Example sentences of "[det] years [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More individuals therefore enter the population in some years than in others . |
| 2 | Furthermore , since males become sexually mature later than females , a smaller male proportion may be entering the reproductive population in some years than in others . |
| 3 | It must be admitted that Château Meloch was a great deal better some years than others , and although it was often possible to be amused by its presumption , it was equally likely to be pronounced fit only for cooking — and on one occasion its only possible use was as a substitute for vinegar . |
| 4 | ‘ My father-in-law was well aware of all this ; it has been going on for some years but he would not do what was necessary to right the situation , that is cut out the loss makers and , perhaps , substitute other lines — stationery , office equipment , videos or any other line compatible with the book trade . ’ |
| 5 | Margaret was in the Air Force for some years but I could n't say what they did for work . |
| 6 | After 1967 Jordan hoped that it could recover the West Bank , and believed for some years that this would be possible . |
| 7 | It was only after some years that he found the Thun-Hohensteins , who had also taken refuge in Bavaria , and could give it back to them . |
| 8 | I was on a local council for some years that thought it was well run , but we still found it possible to get rid of a tier of management . |
| 9 | We have been aware for some years that the relational model and relational database systems have not been able to represent some real-world concepts and activities , and there have been many papers and conferences devoted to the study of extensions and refinements to the original model of Codd ( 1970 ) . |
| 10 | Crossman joined Ambrose 's Embassy Club Orchestra in 1926 , some years before the band made its name as the finest jazz group in Europe . |
| 11 | I drew a peg in the bend which I had drawn some years before and knew there were a few fish there and decided on one rig only — the pole . |
| 12 | Though debt-for-equity swaps represent one way for banks to recover part of their developing country debt exposure , they still stand to lose money and look likely to have to wait for some years before they can cash in their equity stakes . |
| 13 | It was some years before I went that way again , and something had happened . |
| 14 | Whereas things appeared stable in Britain at that time , overseas there existed events of change — in Italy there existed no unity and much of the land was occupied by the forces of Austria , but they were removed and in 1833 , a united Italy was advocated under Papal rule , but that proved not to be successful and it would be some years before Garibaldi was able to form the Italian National Association for the Unification of Italy which only achieved its objective in 1871 . |
| 15 | I 'm beginning to be quite confident that we were right , though it will be some years before we can be really certain we 've made the breakthrough . |
| 16 | My father and mother had died some years before and I lived with my brother Rabah , my sister Rabiha , my wife Sulafa and my baby son . |
| 17 | It is likely to be some years before such a product is on the open market . |
| 18 | It had been converted some years before Miss Dalgliesh had bought it by the addition of a flint-faced , two-storey building with a large sitting room , smaller study and a kitchen on the ground floor and three bedrooms , two of them with their own bathrooms , on the floor above . |
| 19 | It was a diamond shape , flown as the Flexi-kite for some years before the patent application was made , and it heralded the concept of a lifting surface with two cones which could be controlled as a parachute or kite . |
| 20 | The high sides will help prevent the gravel being kicked into the garden , so it will be some years before you need to top it up . |
| 21 | Without a base , then , Mario had only his private ambitions to fulfil , and it was to be some years before he did . |
| 22 | LEFT Fred Hoyle in 1955 , some years before he , Bond i and Gold propounded the Steady State Theory of the Universe . |
| 23 | It was , however , to be some years before the broad outlines of his findings were accepted . |
| 24 | Where there were examples of co-residence , the joint household had been established some years before the elderly person needed physical care , and a number of these households had been created by the younger generation(s) moving in with the parent , not the other way round . |
| 25 | Next door , in the house on the right , someone had been watching the visitor 's arrival from the side of an upstairs window , a middle-aged woman with a startling mass of red hair piled high above a powdered face with a well rouged mouth and plucked and pencilled eyebrows , a woman dressed in a dark crimson gown , of the kind which some years before would have been described in fashionable circles as ‘ tea gowns ’ . |
| 26 | Her paternal family is opposed to the sect and some years before these events Miss T. had been reunited with her paternal grandmother and her father and for the past two years she had been living in circumstances which would not be approved by the sect . |
| 27 | It was some years before they were replaced and the legend on the present bridge at the airport tells the story ; Built 1885 . |
| 28 | It was some years before I actually tried to ride it , and that was all because of the kindness of Martin from Sunderland . |
| 29 | Some years before lie had resigned from the forces for their sakes and was personnel manager of an oil refinery in Perth . |
| 30 | It would be some years before electronics could become the final authority . |