Example sentences of "years [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doctors had known for 50 years about an enzyme that could dissolve the ligament without cutting . |
| 2 | Environmental groups have been lobbying for years about the issue . |
| 3 | This change of outlook was the result of a fusing of perceptions over some years about the character and behaviour of the West Indians as partners in the project of amelioration and gradual emancipation . |
| 4 | ‘ Now , however , this issue has been addressed again , this time taking into account what has been learned over the years about the effects of zero-point energy . |
| 5 | As a result , the controversy which had raged for many years about the date of the introduction of the denarius was resolved . |
| 6 | Politicians of both parties have become increasingly concerned in the last twenty years about the problems of house-buyers , in the face of spiralling land and building costs and high rates of mortgage interest . |
| 7 | I have been talking to the whites many years about the lands in question , and it is strange they can not understand me ; the country they claim belonged to my father , and when he died it was given to me and my people , and I will not leave it until I am compelled to . |
| 8 | ‘ All I 'm doing is being part of the quiet revival of the traditional novel , in which the commonplace doings and feelings of ordinary people are charted : the kind of novel that , with all the noise made in the past 25 years about the blockbuster and the literary novel , has been shouted down . |
| 9 | Students have been vocal in recent years about the lack of supervision and support in the wards . |
| 10 | In the Gulf of Maine , commercial mackerel fishermen have kept silent for years about the number of harbour porpoises dying in their nets . |
| 11 | There have been rumblings in recent years about the need for a more open Society but recent changes , typified by this open day , augur well for the future . |
| 12 | A study by Moxon ( 1999 : 15 ) shows that as many as two-fifths of those whose offences involved less than £200 received unsuspended custody ( largely as a result of past offending or being in breach of an existing court order ) in spite of the persistent concern in recent years about the need to restrict custody to only the most serious property offenders . |
| 13 | It 's only in the last few years that everyone has begun talking seriously about fibre in diet , although those who have always eaten a breakfast that includes all-bran have known for years about the virtues of fibre . |
| 14 | The discoveries made in the last 30 years about the action of drugs on the brain are important medically and philosophically . |
| 15 | There has been some bad press in recent years about the use of foam in cavity wall insulation and its possible side-effects on people 's health . |
| 16 | The British are still largely complacent about their eating habits , despite a barrage of advice in recent years about the importance of a healthy diet , according to a report by market researcher Mintel . |
| 17 | He says the county council has been trying to find out for 6 years about the planning of the east-west route because we were very worried about the effect it would have on Oxford and the countryside around Oxford . |
| 18 | As suggested in the last chapter , there has been a considerable amount of conflict in recent years about the autonomy of these authorities as ‘ policy makers ’ . |
| 19 | Fortunately he had been taken in by his mother 's father up to the age of six , living in a cottage by Denbigh castle ; but after this grandfather died he spent nine years as a child in St Asaph workhouse . |
| 20 | That I lived here for many years as a child , that — " |
| 21 | A stone by another roadside , on the isle of Skye , served for years as a door jamb in the Tote shoemaker 's house until rescued in about 1880 . |
| 22 | But then large portions of Jackson 's years as a recording artist have been spent picking back through complications he had no intention of creating . |
| 23 | After 13 years as a slave , Joseph becomes Pharaoh 's vizier . |
| 24 | Founded in 1953 , Dan-Air enjoyed many prosperous years as a holiday and scheduled airline before more recently running into deep financial difficulties . |
| 25 | Nothing in her 11 years as a member of the world 's most famous family had prepared her for the contents of the letter inside . |
| 26 | Towards the end of the Christmas term 1990 , the staff of the Modern Languages Department were invited to a buffet dinner in Crescent House by Professor Noel Thomas , who was retiring after some 25 years as a member — and for much of that period a key member — of the Department . |
| 27 | His membership of the Executive Committee has also included two years as a member of the Managers ' panel , 1989–91 and three years , 1976–79 , as Coleraine Area Secretary . |
| 28 | A retired engineer who has collected information on card indexes over 30 years as a member of the World Ship Society is devoting his full time to implementing such a database . |
| 29 | According to the paper , he had worked for 21 years as a judge and preacher and was an outstanding reciter of the Koran and the author of books on Islamic law . |
| 30 | After she had finished midwifery and two years as a Benedict 's junior sister she had joined the Royal Navy as a nursing sister for a few years . |