Example sentences of "years and [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amsterdam Travel Service Ltd is part of a City Specialist Group that has been arranging holidays for over 36 years and as a Professional Tour Operator undertakes to act with thoroughly professional care in arranging your holiday . |
| 2 | A third , more general topic , is an assessment of Lord Balogh 's impact on economic policy both as an unofficial adviser to the Labour Party in the immediate postwar years and as an official adviser in the 1960s . |
| 3 | BI SAN A reverie lasting more than twenty years and of a religious nature |
| 4 | BIT SAN A reverie lasting more than twenty years and of a blasphemous nature |
| 5 | They 're still big , still noisy , but getting on in years and with a diminishing role thanks to the peace dividend . |
| 6 | Over a period of years and with a fierce amount of energy and commitment from Irish women in London and other parts of the country , our dedication to build a political organization of Irish women began to pay off . |
| 7 | ‘ This has been a subject that has been bubbling around for years and with an ageing population , it is an issue that has n't been talked about enough . ’ |
| 8 | Three years and near a thousand fuses later it was changed to gas . |
| 9 | If we consider the environment in the broadest sense , much monitoring of it has been in progress for many years and by an enormous diversity of organizations in the UK ; these include the DoE , the Forestry Commission , the Nature Conservancy , the Health and Safety Executive , local authorities , the component members of the Natural Environment Research Council ( such as the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology and the British Antarctic Survey ) , individuals or research groups in academia , the CEGB , the Friends of the Earth , and UK Centre for Economic and Environmental Development ( CEED ) ( 1989 ) . |