Example sentences of "but [prep] [art] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no village now , but for a thousand years there has been a manor . |
| 2 | But during the two years between the time when the book was first mooted and its publication in 1982 , the company had transformed itself and the book did not reflect the grander style of living which Laura was now espousing . |
| 3 | ‘ But during the Gaullist years , people said it was propaganda for De Gaulle , ’ he sighs , weary of denying either political message or moralising . |
| 4 | In Chronic Diseases we are told that when giving remedies in solid form i.e. solid form i.e. granules or powders dry on the tongue , Hahnemann found that remedies prepared with more than two shakes were too strong so stayed with two strokes for consistency ; but during the last years since I have been giving every dose of medicine in a solution , divided over fifteen , twenty or thirty days and even more , no potentizing in an attenuating vial is found too strong , and again I use ten strokes . ’ |
| 5 | These lovely plants may take time to form large flowering clumps but after a few years are a sight to behold and are worth every bit of effort you expend . |
| 6 | A small drapers , ‘ Palmers ’ , was next door but after a few years this became a Baby Wear shop . |
| 7 | It is clear that the bunched replacement of fixed capital requires a considerable growth in the rate of the production of fixed assets , but after a few years the need for such replacement will decline rapidly . |
| 8 | Margo went from strength to strength , with bigger and better parts , but after a few years turned to acting and much later married an Australian singer/actor , Rod McLennon , and went to live in Melbourne . |
| 9 | But after a few years of this , you ca n't really see any attraction in it , except the security , of course . |
| 10 | But after a few years I discovered I was not earning enough money from my patients . |
| 11 | But in a few years it could find applications in the long-term treatment of parasitic diseases , and even as a contraceptive pill . |
| 12 | It employs 1,000 people now , just as it did in 1981 , but in the intervening years it has had to take on far more duties — most notably the upkeep of its building which was looked after by the government from 1816 to 1988 . |
| 13 | Tailors in 1814 were very much on a level in terms of real wages with 1795 , but in the intervening years had been significantly down on that level in eight years , and very seriously below it in 1800 and 1801 when their weekly wage would buy only half the quantity of bread it had purchased from 1777 to 1795 . |
| 14 | In fact public expenditure fell to as low as 39% of GDP in 1988/89 , but in the recessionary years of the early 1990s the percentage has started to rise once again . |
| 15 | But in the early years of his editorship he had also wanted to achieve something quite different from other contemporary periodicals — he was trying to express , if not create , a genuinely European consciousness which would subvert the characteristically insular nature of English cultural life . |
| 16 | The school had a capacity to accept 625 boys but in the relevant years the school was not full to capacity . |
| 17 | But in the first years of the twentieth century the scale of such efforts sharply increased . |
| 18 | This was a formidable programme for a king whose father had been defeated and captured by the English only eight years earlier , and who had agreed to a treaty which conceded a Greater Aquitaine in full sovereignty to Edward III ; but in the sixteen years of his reign Charles achieved each one of these objects except the last , and even though he did not attack and destroy England , French and Castilian naval raids along the south coast induced a sense of panic and defensiveness unknown in England since the very earliest months of the war . |
| 19 | But in the golden years institutionalized pay bargaining constituted one of the transmission mechanisms through which the requirements of accumulation , and the competitive struggles bred by them , generated the necessary real wage increases . |
| 20 | Such an idea led to isolated fragmentation of the forest , but in the 10 years up to 1977 over 11000 km of roads were built and settlers moved in . |
| 21 | But in the three years he had worked for her , she had n't deceived him . |
| 22 | But within a few years , before the majority of LEAs could submit their schemes for departmental approval , a combination of factors forced the closure of the half-dozen or so schools which had opened . |
| 23 | But within a few years the Americans were using new machines , a fraction of the size , that an unskilled woman could operate for a fraction of the pay , and upon which she could spin as many stockings an hour as the Black Beauty — and without seams . |
| 24 | But within a few years of the end of the war , responsibility for trunk roads , gas , electricity , national assistance and hospital services had been transferred from local to central government control . |
| 25 | But within a few years Browne 's fortunes were restored : he acquired monopolies of the manufacture and sales of both iron and bronze ordnance , as well as iron pots , kettles , chimney backs , and iron weights ‘ in the French manner ’ . |
| 26 | He moved to Glasgow and established himself as a provision merchant , but within a few years decided that there were better prospects in the iron trade . |
| 27 | At its very inception , the world was hot , but within a billion years of its origin , parts of it at least were at the kinds of temperatures in which complex organic chemistry could take place . |
| 28 | ‘ But until a few years ago you were chairman , Mr Glastonbury . ’ |
| 29 | But from the early years of the twentieth century to the 1930s classical styles reigned supreme for all larger city stations . |
| 30 | But by the early years of the twentieth century such proposals were receiving more serious and widespread attention than ever before . |