Example sentences of "years and [adv] [vb -s] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those objections have been overridden , not least because USAir has lost $1 billion in the past three years and urgently needs BA 's cash , although the US transportation secretary , Federico Pena , laid down a warning marker on the type of negotiations to come when asked about British resistance to allowing US airlines to land at Heathrow Airport . |
| 2 | But those objections have been overridden , not least because USAir has lost $1 billion in the past three years and urgently needs BA 's cash , although the US Transportation Secretary , Federico Pena , also laid down a warning marker on the type of negotiations to come when asked about British resistance to allowing US airlines to land at Heathrow Airport . |
| 3 | ‘ People say the earth must be sour , but it has been there for eighteen years and still grows plants . |
| 4 | Fabric designs produced at Bourton on the Water in Gloucestershire have won a Queens Award for Warwick Fabrics , a company which started just 4 years and now sells 70% of output overseas . |
| 5 | Product differentiation and improvement has been occurring steadily over the years and now includes metal and wooden window frames , doors , storage tanks , household furniture , beds , as well as a much improved range of braziers , and tin trunks . |
| 6 | Mr Patten , speaking at a fringe meeting at the tory conference made the remarks about Professor Tim Brighouse who ran schools in Oxfordshire for eleven years and now heads Birmingham 's education department . |