Example sentences of "but [adv] [prep] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Above : The Confederate Air Force SB2C-5 Helldiver was part of a varied , but down on previous years , attendance at the charismatic Geneseo airfield . |
| 2 | This is expressly ruled out in the Act , but only for five years , although the Conservative Education Association recommended that the period should be ten years . |
| 3 | Now Mr Davies is told the gypsies can stay , but only for five years . |
| 4 | Under the so-called cost floor rule , discounts are restricted according to the level of outstanding debt on the house , but only for five years . |
| 5 | The World Health Organisation and many authors consider that BCG vaccination gives about 80% protection , but only for 15 years . |
| 6 | The military regimes in power have never been averse to arresting leaders of the political opposition , but only in recent years has this become a systematic practice . |
| 7 | Electroencephalography , it is true , had its origins in the nineteenth century but only in recent years has there been an acceleration of interest in lateralised electrophysiological phenomena . |
| 8 | Some Marxists , among them Rosa Luxemburg and the Austro-Marxists , were early critics of the Soviet dictatorship , but only in recent years was there a widespread and fundamental questioning of the whole idea of dictatorship , and a revaluation of peaceful , democratic forms of political change , especially by those intellectuals and political leaders associated with the Eurocommunist movement . |
| 9 | Others ( for example people with spinal Injuries or polio ) often experience a similar process of gradual deterioration , but only after many years of relative stability . |
| 10 | ‘ I think the vicar 's status has changed since Victorian times but not in recent years . |
| 11 | This was established by Act of Parliament as the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England — known as English Heritage — but not until nine years later . |
| 12 | For an initial period ( usually up to 12 months but up to 2 years for some people ) , your line manager will closely monitor your progress . |
| 13 | In the case of the couple or family considering the costs and benefits of a future child , the explicit consideration of rates of discount is rather different in that children are perceived to be a positive asset from early on in life but particularly after fifteen years or so when they can work effectively on the farm ( and so replace costly paid labour at times of peak labour demand ) or as a wage labourer . |
| 14 | The long-standing resistance to urban and industrial encroachment continues , but increasingly in recent years the defenders of the rural environment have found themselves fighting on two fronts . |
| 15 | It was a phrase with many shades of meaning , but essentially in these years it came to refer to that freedom from lay intervention in ecclesiastical appointments and operations which it was Hugh 's special mission to promote . |