Example sentences of "[vb pp] several year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having doubts about this picture 's authenticity and surmising that it might be the same picture he had seen several years before , he again sought my opinion on the basis of a good photograph . |
| 2 | Colouring was done by hand , following pattern plates coloured by the artist , so that different copies of the same work , perhaps done several years apart in a slow-selling book , may differ considerably among themselves . |
| 3 | In addition , it is not unknown for a lease to be granted several years after the date of the agreement for lease particularly where the landlord 's own interest is leasehold and the completion of its lease is dependent upon various factors and conditions . |
| 4 | Apart from those on the far side of the road which were built several years later on on another complex |
| 5 | ‘ Athens , my chiefest joy , ’ he had written several years before he got there in vivid anticipation ; now he experienced its individual dynamic . |
| 6 | In a critical article written several years ago , Townsend concluded by reminding his readers what Tawney had written in 1913 . |
| 7 | All that had its 1930s precursors , such as the early fiction of George Orwell and Graham Greene ; and in an open letter to Elizabeth Bowen , written several years before the Movement was ever heard of , Greene had remarked that the novelist has a simple duty to tell the truth and to get it right : ‘ By truth I mean accuracy — it is largely a matter of style ’ . |
| 8 | Andrew Warren , the director of the Association for Energy Conservation , commented that the document contained no new ideas and " could have been written several years ago " . |
| 9 | Being part of the Garrowby estate , owned by the Earl of Halifax , it is rather unusual in this day and age as having no privately owned houses or farms , other than the old rectory which was sold several years ago when the parish became part of a joint ministry . |
| 10 | Then she put into words what her brother George had thought several years before . |
| 11 | This is a quite unique privilege as the list of clubs and organizations granted the right to wear special ensign was closed several years ago . |
| 12 | The pre-economic and monetary union full convergence measures are more severe in their final outturn than was anticipated several years ago when the whole debate began . |
| 13 | Here they discovered that their last great king had died several years previously , and still lay rotting in his widowed queen 's home . |
| 14 | The proposition that certain forms of secondary amenorrhoea are caused by the combined oral contraceptive was debunked several years ago . |
| 15 | This last , born several years later , when Dinah had hoped her childbearing days were done with , was a girl . |
| 16 | Membership had brought several years of sustained economic growth , with a high level of foreign investment . |
| 17 | Les , with the active support of his wife Pam , has spent several years listing the 1,000 prisoners , 600 of them RAF and himself among them , who were drafted to Ambon from Java in April 1943 . |
| 18 | He had spent several years in the Sudan and he gave us a tip : ‘ Never take a taxi there , ’ he said , ‘ without fixing the price for the journey before you get in . ’ |
| 19 | She herself was British , in fact , but having spent several years as a graduate student in California , where she had been converted to radical feminism , she now thought of herself as spiritually an American , and tried as far as possible to speak like one . |
| 20 | When an apprentice , after leaving school at thirteen , my father had spent several years as a striker — using a sledgehammer . |
| 21 | The woman returner can feel inadequate when she goes back to work , forgetting that she 's spent several years managing and developing human resources at home . |
| 22 | AI Japan had spent several years planning the ICM , and Asia , s hosting of the event was appropriate in view of the organisation 's commitment to developing AI in that region . |
| 23 | Hatta was assisted by another Holland-returned politician , Sutan Sjahrir , who had also spent several years in the Netherlands and become an admirer of the Dutch Socialist movement . |
| 24 | He had spent several years amongst the small Indonesian islands off Singapore . |
| 25 | For instance , the morphologists Mary Chen and Craig Bailey have spent several years studying and measuring the synapses of the Aplysia abdominal ganglion . |
| 26 | George has spent several years working for one of Office Cleaning 's main suppliers prior to joining Rentokil . |
| 27 | He was deeply opposed to fascism and fought with the partisans in the Second War , having spent several years in prison in the 1920s and 1930s . |
| 28 | But they were all quite delightful fellows about the same age as most of the airmen pupils , and we seemed to fit in very well with each other ; although most of us had spent several years in the RAF the acting pilot officers had only spent , say , a couple of months . |
| 29 | So when expansion plans were announced several years ago , notwithstanding the restraint with which the library goes about its business , there was some cause for alarm . |
| 30 | The most significant objection , however , was that it would have precluded private prosecutions , the importance of which was amply illustrated several years ago by the Glasgow rape case . |