Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [adv] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have been indoctrinated for nearly forty years with the belief that their right to this pension does not arise simply out of a public decision to pay it but is a right vested in the individual by virtue of certain payments made by him , and analogous to what would be his entitlement under a contract with an insurance company . |
| 2 | Early in the New Year the organisation was moving from the Dickensian building in the city centre which it had inhabited for over fifty years to a new purpose-built high-rise office block south of the river , an area not long cleared of old slum dwellings and deratinised . |
| 3 | The most certain of these is that employment in the primary sector has fallen for over 100 years , and continues to fall by around 2 to 3 per cent a year . |
| 4 | Going back to the scene of the Crucifixion , do you think that you could add something to a scene which has been treated for almost 2000 years ? |
| 5 | Delayed for over four years , Nagisa Oshima 's Max Mon Amour features Charlotte Rampling indulging in extramarital horseplay , or rather between-the-sheets monkey business with her lover Max , a chimp . |
| 6 | Robert Julius Matson had guessed right : the first train had come through just nine years after the town was founded in 1858 , pulling behind it the fertiliser works , the com mill , the seed-com warehouse , and with them the quiet prosperity that spawned the first Masonic lodge in 1871 , a voluntary fire brigade in ‘ 75 , the telephone in ‘ 84 and the first sewer in 1920 . |
| 7 | And when the château the Princesse had now occupied for over twenty years emerged from amidst snow-clad trees halfway up an escarpment , she felt dizzy with the beauty of it all . |
| 8 | It may be , too , that the small independents , squeezed for so many years , are starting to fight back . |
| 9 | A cumulative succession of nasty surprises has dealt a further destructive blow to an advantage Mr Lawson has enjoyed for so many years that he may have come to taken it for granted : the effect on expectations of confident and respected official forecasting . |
| 10 | Almost the biggest shock of the many I had sustained on my return home was the loss of the social cachet I had enjoyed for so many years . |
| 11 | It would have been frozen for over thirty years . |
| 12 | Thus the time-honoured name of Revenue Cutter was dropped after so many years of tradition . |
| 13 | Certainly it stands comparison with the better-known Haua Fteah cave in North Africa , which hunters and gatherers occupied from about 75000 years ago and where shellfish also played an important part in the people 's economy . |
| 14 | There was a lot more tetanus , but no more than was carried in here fifty years ago in the First War . |
| 15 | The uncanny , oppressive atmosphere still hangs over that spot as it has done for over twenty years . |
| 16 | I write as one who has cycled for over 40 years and who rides between 8,000 and 9,000 miles per year ( I am an occasional motorist too ) . |
| 17 | She was well aware that it would seem thoroughly feeble — if not downright pathetic — to refuse to accompany him to New York simply because they had been separated for almost five years . |
| 18 | This was one U Nu , but not the deeper man , who had searched for so many years for enlightenment . |
| 19 | An association between hypertension and diabetes has been suspected for over 70 years . |
| 20 | Now something 's been said for certainly fifteen years er that I can remember . |
| 21 | One thing is clear : Islam flourishes like a hardy plant wherever it springs up , and a tradition that has endured for over 1,300 years is sure to endure for a few more . |
| 22 | The need for remedial work on the roof covering became apparent when the worn-out lead valley gutters began to leak , although discomfort from this source had to be endured for almost two years until the Repairs Grant was awarded . |
| 23 | This was Così fan tutte ( roughly translated — They 're all the same ) , one of Mozart 's greatest musical achievements , but an opera which remained misunderstood for over 150 years after his death . |
| 24 | My mother and I , that morning were to travel to Heathrow Airport to fly to Australia to see family and friends that we had not seen for over five years . |
| 25 | And it probably was stupid — if not downright ridiculous — for her to be still technically married to a man she had n't seen for almost five years . |
| 26 | Benedict , at less than ten years of age , was himself delivered into the care of the mother he had not seen for almost two years . |
| 27 | ‘ What do you think you 're doing … ? she gasped , still feeling shocked and disorientated by the sudden , totally unexpected appearance of the man she had n't seen for so many years . |
| 28 | In the pool of silence which fell between them Laura raised her eyes and took her first good , clear look at the man she had married , and whom she had n't seen for so many years . |
| 29 | I tell him — since this critic has n't liked anything he 's seen for about twenty years — ; it does n't matter if he comes on a wet Wednesday with no R in the month and a tram strike . |
| 30 | The Anglesey scheme operated for over 30 years , albeit rather intermittently for the past few years . |