Example sentences of "but [verb] [prep] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The TransPennine service , launched a century ago but struggling in recent years , has been turned into one of its flagship operations . |
| 2 | The TransPennine service , launched a century ago but struggling in recent years , has been turned into one of its flagship operations . |
| 3 | The very principle of social insurance lies not merely threatened but broken by 12 years of abuse by the Government . |
| 4 | The creature is often seen on the Idwal Slabs in North Wales and Stanage and Laddow Rocks in the South Pennines but has of recent years migrated on to the Craven limestone . |
| 5 | from then she became one of the best-known faces on Australian television but quit after four years to try new acting challenges . |
| 6 | The Thwaites family farmed West Hury , which had a previous existence as the Hare and Hounds public house , but left after ten years to move to High Birk Hatt in 1920 . |
| 7 | ( The Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic had become a member on April 7 , 1948 , but had for many years maintained only token participation in the organization . ) |
| 8 | Saddened that polytechnics have been unable to throw off the second-class public image , Teesside University 's director , Dr Michael Longfield said : ‘ The three polytechnics in the North-East have been universities in all but name for many years . ’ |