Example sentences of "[art] [adj] years a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the ensuing years a battle was waged between those who saw the discretion present in supplementary benefit decision making as a necessary part of a flexible response to human need ( Titmuss , 1971 ) and the burgeoning welfare rights movement , which demanded genuine legal rights to income maintenance with equality of access to decision-making guides and judicial appellate procedures . |
| 2 | Smith himself was for a few years a tutor at Christ Church , but in 1795 he resigned his studentship to become incumbent of Daventry ( a Christ Church living ) , returning to Christ Church as a canon in 1807 . |
| 3 | Only a few years a go the coal board was proud of the work of the pit deputy . |
| 4 | After a few years a department may be left with serious gaps in its library and a load of superannuated computing equipment . |
| 5 | ALTP/CL Class I standards will remain almost the same , apart from a haemoglobin blood test every medical , and every five years a serum lipids ( fats ) cholesterol test . |
| 6 | But roughly every five years a tide of warm water ( up to 30°C ) flows down the coast from the equator ; the nutrients in this water have already been removed by equatorial plankton . |
| 7 | In July 1944 Attlee presented a paper on ‘ Foreign Policy and the Flying Bomb ’ , which pointed out that it would henceforth be impossible for Britain to rely upon the English Channel as a defence against her enemies : From our point of view , Norway , Denmark , Holland and France are necessary outposts of Britain and , in as much as Britain is now as she has been for a hundred years a shield for the U.S. , outposts of America as well . |