Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [adj] years it " in BNC.

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1 She has always relied on instinct , and for 55 years it has served her well .
2 Juniper Green Tennis Club was formed in 1979 and for 11 years it has provided a valuable service to the local community in Juniper Green and Baberton Mains .
3 The shop 's three glass doors and old-fashioned set of windows were all adorned with window boxes and hanging baskets and for several years it won a Bath Festival award for the best floral shop facade in the City .
4 And of late years it has been used by the inhabitants of Virginia in many disorders , which are occasioned by thick , sizy blood ; so that the root of this plant , when its virtues are fully known , may become one of the most useful medicines yet discovered .
5 Others are moving into the frame and within five years it is possible that more than half of all lamb will be sold overseas .
6 And in recent years it is impossible not to see that Dale Thomas ' name occurs more than others , including being five times the Club Champion — winning on one occasion after a 60-hole match !
7 Birds respond to a wide range of sounds but for many years it was assumed that their low-frequency hearing was poorer than ours .
8 But for several years it remained extremely basic , with only small , medium and large sizes remotely possible so long as the styles were kept simple .
9 Glass-fibre remains an inexpensive and effective reinforcement material , but in recent years it has been upstaged by Kevlar and carbon fibre , two stronger but more costly materials that owe their high profile largely to their use in formula racing cars .
10 The company at one time had a significant tie to the defence industry , but in recent years it has focused on what it knows best — speciality chemicals .
11 But in recent years it has lost its fury .
12 It was traditionally associated with Persia and the southern Caucasus , but in recent years it has been incorporated into the repertoire of weaving groups in other rug-making countries .
13 This is less true of public sector services than of the private sector , but in recent years it is in the latter that growth in employment has been concentrated .
14 Much of the Forestry Commission 's early planting was certainly crude and insensitive , but in recent years it has become more attentive to its landscaping responsibilities ( not least because the Forestry Commission has found that there is money to be made out of tourism if it does so ) and now employs landscape consultants to advise on its planting policies .
15 Often they still are , but in recent years it has become common for other senior academics to act as heads of departments , sometimes in rotation .
16 Like many a similar building it had declined in status but in recent years it has been handsomely restored to its former glory .
17 Of the domestic borrowers , local authorities issued , in the years between the mid-1950s and the early 1980s , a large volume of stocks ( over five years to maturity ) and negotiable bonds ( from one to four years to maturity ) ; but in recent years it has been government policy to centralise most public-sector borrowing and as a result public issues by local authorities have all but ceased .
18 Wherein their Superior Effects for the cure of gun-shot wounds … ‘ , but in those years it was still an uncouth place , better fitted to receive the injured soldiery than sickly , comfort-loving bourgeois .
19 The CBOE began with option contracts on only 16 blue chip shares , but within 10 years it and 3 other exchanges offered about 9500 different option contracts on 350 securities ( out of a total of about 6,000 US listed stocks ) .
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