Example sentences of "not [verb] for [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The English way has not altered for 30 years , ’ he says . |
| 2 | So this is not intended for five years old , it actually refers to new vehicles . |
| 3 | On Saturday they travel to Ayr — where the Fifers have not won for 10 years — knowing that victory at Somerset Park would take them up if Dunfermline beat Kilmarnock at East End Park . |
| 4 | They did not know then , were not to know for many years , were never fully to understand what it was that held them together — a sense of being on the margins of English life , perhaps , a sense of being outsiders , looking in from a cold street through a lighted window into a warm lit room that later might prove to be their own ? |
| 5 | As promised , his regime had delivered a degree of governmental stability that France had not enjoyed for many years . |
| 6 | The idea of the emergent Pacific was not in anyone 's mind , and in any case the reality of it was not to appear for many years . |
| 7 | Despite living only about 10 minutes from each other , the two have not met for 50 years . |
| 8 | ‘ I have not prayed for twenty years , ’ he told Elliott , ‘ and on Sundays I plan how to kill Portuguese . ’ |
| 9 | The unions said the minister promised them in a private April 19 meeting that the operator 's status would not budge for two years . |
| 10 | He let himself think , as he had not done for many years , of Célestine , of their year together in London , and as he had known it would , the memory made him deeply unhappy . |
| 11 | He put his arm around her shoulders , as he had not done for many years . |
| 12 | It is hitting even my constituency in a way it has not done for many years . |
| 13 | Naked , she walked into the bathroom and there surveyed herself in a way she had not done for some years . |
| 14 | Mr. Major said that the inflation figure was remarkable in a way not seen for many years . |
| 15 | In Tokyo , the Nikkei share index continued its nosedive into depths not seen for five years , despite government efforts to stimulate the slowing economy and the maudlin market . |
| 16 | In this new atmosphere the legislature displayed a determination to defend itself against executive encroachment , not seen for some years . |
| 17 | GORDON Turner has launched a search for the pal he has not seen for forty years . |
| 18 | Some parts of the house he had not seen for twenty years . |
| 19 | Holden 's story contains no suspense , while Lucy 's grips the reader totally ; for example she ‘ forgets ’ to inform the reader for six chapters that ‘ Dr. John ’ is in fact her cousin whom she has not seen for ten years ! |
| 20 | This is another area where liability may not emerge for several years , as in the case of industrial disease . |
| 21 | In Mexico the moon covered the Sun for 6 minutes and 54 seconds ; the next comparable solar eclipse would not occur for 140 years . |
| 22 | ‘ These are words I 've not used for five years . ’ |
| 23 | Aycock has not shown for some years and so fans of her precisely-crafted contraptions have a great treat in store when her show opens at John Weber on 13 February . |
| 24 | The law-makers , roundly condemned by Brian Moore , England 's hooker , on the nonsensical grounds that they have not played for 40 years , have decided that when a maul — ball in hand — grinds to a halt , or the ball becomes unplayable , the team not in possession at the start of the maul should put the ball into an ensuing scrum . |
| 25 | The Cornish are fortunate to be able to paint their regional discontents in the attractive colours of Celtic tradition , which makes them so much more visible , even though it leads some of them to reinvent a language not spoken for 200 years , and even though the only popular public tradition with genuine roots in the country is Wesleyan Methodism . |
| 26 | ( vii ) Persons guilty of a corrupt practice are disqualified from standing in any constituency for five years ; persons guilty of an illegal practice may not stand for five years in the constituency in which the offence was committed ( see above , pp.75–6 ) . |
| 27 | Not like it is now ; it 's not rained for twenty years . ’ |
| 28 | Her own sense of failure was projected into others in order to ward off a depression about herself which finally overwhelmed her and was not to lift for some years . |
| 29 | A further merger took place in 1847 when the Edinburgh and Dundee Steam Packet Company joined the fleet and in 1852 when regular sailings to Hamburg commenced the name was changed to Leith , Hull and Hamburgh Steam Packet Company ( the spelling of the word ‘ Hamburgh ’ was not to change for some years hence ) . |
| 30 | Although working people are now more likely to be contributing to an occupational or personal pension , even in future years not all people will have been able to accumulate sufficient provision to support themselves in retirement — for example those people who have not worked for many years because they were unemployed or disabled or caring for relatives . |