Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [prep] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been paying National Insurance and taxes for many years . |
| 2 | This sector of the industry has been characterized by an extraordinarily rapid series of takeovers and mergers in recent years to create the multiples shown . |
| 3 | He goes to work abroad for Herbert , in the firm in which he had earlier secretly bought his friend a partnership , and returns after many years , meeting Estella , who had been wretchedly married to Bentley Drummle and who is now widowed , in the ruins of Miss Havisham 's house . |
| 4 | Essential oils , expensive patent ‘ cures ’ , anti-cellulite creams and tough massage alone can not shift cellulite — especially that which has been in the hips and thighs for many years . |
| 5 | The former has written a foreword to Everest : The Best Writing and Pictures from Seventy Years of Human Endeavour ( Little , Brown , May , £25 ) edited by Peter Gillman , which has over 150 colour and black and white photographs . |
| 6 | Arguably , two of the best , are Coronation Everest ( Boxtree , £6.99 ) a reprint of Jan Morris 's account of Hunt 's successful 1953 expedition , and Everest , The Best Writing and Pictures from Seventy Years of Human Endeavour ( Little Brown , £25 ) . |
| 7 | Others who have undertaken the care of the church and halls in later years have been Mrs Bell , Mrs Carson , Mr and Mrs Redpath , Mr James Twyble , Mr John Lavery , Mrs David Binks , Mrs K McClatchey and Mr William McFadden . |
| 8 | Zeng was deeply affected by being exposed to a wider range of photographic influences and styles during these years , but it took an exhibition of Cartier-Bresson 's work in Peking in 1987 to finally convince him that photographs could actually carry meaning and profundities just as a painting or a piece of music can . |
| 9 | The former knew he wanted to be a comedian from an early age while the latter juggled his showbiz work with a full-time career as a marketing manager for Unilever products such as deodorants and shampoos until two years ago . |
| 10 | The system is now geared to be accessed on-line , typically through a specialist systems house , such as Donovan Data Services ( DDS ) , and the thick weekly two-volume printed reports familiar to all TV buyers and planners for many years are no more . |
| 11 | While the strip cartoons are produced with a small team , the latest multi-million dollar animated feature film has occupied an international team of as many as 300 artists and technicians for two years . |
| 12 | From mid-1995 , all member states will pay royalties to performers , record producers and broadcasters for 50 years after the original broadcast or publication of work . |
| 13 | The abandonment of free trade by Britain in 1931/2 has attracted growing interest from historians and economists in recent years . |
| 14 | I remind the House that we have had a debate on rights , freedoms and responsibilities for many years . |
| 15 | Incidentally , bitches may not be bred from more than once a year and strictly not when under the age of two years old and dogs of two years and under may not be used at stud . |
| 16 | On the contrary , the sadness was outweighed by anger over the deprivations that had presented the emergence of black Pollocks and Procters for 200 years in South Africa — deprivations that were now being remedied mainly because of the success of the long boycott . |
| 17 | The winners and losers , facts and figures from 66 years of the Academy Awards . |
| 18 | Although ‘ the growing relevance of social work research to daily practice ’ may be one of the ‘ most significant of the changes to face social workers and agencies in recent years ’ ( David Jones , General Secretary , British Association of Social Workers ) it is still regrettably true that knowledge and use of research findings in policy and practice are relatively uncommon , and rarely a regular part of routine thinking and planning . |
| 19 | Due to staff shortages and changes in previous years , a backlog of about 25,000 withdrawals from the SUC had accumulated . |
| 20 | KENT COUNTY CRICKET CLUB 1992 ANNUAL — Editorial protest at the continuing disturbance to county cricket 's structure and acknowledgement of a 1991 deficit of almost £70,000 prefaces optimistic report on the newly-built indoor centre and reflections on 150 years of cricket at Canterbury , including a Blythe/Fry incident in 1911 . |
| 21 | Caraway is one of the most ancient of herbs , and it was valued by the Arabs and Egyptians of 5,000 years ago , who called it Karawya . |
| 22 | An increase of 21 per cent was planned for recurrent spending , projected at KSh49,456 million , while development spending was projected at KSh18,442 million , up 14.4 per cent on actual spending in the previous year ; the balance — KSh1,402 million — consisted of supplementary votes and under-issues from previous years . |
| 23 | By December 1761 the observations and modifications of several years ' practical experience led Sutton to believe he had perfected his method . |
| 24 | Most of her research and publications in recent years have concerned residential care , quality of life , and social work developments in relation to older people and their families . |
| 25 | Conditions of brothers and sisters for many years . |
| 26 | JR had a feeling that theirs would be a hotch potch of additions and amendments over many years , and written in semi-archaic English , with scant regard for cohesion and the most recent legislation . |
| 27 | Indexers have used controlled language indexing and authority lists of standard forms of terms and names for many years . |
| 28 | A DOOR-to-door salesman who peddled cloths and brushes for 30 years left £12 million in his will , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 29 | YWA 's answer to the Guest Tea has been the annual Treasure Hunt and Barbecue which has been enjoyed by many Edenderry members and friends in recent years . |
| 30 | The books draw on the experiences of Christians in Guatemala , whose faith has strengthened and supported them through the hardships and challenges of recent years . |