Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [adj] [adj] years " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ On a machine that no nome has been on for fifteen thousand years ? ’ said Masklin . |
| 2 | an used to be called metermarism and I say , it 's not a word it 's not a term I 've seen on for many many years and you do n't seen it many erm modern organic texts . |
| 3 | Well I think what came out of it firstly , was thanks to people like you , a tremendous amount of publicity for a problem that is certainly not a new one , one that has been going on for many many years . |
| 4 | He says without it the war would have gone on for many more years . |
| 5 | At the end of the 1975 season , he threw in the towel — though Hesketh , under Horsley , was to stagger on for two more years , with indifferent results . |
| 6 | Daily assessment has gone on for all these years , with tests occasionally being undertaken — that is a reality . |
| 7 | He says time may be running out — it has run out for alot … this may go on for several more years — we have n't go several more years . |
| 8 | His widow Margaret held on for another 45 years , beset on all sides by warring local landowners who claimed parts of the island , as its boundaries grew ever-closer to the Holderness mainland . |
| 9 | Are you saying you 're quite prepared to let them , how they cut it , you 'll let it go on for another two years without you doing anything about it ? |
| 10 | The slump is likely to go on for another two years . |
| 11 | And it 's gon na get worse if this situation of er you know erm jobs and that is gon na go on for another two years . |
| 12 | Well I do n't know , there are such good Japanese coupes now , you know you see these lovely Toyotas and Nissans that they do the sort of two plus two and they 're really lovely cars and but if I change c car this next year I 'll still have to have four seater or , you know , plenty of room in the boot so I can pick you up from Haileybury and all that crap , but if I hung on for another two years I could then get something I actually wanted , you know . |
| 13 | He is still optimistic that Richey 's conviction will be overturned , but the case could drag on for another six years or more . |
| 14 | Er , her father lived on for another six years . |
| 15 | Emma Cons lived on for another twelve years , continuing to work at her housing projects : but a new chapter had opened in the history of what was to become the Old Vic , as Lilian Baylis began to programme it for early films and then light opera and later Shakespeare . |
| 16 | And she soldiered on for another 15 years before she finally died . |
| 17 | The troubles are going on for over 20 years and the NI Office is doing very little about it , so it could go on for another 20 years . |
| 18 | McDougall carried on for another three years , when he was succeeded by Leslie Edwards . |
| 19 | He cleaned up his act , quit taking uppers and downers with the help of his wife and the Betty Ford Clinic , and now looks set to go on for another 40 years . |
| 20 | The situation was concealed in 1968 and 1969 as short-term capital was attracted to US banks by high interest rates : $12 billion flowed in during those two years , more than covering the long-term capital outflow . |
| 21 | What a way to return to the city I had lived in for ten too-long years and had left with but a rucksack on my back only a couple of months previously . |
| 22 | But how would he break the news to Georgina that he 'd let her down after all these years ? |
| 23 | If she 'd meant to lie , she 'd have planned the lies ; as it was , it was more like someone else speaking , someone for whom all the tales might be true : the tales of the amorous husband who would not be denied , or even delayed ; of her horrified discovery that her tried and trusted dutch cap had let her down after all these years , of her disappointment that she would not now be able to train as a doctor or run a campaign for more zebra crossings or offer a home to her poor ailing mother ; and then of course there were the medical difficulties , what with her diabetes and the early mongol child that died and all those Caesarians ; and the home where there was n't an inch of space and how the baby would mean eviction and bankruptcy ; and the fear that the baby might be too obviously of mixed-race ; and the over-riding , gut-rending terror that the baby might have royal blood ( of course if ever this got outside these walls there would be no answering for the political consequences for the western world ) and in the circumstances it seemed kind that the child should never be born . |
| 24 | The planned downsizing means that 5,000 more employees from the current 13,000 — down from 31,000 three years ago — will lose their jobs ; the sales target of $1,400m a year compares with $1,900m now . |
| 25 | So it 's a pleasure really , I think it 's true , I think there are very many people who undermine and er undervalue the contribution made by people who have been in politics for a long time and I think what they also forget is the level of commitment that these people have put in over many many years . |
| 26 | They took for granted all the hard work that my assistant , Billy McCullough and I put in over all those years . |
| 27 | He says : ‘ The will to succeed came through in those two years . |
| 28 | It 's expected work will start next year , with the first trains going through in another 2 years . |
| 29 | And at Fort Worth airport he asked a crowd of thousands : ‘ Do you think you 'd be better off with four more years ? |
| 30 | Popular with those who 've found romance late in life , and would like to make up for those lost years . |