Example sentences of "year [vb pp] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , some who have for years looked after a spouse may sometimes have deeply resented the way that this has taken over their lives , particularly perhaps if this feels forced by cultural assumptions such as ‘ appropriate ’ roles for women in the domestic setting . |
| 2 | Adult education , on the other hand , has for many years suffered from a kind of amateurish approach — part of its charm no doubt . |
| 3 | The complete list is printed inside the cover of every certificate , and the following are samples only : rights of common , customary rights , public rights , right of sheepwalk , rights of way , rights of water , liability to repair highways by reason of tenure , liability to repair the chancel of any church , liability to repair embankments and sea or river walls , rights under local land charges , rights of fishing and sporting , manorial and seignorial rights of all descriptions ( until extinguished ) , leases for any term not exceeding 21 years granted at a rent without taking a fine , etc ( s70(1) ( a ) — ( k ) ) . |
| 4 | I have in recent years got into a deal of trouble in certain Commonwealth countries by claiming that any all-Canadian or Australian squadron was not as good as a mixed squadron . |
| 5 | Consequently , relations between African countries and international companies were for twenty years characterized by a battle to take some degree of national control . |
| 6 | Years spent as a printer had taught Cook the value of advertising and his handbills about the trips gave details of each town 's attractions , including the excellence of the shops . |
| 7 | ‘ Experience in language work ’ was frequently responded to by statements about the number of years spent as a teacher . |
| 8 | Now , after years spent behind a sewing machine in her husband 's dressmaking factory , she feels like a woman reborn . |
| 9 | ‘ I have for nearly nine years served as a law officer for Northern Ireland . |
| 10 | It measures the number of years taken for a shareholder to recover his initial investment ( assuming that all earnings are distributed ) ; alternatively , it measures the price an investor has to pay to buy 1 worth of income in the company . |
| 11 | More than 10 years passed before a reporter at the Capital Times of Madison discovered that Strickland , in mid-1971 , had become a stockholder and officer in a corporation set up by Heber to sell the very techniques of educational intervention that Strickland credited in his article . |
| 12 | It was as though she had spent the past twenty-two years imprisoned in a shell , and had now broken free of it , and was tasting sensations which she had never dreamed possible . |
| 13 | Nicholas , now starring in series like Only Fools And Horses and The Piglet Files , was this year nominated for a BAFTA Best Actor Award — while Andrew seems to have disappeared from our TV screens altogether . |
| 14 | THE recruitment and image crisis facing British industry was cruelly exposed yesterday by a report which revealed that two out of three university engineering students graduating this year decided against a career in engineering . |
| 15 | THE recruitment and image crisis facing British industry was cruelly exposed yesterday by a report which revealed that two out of three university engineering students graduating this year decided against a career in engineering . |
| 16 | Will he also remind them that we now have a surplus on steel products of £1 billion per year compared with a deficit of £1 billion per year under Labour ? |
| 17 | Only mortgage lending seems buoyant , running 18 per cent higher in the first two months of the year compared with a year ago . |
| 18 | He served on the BA 's Children 's bookselling committee , took part in the meetings of the book trade 's children 's books committee , and last year served as a judge for the children 's book section of the Whitbread Prize . |
| 19 | InformationWeek quotes Taligent Inc chief executive Joe Guglielmi as saying his folks have a version of its object-oriented operating system up and running on an Apple Computer Inc Macintosh Quadra : Taligent , which intends publishing specifications this year followed by a developer 's kit , has also written some low-level applications for the system along the lines of Apple 's MacDraw — but the final system is not due until 1995 . |
| 20 | First they were based on an ‘ Age Participation Rate ’ ( APR ) defined as ‘ the number of young home initial full time and sandwich entrants to HE in a given year expressed as a percentage of the 18 year old population ’ . |
| 21 | Although 39 members resigned in 1939 the year ended with a surplus of £50 . |