Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun sg] [prep] [det] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | George Corner recalls an article in the Baltimore Sun of many years ago , according to which the heart and lungs are perfectly respectable , the liver not quite , the spleen dubious and the kidneys definitely vulgar . |
| 2 | Says Joan McIntyre , president of the Project Jonah organisation for many years : ‘ Try for a moment , if you can , to imagine the imagination of a whale , or the awareness of a dolphin . |
| 3 | Laurence Gilliam of the BBC in London arranged and produced these impressive programmes and it was my pleasure and privilege to work with him for the Vancouver region for several years running . |
| 4 | Some of the best are designed and manufactured by John Gorman who has been very interested in the Alexander Technique for many years . |
| 5 | Although fox hunting has not taken place in Hyde Park for many years , an impressive Hunt Ball was held in the Polish Hearth Club in Kensington last week for Shropshire 's United Pack . |
| 6 | Cyril Ibbotson , who has died aged 78 , served Derbyshire golf for many years . |
| 7 | Although predating the RRL initiative by several years — and , indeed the emergence of GIS as a major research area — we should remind ourselves of Openshaw 's work on appraising nuclear reactor sites . |
| 8 | It was the biggest blaze in the Stroud area for some years . |
| 9 | A feature of the Blackpool season for many years was the Daily Mirror Week in Blackpool , when a specially decorated tramcar operated for a week on the Promenade , with all the fares collected going to charity . |
| 10 | An Inn has stood on the Bridge Street crossroads for many years . |
| 11 | Christine Brooke-Rose , for instance , is a bilingual English critic and novelist , who taught in a Paris university for many years . |
| 12 | One of the most expressive highlights of the vibrant and thriving cultural life of Belfast is the annual Belfast Festival which has enjoyed Guinness support for many years . |
| 13 | Although full-blown HDTV will for many years be expensive overkill for the home , wide-screen TV is available now . |
| 14 | The ‘ bag mills ’ were an important employer in the Stonehouse area for many years . |
| 15 | has played for the Sudbury team for many years and was vice-captain when they took the Anglo Two Counties League Championship . |
| 16 | The vision of a monastic cathedral of Canterbury with primatial authority over the whole of the British Isles , which had inspired Lanfranc , Anselm , and the community of Christ Church during these years , came to nothing . |
| 17 | There 's a common interest of course of avoiding war for most people anyway , but there 's also a common interest we know related to environmental issues and that can not be dealt with by each country , each country may have unique environmental problems but environmental problems straddle erm boundaries of countries as we saw from the Chernobyl problem of some years ago . |
| 18 | After university , they lived together platonically in Kennington and later Maida Vale for several years , ‘ before I first made advances , which resulted in six months ’ non-speaking from her ’ , Gould says cryptically . |
| 19 | China had been the largest single purchaser of US wheat for several years , buying up to 10 per cent of total US wheat production in some years . |
| 20 | Rather more unusual is the single pair of Herons that have nested in the centre of Westham village for many years . |
| 21 | He was also president of a local Gilbert and Sullivan society for many years . |
| 22 | He was established as a lecturer in natural philosophy at Edinburgh University for many years , but it was not until the age of fifty-eight that his first publication is recorded , when his work on the structure of crystals culminated in his report ‘ on a method of so far increasing the divergence of the two rays in a calcareous spar that only one image may be seen at a time ’ ( Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal , vol. vi , 1829 ) . |
| 23 | Lady Onslow was haunted by the Littlejohn affair for some years . |
| 24 | The Bidston Dock cranes have been a Birkenhead landmark for many years . |
| 25 | In the District these were organised and developed by George Pateman at Cheshunt College for several years , and became a distinctive feature of summer programmes . |
| 26 | Borders Regional Council also believes the new fishing dimension in the funding rules , given the fishing industry at Eyemouth , will strengthen the case for access to rural development to finance which they have been working on with Scottish Borders Enterprise for several years . |
| 27 | It is interesting to note how Trade Indemnity , which has been an active user of this Z-Score approach for many years , used the technique as part of its overall risk assessment procedures to provide advance warning , allowing it to reduce exposure to MCC to a nominal sum by the time it failed . |
| 28 | In the same year , however , it was again sold , this time to the Earl of Burlington and it remained in the Burlington family for many years . |
| 29 | Port Mill continued to be worked by members of the Evans family for some years , eventually being amalgamated with Marling and Evans . |