Example sentences of "year [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , ten years I inhabited that nightmare , living it day and night . |
| 2 | As a woodwork teacher for many years I consider this design to be dangerous because power drills run at a much higher speed than a brace and consequently the feed is too fast for accurate control . |
| 3 | And for many many years nobody wrote those stories down at all . |
| 4 | Yet such an assessment ignores the independent forces at work in the interwar years which caused economic performance to fall well below economic potential ; it also fails to take into account the record of poor growth over at least a quarter-century before 1914 . |
| 5 | In the two hundred years which followed English literature saw the flowering of the Renaissance . |
| 6 | This last problem particularly requires discussion of the recent contention that antislavery petitioning demonstrated a recurrent popular mobilisation , a mass antislavery latent even in seemingly quiescent years which spearheaded dramatic changes in the political culture and had a direct impact on legislature and executive . |
| 7 | For example , for several years she arranged regular Saturday evening social gatherings in Kettering for young people . |
| 8 | She was the British critics ' favourite on both the Bolshoi 's tours here , but for 20 years she played second fiddle to Grigorovich 's wife , Bessmertnova . |
| 9 | Every two years we reprint this product and we resell the advertising . |
| 10 | Over the years we have many times benefited form the advice and support which the CCPR gives so generously . |
| 11 | If in subsequent years we renew this overdraft , the fee will be reduced to ½%.; |
| 12 | If we look at the development of computers over the past 30 years we see accelerated change of a phenomenal nature . |
| 13 | For years they taunted bitter cross-town rivals Linfield for being a sectarian football club , for making Windsor Park a no-go area for Catholics . |
| 14 | In her early years it met three days a week , but in the final decades was meeting on six or seven . |
| 15 | After two years it has strategic alliances with DEC , HP , IBM , NCR , SGI and Sun , 100 customers , 500 development seats , 10,000 run-times out and 10,000 deployed applications . |
| 16 | It offended the friends and allies of the USA , especially in western Europe ; and in the Cold War years it provided splendid propaganda for her enemies in the Communist World . |
| 17 | For four years he led beaver-trapping expeditions along the Snake with increasing success , while the Nez Perce warriors confined themselves to fleecing the less provident of Mackenzie 's Iroquois henchmen . |
| 18 | In 3 years he launched 5 AI initiatives and identified 8 or 9 other possible applications . |
| 19 | Over the years he made numerous attempts to give up drinking altogether . |
| 20 | In his later years he suffered ill health and his work was curtailed . |
| 21 | Over the years he invented many improvements for Watt 's steam engines , including a D-shaped sliding valve which later came into common use for many types of steam engine . |
| 22 | By January 1315 he was a knight of the royal household and in the next two years he received various grants of lands , wardships , and money . |
| 23 | In the first years he had easy-going jailers . |
| 24 | For the first three years he endured abject misery . |
| 25 | He was elected a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1875 ; in his later years he wrote three papers on the Severn tunnel , one on ‘ arches ’ , and one on the disposal of sewage . |
| 26 | Most years he spent some time in Anagni or Segni , his home region ; otherwise Rome was his main place of residence . |
| 27 | Over those years he produced another serenata , Il rè pastore ( King as Shepherd ) , to a text by the famous Italian poet Pietro Metastasio ( whose texts were set to music countless times all over Europe by the best composers of the time ) for a state visit by Archduke Maximilian Franz ; another serenade ( K.204 ) written for the traditional end-of-term jollities at the university ; and several violin concertos , of which the last three ( in G , D and A major ) are standard repertoire today . |
| 28 | Over the next five years he tried both options . |
| 29 | During the next five years he travelled –40,000 kilometres and visited 45 different countries . |
| 30 | Over the first five years he introduced new locomotive designs and continued the development of the main-line ‘ Pacific ’ type , incorporating detailed improvements pioneered by George Jackson Churchward [ q.v. ] of the Great Western , whose work he greatly admired . |