Example sentences of "in [noun sg] [prep] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does he agree that hill farmers had a substantial drop in income in recent years ? |
| 2 | The rage of the Iceni spread through the south-east , affecting first the Trinovantes who had been simmering in discontent for some years . |
| 3 | The company has been in existence for eight years now and is completely independent . |
| 4 | The Pinewood scheme , in existence for four years , covers nearly 300 households . |
| 5 | The Young England Rugby Club has been in existence for two years but is now being relaunched as a major part of the RFU youth initiative with its own clear aims and ambitions . |
| 6 | It is probable that a maypole tradition had already been in existence for many years , if not centuries . |
| 7 | The Beacon had been in existence for many years and in the past had catered for up to thirty children with a wide range of disabilities and needs . |
| 8 | We try to run a commercially oriented operation , but the profit is purely a method of ensuring that we can continue in existence for many years to come . |
| 9 | The Village Trust is a respected body which has been in existence for many years . |
| 10 | Group savings schemes and such like which have been in existence for many years . |
| 11 | Despite the fact that the Common Market has now been in existence for thirty-five years , despite also the fact that its main original raison d'être was to abolish obstacles to trade between Member States , a feature of the whole process has been the skill with which countries have managed to keep up their non-tariff trade barriers . |
| 12 | ‘ Are you aware ’ , she asked , ‘ that the National Society for the prevention of Cruelty to Children has now been in existence for ten years ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I thought that , since your society has been in existence for ten years , I might do an article on your work . ’ |
| 14 | Colonia Dignidad , situated in Parral , 400 km south of Santiago , and inhabited by an estimated 300 people , mainly West Germans , had been in existence for 28 years and was variously linked with slave labour , child sexual abuse , and the torture and disappearance of political prisoners . |
| 15 | However , Gen. José Dante Caridi , who had stood down as Army Chief of Staff after the rebellion , immediately denied the existence of any such deal ( as did his successor , Gen. Francisco Gassino , who warned that he would respond firmly to any further mutinies ) and accused Seineldin of excessive nationalism and fundamentalism and of being involved in a group of Army conspirators which had been in existence for 25 years . |
| 16 | CONTOUR has now been in existence for three years . |
| 17 | The formal re-launch of HCIMA Ghana — in existence for 15 years — took place in June . |
| 18 | Braintree Concerts Music Club has been in existence for 22 years , but is looking for new ways to promote itself following the decision by the district council to withdraw its grant . |
| 19 | English Estates had been in existence for some years , but its traditional role had been factory building and commercial development on green field sites with 5,000 factories and offices on 508 estates . |
| 20 | The EGBT have been in existence for some years and have proved themselves a respectable and reliable organisation with several completed projects to their credit . |
| 21 | Easthall Residents ' Association ( ERA ) has been in existence for 20 years and has been involved in numerous issues affecting the community . |
| 22 | If you present professional politicians with a proposal , and they do n't know whether their organisation will even be in existence in two years ’ time , they 're not going to go ahead — because they wo n't get the credit . |
| 23 | It has floundered in recession for five years . |
| 24 | also history if I might just say that when the Post Office er split from the Civil Service , the firm was in deficit for twenty years and of course Post Office management say quite clearly that they were putting in sums of eighteen per cent of the pay bill when it was only supposed to be nine per cent of the pay bill and that 's why they 're entitled to the to the surplus . |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | At present , horizontal presses of between 2,000 and 8,000 kilograms are allowed , but trials with larger machines have been in progress for several years . |
| 27 | Reclamation of the foreshore to seaward of the Imperial Dock was extended to the Eastern Breakwater to complete a scheme which had been in progress for several years and which would provide additional space for industry . |
| 28 | ‘ In May next year she will have been in remission for five years , ’ explains her mum . |
| 29 | An obstructive episode was treated with bypass enteroenteric anastomosis and maintenance prenisolone and he remained in remission for five years . |
| 30 | She had lived in Darrowby for several years but the townsfolk knew little about her . |