Example sentences of "[to-vb] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A chap I used to know years ago . ’ |
| 2 | had actually taken him on that he used to know years ago and had finished the |
| 3 | I know of one pub where an ‘ old timer ’ will grudgingly show you a fine piece of ‘ gold ore ’ that he was lucky enough to find years ago . |
| 4 | For one thing it has prompted a full-scale review of all the carving at Hampton Court and given the restorers the opportunity to reverse years of general neglect . |
| 5 | He was intensely serious about the place of art in life , and I can remember painting a picture in the main art room at Berkhamstead , one I was to sell years later in Manchester , and the way in which he valued this gave me a sense of value in my own achievement . |
| 6 | Even where communities have got together to build a school themselves , under an agreement with the government , they have sometimes had to wait years before the government sends teachers to staff it . |
| 7 | ABBA MAY HAVE HAD TO WAIT YEARS , but the Right Said Fred tribute industry is starting up early . |
| 8 | To deal with this , a group of merchants who wanted to trade in a particular part of the world would ask the monarch for a charter allowing them a monopoly of bringing goods from their chosen region into England , giving them rights to defend themselves against pirates and bandits with their own armed force , and letting them settle legal problems that would otherwise have to wait years until they got back to England . |
| 9 | In the first chapter we discussed the problems of the application backlog , where user departments may have to wait years for the implementation of systems . |
| 10 | ‘ I like to think that I have a lot to offer as well and I do n't want to have to wait years before I get the opportunity to prove myself . |
| 11 | As composite seven points out , when our members are injured or made ill by their work , they should not have to wait years for compensation , we need a system which is swift , fair and comprehensive . |
| 12 | They are told that their children will have to endure years of wandering in the wilderness , suffering because of the faithlessness of their parents , until , God tells them , ‘ … the last of your dead bodies lies in the wilderness ’ . |
| 13 | These included the possibility of building study skills systematically into a PSD course to be extended to cover years 1–5 , the possibility of extending the IS provision to include study skills in years 1–3 , and the possibility of a new , totally free-standing study skills course . |
| 14 | Though not so revolutionary as to require years of testing and modification ( and run the risk of ultimate rejection as in the case of the Advanced Passenger Train ) . |
| 15 | Mr Keating is being urged to act quickly to avoid years of uncertainty while new claims are fought through the courts . |
| 16 | So here you have no revision under naive expectations we have four right Now the the closer that our expectations come to gamma , lies to one the more weight farmers attach to last years price relative to prices in T minus two , T minus three , T minus four right . |
| 17 | used to do years ago because they were working or whatever . |
| 18 | Ah just er how I used to do years ago |
| 19 | We never had this problem years ago , I mean it 's only do-gooders who stopped the stuff we used to use years ago which was a reasonable price , who 's caused all these problems . |
| 20 | So mining companies are reluctant to waste years — and much cash on legal fees — in determining to whom they should pay royalties once they have found a deposit . |
| 21 | Some names have already been mentioned but it is possible to think of so many : of Mr Tommy and Mr Bobbie Reynolds and their work in choir and Sunday School , of the dignified and gracious figures of Mr and Mrs T H Watson ( parents of the Reverend George Watson ) , of Mr W A Mullen DL and his son Mr Cecil Mullen , generous and energetic benefactors of the church in so many ways , of Mr R J Magowan OBE JP for over 40 years secretary of the Trustees , of the brothers Mr Herbie and Mr David McClatchey , their service as Trustees and members of the choir , of Mr David Lyttle , Mr Norman Lyttle and Mr Sammy Lyttle , active in all aspects of the church 's life but especially concerned with choir and Sunday Schools of Mr Willie Holmes and his daughters Winnie and Amy , of Mr David Lamb and his family , of Mr Twinem Jackson , who , with Mr Magowan , still had time to give years of public service to the community at large in Portadown , of Mr C J McKinley , concerned with the Building Fund over the years and Superintendent of the morning Sunday School from 1943 to the 1960s , of Mrs Sleator with her wholehearted love for the church and for people , of Mr Bertie Montgomery , always cheerful and serene , who , among so many other things , began the practice of taping the services for the benefit of the elderly and housebound , of M Alfred Shortt and his long and generous association with the Sunday School , or Mr Dan Humphries , helping over the years with the church 's finances , of members of the Calvert and Hardy families and of those who , belonging to other Societies , nevertheless gave years of service to Edenderry — Mr Sam Robinson , Mr Joseph Cranston , Mr John Curry , Mr James Mullen , Mr W J Green , Mr Isaac Holland , Mr Eric Walker , and Mr William Bustard . |
| 22 | The 4080 series hubs are IEEE 10BaseT compliant and are built around a single , integrated circuit to ensure years of trouble-free service . |
| 23 | It had ‘ failed to make my flesh creep ’ , he reports guardedly , in a phrase he was to repeat years later about it in his life of Ronald Knox ( 1959 ) , and failed because it had denied the existence of the soul and omitted all mention of the Church . |
| 24 | This chapter examines two aspects of organizational planning : the corporate plan , which usually covers a period of three to live years ; and the annual budget , which looks at one year of that plan in much greater detail . |
| 25 | But while such consideration may present a practical obstacle , they impose no limit on the imagination of VR 's innovators to speculate on its possibilities ; possibilities they believe to lie years rather than decades away . |
| 26 | The local authorities who approved such acts seemed unaware of the immense capital sums , not to mention years of work , that had gone into creating these libraries since their foundation in Victorian times , and their complete loss by the simple act of dispersal . |
| 27 | Expenditure was relatively high not because of extravagant socialist schemes , but because the labour group attempted to overcome years of neglect by providing basic needs for a rapidly increasing population . |
| 28 | Although they have chosen to deal with personal dilemmas , the songs in Mama Mozambiki can also be seen as metaphors for what is happening in a nation struggling to overcome years of civil war fuelled by South African destabilization . |
| 29 | Although they have chosen to deal with personal dilemmas , the songs in Mama Mozambiki can also be seen as metaphors for what is happening in a nation struggling to overcome years of civil war fuelled by South African destabilization . |
| 30 | After that he learned first to carry with him everywhere his own survival kit of razor , toothpaste and cigarettes against the likelihood of arrest , and then to survive years in prison surrounded by gaolers like characters out of his own plays , who lived by the laws of the regime 's own absurdist , reality-denying logic . |