Example sentences of "of several years " in BNC.
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| 1 | With reference to the article in June on breaking dormancy in sweet peas : experiments conducted over a period of several years at New College , Pontefract certainly seem to bear out Anne Swithinbank 's remarks . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , weak candidates still get failed , which is always a bitter and embarrassing business , negating the value of several years ' work , often leading to anger within a department , internal enquiries about the quality of supervision , and even threats of legal action from the disappointed candidate . |
| 3 | And the reward for dismissal is a golden handshake of several years ' pay . |
| 4 | A currency hoard is a sum of money put together by drawing all its coins from circulation on a single occasion , whereas a savings hoard is formed by gradually adding coins to a hoard over a period of several years ; the difference in the way the coins were collected will affect the internal composition of the hoard . |
| 5 | WESTERN analysts have been too complacent in supposing that the Japanese government , with its seemingly firm economic grip , can handle the consequences of several years of speculative boom . |
| 6 | This new extended edition is the result of several years of collaboration between the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Good and the RSC . |
| 7 | Some of these zones also vary markedly with time — through the day ; with the tides , and therefore with the phases of the moon ; by season ; and sometimes in cycles of several years ( see El Niño , overleaf ) . |
| 8 | In other instances , specific case files were raised to bring together all information related to individual projects , which could have a life-cycle of several years ; some sections were primarily concerned with specialist subjects on a geographical basis ( eg all the archaeological sites in each district of the County ) ; certain support services required files on matters of policy , or personnel , or finance , and so on . |
| 9 | Sometimes he would revert to a previous journey to a particular spot and described his personal experiences of several years before as in Vol I , pp. 111–113 when he describes how he had made sketches for plate Nos. 46 , 47 and 49 of Sixty Large Etchings . |
| 10 | No-one 's suggesting the magazine returns to its dilute if all-encompassing format of several years ago ; what we will be doing however , at certain times of the year , is responding to our reader 's main requests and interests . |
| 11 | AB : Most recently I have been playing Brahms 's 2nd Concerto a great deal after a break of several years . |
| 12 | In 1965 he achieved a personal ambition of several years by making the second winter traverse of Sky 's Cuillin Ridge . |
| 13 | However , and no doubt as a consequence of several years ' experience of the fruits of Truth in Lending Law , this proportion is still very much higher than the 5 per cent in this country who count APR as most important . |
| 14 | One way of studying the effects of changing agricultural practices on groundwater is to drill and redrill sites at intervals of several years to observe changes in the vertical profile of nitrate and other solutes in the unsaturated zone of aquifers . |
| 15 | Given the long dormancy of the virus , some people now in monogamous relationships of several years standing could have become HIV positive before they met their present partner , and be completely unaware of this fact . |
| 16 | There he entered a museum which had no antiquities , and in the course of several years built galleries to house two private collections which he brought to the museum . |
| 17 | The government 's thinking was further developed in The School Curriculum ( 1981 ) , which was clearly seen as the culminating point of several years of public discussion . |
| 18 | The millimetre to centimetre scale alternations , which record periods of more or less intense upwelling , represent time scales of several years to several tens of years and may represent a response to some internal oscillations of the equatorial Pacific such as El Nino . |
| 19 | The prize is intended to support research projects over a period of several years . |
| 20 | Presenting art in changing places , with its links to the warehouse party circuit of several years ago , is an exciting and original development , and brings fresh stimulus to the contemporary art market . |
| 21 | It seems to me significant that in the course of several years of investigation , and after consulting , quite extensively , with all the authorities concerned , no such evidence has emerged . |
| 22 | Although the evidence presented does not refute the claim that in the long run exchange rates compensate for domestic inflation differentials , it does show that over periods of several years real exchange rate anomalies can and do occur . |
| 23 | This was the beginning of several years of very active rock climbing on many crags . |
| 24 | So , probably , does the fact that his concubine of several years ' standing , whom he subsequently married , was the illegitimate daughter of archbishop George Neville . |
| 25 | Some models of hand calculators , for example , are on the market today for six months or less , whereas a life of several years or more was common during the 1970s . |
| 26 | The dividing line between a fixed ‘ site ’ and a portable ‘ find ’ is often a narrow one : for example , the site of the ship Mary Rose was excavated over a period of several years , but when the remains of the ship itself were eventually raised , they were treated like any other waterlogged find , albeit on a much larger scale . |
| 27 | Prisoners-of-war , wandering free men , peasants and natives were mobilized from time to time into detachments of foreign servicemen ( Litva ) or cossacks , and there were service gentry from European Russia stationed in the region for periods of several years . |
| 28 | Rostov decided that it was easier to go in search of what would pass in the Simonova for a command bridge than it was to remain in his quarters , while Vorontseff attempted to eradicate within the space of an hour the accumulated disarray of several years of civilian occupation . |
| 29 | The proceeds of our Oil Reserves are presently being used to cover short term deficiencies and there are really no increased national resources in spite of several years of additional oil revenue . |
| 30 | By the early 1980s the combined effect of several years of high interest rates , tight centrally-imposed borrowing limits and progressive sharp falls in the level of revenue expenditure borne by block grant , were placing increasingly onerous burdens on ratepayers . |