Example sentences of "but [prep] [adj] years it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Birds respond to a wide range of sounds but for many years it was assumed that their low-frequency hearing was poorer than ours . |
| 2 | But for several years it remained extremely basic , with only small , medium and large sizes remotely possible so long as the styles were kept simple . |
| 3 | Glass-fibre remains an inexpensive and effective reinforcement material , but in recent years it has been upstaged by Kevlar and carbon fibre , two stronger but more costly materials that owe their high profile largely to their use in formula racing cars . |
| 4 | The company at one time had a significant tie to the defence industry , but in recent years it has focused on what it knows best — speciality chemicals . |
| 5 | But in recent years it has lost its fury . |
| 6 | It was traditionally associated with Persia and the southern Caucasus , but in recent years it has been incorporated into the repertoire of weaving groups in other rug-making countries . |
| 7 | This is less true of public sector services than of the private sector , but in recent years it is in the latter that growth in employment has been concentrated . |
| 8 | Much of the Forestry Commission 's early planting was certainly crude and insensitive , but in recent years it has become more attentive to its landscaping responsibilities ( not least because the Forestry Commission has found that there is money to be made out of tourism if it does so ) and now employs landscape consultants to advise on its planting policies . |
| 9 | Often they still are , but in recent years it has become common for other senior academics to act as heads of departments , sometimes in rotation . |
| 10 | Like many a similar building it had declined in status but in recent years it has been handsomely restored to its former glory . |
| 11 | Of the domestic borrowers , local authorities issued , in the years between the mid-1950s and the early 1980s , a large volume of stocks ( over five years to maturity ) and negotiable bonds ( from one to four years to maturity ) ; but in recent years it has been government policy to centralise most public-sector borrowing and as a result public issues by local authorities have all but ceased . |
| 12 | Wherein their Superior Effects for the cure of gun-shot wounds … ‘ , but in those years it was still an uncouth place , better fitted to receive the injured soldiery than sickly , comfort-loving bourgeois . |
| 13 | The CBOE began with option contracts on only 16 blue chip shares , but within 10 years it and 3 other exchanges offered about 9500 different option contracts on 350 securities ( out of a total of about 6,000 US listed stocks ) . |