Example sentences of "years [verb] from [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adult education , on the other hand , has for many years suffered from a kind of amateurish approach — part of its charm no doubt . |
| 2 | Farmers with reasonable sized holdings were in a matter of years freed from the stranglehold of money lenders . |
| 3 | Launched this week aboard a two-stage Delta rocket from NASA 's Western Test Range at Lompoc , California , IRAS has taken nearly 10 years to progress from the drawing board to lift-off . |
| 4 | Cardiff castle has a history of more than 1900 years dating from the coming of the Romans in the first century . |
| 5 | But if , at the time the shares are subscribed they carry no voting rights for , say , the first five years , this does not give rise to a chargeable event when the five years have elapsed , because the entitlement to vote after five years exists from the outset . |
| 6 | of businesses in the region use the line and that it would take seven years to electrify from the date of commitment , it is essential that this project is linked into the Bill . |
| 7 | That sort of activity is light years removed from the drama of the Russian steppe , the pioneering excitement of the outback or the storm-lashed sense of achievement that taming the Atlantic brought . |
| 8 | The application of QALY theory would result in old people having less chance of cardiac surgery than younger people for two main reasons : firstly , the operation is likely to have a higher mortality and morbidity for older people ; secondly , older people have in general a shorter life expectancy and therefore fewer life years to gain from the operation . |
| 9 | One of the problems of studying nitrate pollution is that the water that replenishes aquifers — particularly the Chalk — typically takes many years to travel from the soil to the water table . |