establish himself — and many an older one who already had . |
| 7 | For some 11 years they had acted for landowners and in the 1980s reportedly for the Medellín drug cartel , in the prosperous northern Magdalena Medio region of the Magdalena river valley , to combat left-wing guerrillas and attack and kill trade unionists who tried to organize campesinos ( peasants ) and workers in the area . |
| 8 | For some 20–50 years there will be plenty of British natural gas fed into the pipeline for use in homes and industry . |
| 9 | For some 25 years it has been recognised that the overall settlement system is antiquated in comparison with that of other major financial centres and that , if The Exchange is to maintain and enhance its position as one of the World 's major international exchanges , further and more radical reforms are needed . |
| 10 | For some twenty years they had taken opposite sides , reliably and predictably , on all the resounding issues of religion and state . |
| 11 | AFTER some 19 years there has been a change of leadership on the North Norfolk Railway . |
| 12 | So now after all these years we are taking He Pito Whakaatu i Te Noho a Te Maori i Te Awa o Whanganui ( Scenes of Maori Life on The Whanganui River ) , made in 1921 , back to Koroniti . |
| 13 | Even after all these years my English is not so good and I like still honeycake better than your heavy Christmas pudding ! ’ |
| 14 | After all these years she still could n't resist a feeling of pride when she said that to a total stranger . |
| 15 | After all these years it 'll be a real house and home again . |
| 16 | Even after all these years it still carries an authentic medieval flavour . |
| 17 | After all these years it had finally happened ! |
| 18 | And Goldberg , in his pad : Dear Harsnet , it may surprise you to hear that after all these years I am finally at work transcribing the notes you entrusted to me so many years ago , with a view to eventually publishing them . |
| 19 | But after all these years I still remember the Krooms . |
| 20 | After all these years I still enjoyed playing this game . |
| 21 | I thought that after all these years I 'd finally tamed her . |
| 22 | After all these years I 'm definitely |
| 23 | ‘ It 's funny that after all these years I still have n't forgotten what I 've been taught — so it must have been money well spent . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ After all these years you 'd think he 'd be careful . ’ |
| 25 | The lesson of the porcupine quills ( and for an actual example of how not to do it read my Zen There was Murder , if after all these years you can find a copy ) is that any part of your book that you do not directly present to the reader ought to be thought out in imaginative terms , just as thoroughly as you have used your imagination to make whatever you have written fully credible . |
| 26 | After all these years he was still afraid . |
| 27 | To think that after all these years he 's alive and well , and I can — oh , talk to him and touch him . |
| 28 | After all those years it was at last made clear to me why I had this fear . |
| 29 | I mean , after all those years it is difficult to take in . |
| 30 | I have to say , in comment to that , I do n't the know the the balance of statistics but I 've been a lone parent for , for ten years now , although I 've I 've pressed button , it was because for ten years of being able to have a stable relationship with my children , I 've got two very stable teenagers and during that , the course of that ten years I 've been disabled person as well , so yes there may be the case that there 's there 's trouble with the children of lone parent families , but I think there 's far too much emphasis on that nowadays ! |