Example sentences of "years [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the years the economics of different enterprises wax and wane : milk gives way to beef , livestock to arable , new husbandry methods are evolved , and new equipment is invented . |
| 2 | For years the economics of the nuclear power industry were concealed within the overall accounts of the public sector electricity industry . |
| 3 | An impression is provided by Fuller : " I am sorry to hear and loath to believe , what some credible persons have told me , that within these 20 years the copper within this country hath beet , wholly discontinued , and that not for want of metal , but mining it . |
| 4 | Returning to the All Blacks ' 11-match tour to Australia , the NZRFU has bowed to Australian pressure and loosened the grip on the Bledisloe Cup , for many years the symbol of Trans-Tasman supremacy , but which has only regained popularity in the last decade or so when Australia have been able to break the All Blacks ' hold on the Cup . |
| 5 | In recent years the forests on the other side of the river from the Gunung Leuser reserve have been clear-felled . |
| 6 | As in previous years the response to the ‘ prisoners of Conscience ’ programmes shown on the BBC in November/December 1990 has been tremendous and effective , and we are still answering 10 enquiries a week about prisoners . |
| 7 | For many years the response of the Central Authority remained the traditional one of the physical planner : new investment , irrespective of any rate of return required , was determined by predictions of demand made in physical terms with no allowance for the effect of price increases . |
| 8 | Over these years the size of special employment programmes increased substantially , largely as a consequence of a tripling of the number of places on the Community Programme . |
| 9 | In the coming years the size of the tax differential between spirits and wine will directly influence how that figure rises or falls . |
| 10 | In recent years the size of Greece 's foreign debt had become a significant factor in its economic problems , as EC transfers and loans were no longer able to cover widening deficits . |
| 11 | A tower of strength , he was for many years the Master in charge of the business side of the Library , supervising its odyssey around the School ; he had helped with lacrosse , with the School 's annual invasions of German-speaking Europe , with the financial side of the School Play . |
| 12 | GERRY Carson , for years the voice of the Eastern Health Board , has landed a major new public relations post at the Royal Group of Hospitals . |
| 13 | In some years the rite of Mass can serve our next and further Masses . |
| 14 | We urge the Government to reduce from 60 to 10 years the life of minerals permissions through new legislation , as proposed in the consultation paper . |
| 15 | For thirty years the structure of local government in England and Wales remained untouched . |
| 16 | For nearly 3,000 years the recording of historical events by the Egyptians was characterized by a preoccupation with royal lists and a lack of precise dates . |
| 17 | Yet within two years the percentage of sub-£2 assessments jumped from a modest 39½ to more than 56 . |
| 18 | In recent years the standard of new recruits has risen . |
| 19 | Over the past 10 years the debt of sub-Saharan countries has tripled to $180bn and these countries now hand over one third of their foreign exchange earnings in debt payments . |
| 20 | For many years the decision in Prince ( 1875 ) , in effect that the man is strictly liable when the girl is under 16 , has been paraded by academic lawyers as the acme of injustice . |
| 21 | Over the past four years the companies with the highest annual average growth in pre-tax profits per share ( excluding property and other capital items ) are Joseph Holt 17% , Morland 16% , Mansfield 16% , Adnams 14% , Hardys & Hansons 14% , Wolverhampton & Dudley 12% and Greenalls 11% . |
| 22 | Sir , Over the past few years the tide of public opinion has been turning strongly against smoking , but this tide of public opinion was stemmed somewhat , albeit inadvertently , by the valiant efforts by tobacco companies . |
| 23 | Although we have been going there for 10 years the excitement of seeing all our friends will never ever die and I hope it is going to stay a good , clean Holiday site for many years . |
| 24 | He was largely responsible for its recognition in the West : by his pioneering studies in ancient Indian art , such as Indian Sculpture and Painting ( 1908 ) and The Ideals of Indian Art ( 1911 ) ; by encouraging the fledgling Bengal School with sustained writings on its behalf ; and finally by helping to found the India Society with ( Sir ) William Rothenstein [ q.v. ] , for many years the bastion of Indian culture in Europe . |
| 25 | Pollen 's instruments in their final forms were in themselves significant scientific and technical achievements — the incorporation of a differential analyser in his gunnery computer ( known as the Argo clock ) , for example , anticipated by nearly twenty years the work in this important area of both D. R. Hartree [ q.v. ] and Vannevar Bush . |
| 26 | In recent years the stability of the international monetary system has been threatened by the debt problem of ‘ middle-income ’ countries such as Brazil and Argentina . |
| 27 | In recent years the discrediting of quangos has become a popular political pastime . |
| 28 | But in recent years the knowledge of the role of electricity in the treatment of disease has developed considerably , and there are no technical reasons why the findings and the techniques outlined can not be implemented and developed immediately by any competent specialist . |
| 29 | In those early years the horrors of travel merely reminded him what a long , long way Anna was from her own country , and he used to say that they owed it to her to make up for it . |
| 30 | For three hundred years the persecution of witchcraft was to continue until the advent of our modern scientific world . |