Example sentences of "a [noun] [prep] [det] years " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | There has n't been a prince for some years . |
| 2 | Indeed , throughout the 1960s successive governments were struggling to balance the books and it was rather a case of some years being less bad than others . |
| 3 | Images have always crowded Bevan Davies ' mind and in an effort to capture them he has been a photographer for many years . |
| 4 | ’ Not till much later did I learn mother had been a diabetic for many years . |
| 5 | This had been a practice for many years , as the label from Day 's circulating library illustrated overleaf shows . |
| 6 | You could have had a gap of many years since you worked . |
| 7 | Often the coincidence turns out , on the shortest examination , to be unremarkable : typically , it might consist of two acquaintances from school or university running into one another after a gap of several years . |
| 8 | This assumes a gap of some years after full time schooling . |
| 9 | Elected by the students for a term of several years , rectors have been less exclusively drawn than most other senior officers of universities from ‘ establishment ’ circles : they have included a communist trade union leader and several television personalities , such as Malcolm Muggeridge , John Cleese and Muriel Gray . |
| 10 | ‘ We have been involved in such a partnership for some years now and the fact that many governors have been accompanied by their head teachers today is an indication of how successful it has been , ’ he added . |
| 11 | AB : Most recently I have been playing Brahms 's 2nd Concerto a great deal after a break of several years . |
| 12 | Subject membership is a hard-won achievement — a result of many years of studying and exploring that subject through school , through university and through teacher training . |
| 13 | As a result for many years their messages were read with ease . |
| 14 | The problem is , when you have conducted a piece for many years you have a knowledge of the interior musical structures that are closed to most theatre directors . |
| 15 | A journalist of many years ' experience , his ability and professionalism are well displayed in this excellent book . |
| 16 | A Sunderland woman in her twenties who had a lover for several years who spent some but not all of his time in her home , said , " We decided to start claiming together because there were a lot of snoopers around , and people I knew had got done . |
| 17 | It should be noted that the White Park and the British White , although sharing a herdbook for many years , are very separate and distinct breeds ; in fact the true White Park is genetically distant from all British breeds , including the British White . |
| 18 | After all , he was a serving liaison officer between the CIA and the White House , even if he had been little more than a sleeper for several years . |
| 19 | When I checked in Who 's Who I found that Jenner held down a post for several years at David 's old university . |
| 20 | It served at Ashford Works as a shunter for some years . |
| 21 | So if you have a place in this years ADT London Marathon or indeed any other running event please raise money for St. John Ambulance . |
| 22 | So if you have a place in this years ADT London Marathon or indeed any other running event please raise money for St. John Ambulance . |
| 23 | In fact the writings span a period of many years . |
| 24 | The interference with Primary Control builds up gradually , over a period of many years , and because of this most of us are unaware of moving in inefficient , and in many cases harmful , ways . |
| 25 | In practice , however , this is not essential for all species , and in particular those which have come acclimated to aquarium life over a period of many years are remarkably tolerant of what is strictly quite unsuitable water chemistry . |
| 26 | John Szarkowski wrote in the preface to the first volume : " Atget 's own prints were made over a period of many years , on a variety of photographic papers . |
| 27 | Over a period of many years I had a succession of research students working On the Eocene strata of the Isle of Wight , off the south coast of England . |
| 28 | Although the first fruits of this decision took place in l982 , the writing had been on the wall , and read by us many years before that , and it took a period of some years to find a way of moving out of polythene , which was not only ICI 's own proud invention , but an area where we had been acknowledged world leaders for many years . |
| 29 | Enormous growth in this business occurred through the substitution phase and for a period of some years the business was extremely profitable . |
| 30 | Tower Hamlets , acting under paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to the Act of 1967 , required Chetnik to pay rates on the buildings over a period of some years during which they were unoccupied because tenants could not be found . |