Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [adv] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the sample group ( 82 per cent ) had been using for over two years before they first sought treatment . |
| 2 | I was using for about three years altogether . |
| 3 | An event that has been occurring for only five years before the enactment of the 1986 Act is of a more dubious standing . |
| 4 | Piers Ottey , Catherine Somerville and Christopher Baker are all graduates and have each been painting for over 20 years . |
| 5 | It 's a kind of health farm and you go there to sample a simple lifestyle which Mongolians have been enduring for about 3,000 years and you are going to put up with for twenty-four hours . |
| 6 | After living for about eighty years , they become ill and miserable . |
| 7 | Glover has been training for only five years , and many a famous name has yet to come within spitting distance of the race , so the achievement was remarkable . |
| 8 | For example , in one CSE mode three which has been operating for about ten years , the course objectives are divided into content and process . |
| 9 | Moreover , strikes were illegal , wages were controlled by the state and people were anxious to improve their standard of living after so many years of rationing and privation . |
| 10 | The task will fall to the manager to persuade advice workers to attend race-awareness training in addition to popular updating in welfare benefits ; managers may have the task of explaining to management committee members why they now need training after so many years without it ; it will be the manager 's job to be attuned to advice workers ' weaknesses and tactfully point them to the relevant additional training ; the manager must find a balance in workers ' meetings between training , casework and group support . |
| 11 | But Benichou , looking at least 10 years older than his age of 27 , concentrated on body attacks . |
| 12 | Although Lapwings still breed in all open habitats in the county , including heathland , numbers have apparently been declining for over 80 years . |
| 13 | Although Jacquard looms have been going for over 100 years , improvements are still being carried out . |
| 14 | Although the actual game has been going for over 65 years there was a slight change made in 1943 when the event became a charity match to raise funds for the specific purpose of the prevention of blindness . |
| 15 | The declining importance of religion in social life in general , and in particular the declining influence of Christianity on the great moral questions of the day was ( and is ) the spur to action that has kept the NVALA going for over twenty years . |
| 16 | in time and it 's been going for about five years . |
| 17 | March , which is based at Bicester , had been competing in Grand Prix racing for over twenty years . |
| 18 | Most readers of Innovation will associate ICI with acrylics through the plastics ‘ Perspex ’ and ‘ Diakon , ’ which ICI has been making , publicizing and selling for over 50 years — ever since one ICI chemist produced and patented polymethyl methacrylate and another devised a practical and economic process for the manufacture of the monomer on a commercial scale . |
| 19 | We have been waiting for nearly fifty years . ’ |
| 20 | I will be very brief but just to welcome the fact that in we have been waiting for nearly fifty years |
| 21 | ( Since then I have been in touch with Texas four times and been promised an answer for which I am still waiting after nearly two years ) . |
| 22 | Douglas Gray of Middleton in Teesdale said he had been complaining for over two years about undelivered letters and hit out at the ‘ uncaring attitude ’ of the Post Office in Darlington . |
| 23 | With the exception of Douglas Hurd 's Indian summer lasting for about two years after the 1987 election , the prevailing mood in the Home Office was one of institutional pessimism . |
| 24 | I 'd probably been teaching for about four years before I began to have that confidence . |
| 25 | Now , the signs of that beauty are still discernible but tend to be offset by the layers of crumbling stucco , stone or woodwork resulting from too many years of neglect . |
| 26 | As the Temple was desecrated , according to the most probable chronology , about December 1 67 and reconsecrated about December 164 , we must take it that the correct interpretation of Daniel is the latter , amounting to about three years , which is in rough agreement with the " time , times and half a time " of the previous chapter . |
| 27 | a University Certificate of Diploma lasting at least 3 years . |
| 28 | The loss of bone mass is recognised as a universal characteristic of ageing — beginning at around 30 years in women and 50 in men — although there are wide differences in the amount and rate of loss . |
| 29 | We will be menstruating for about 30 years of our lives . |
| 30 | Build for King Edward I , work commencing in 1283 and continuing for approximately four years . |