Example sentences of "years [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Founding Fathers declared that an ‘ enumeration ’ should take place every ten years so that members of the House of Representatives can be fairly apportioned among the states . |
| 2 | Mirror Group has agreed to use up to £300 million of its profits over the next 10 to 20 years so that the pension fund , plundered by Mr Robert Maxwell , will be able to meet all its liabilities . |
| 3 | This inspection should then be repeated every ten years so that remedial treatment can be undertaken at an early stage if rotting is detected . |
| 4 | Unlike the Kerry , the Dexter is an increasingly popular breed ; it has been well promoted by its breed society in recent years so that it now hardly qualifies as a rare breed . |
| 5 | In northeastern China , Leeming ( 1985 ) reports that in the vicinity of the Great Wall in Shaanxi Province the desert margin has advanced markedly in the last 150 years so that sand now extends 70 km south of the Great Wall , and in the nearby Yulin area grazing land and arable fields have been engulfed . |
| 6 | Actual allocations to regions would gradually be adjusted over several years so that they moved towards the target allocations . |
| 7 | Consequently , this year 's lead pollution will add to that of all previous years so that its environmental presence increases all the time . |
| 8 | He went on ‘ improving ’ this poem over a long period of years so that the text usually printed shows many alterations from the original . |
| 9 | The banking and finance sector has grown more than 20 times in real terms over the past 30 years so that it now accounts for almost 20% of GDP , compared with 5% in 1960 . |
| 10 | Air traffic has doubled in the last 10 years so that Singapore is now served by 57 airlines , linking it to 110 cities in 54 countries . |
| 11 | Although many of the leading manufacturers , including SmithKline Beecham , have changed the formula of their drinks in the last few years so that they contain less sugar , dentists say they 're still getting far too many cases of two , three and four-year-olds with decaying milk teeth . |
| 12 | This trend continued in succeeding years so that during the three-quarters of a century between the first ( 1719 ) and the fifth ( 1795 ) official censuses , the Russian population of Siberia increased by almost two and a half times , from 169,000 adult males to 412,000 , at a time when the population of the empire as a whole less than doubled . |
| 13 | The same table also shows that the proportion of women qualifying for unemployment benefit increased over the years so that it surpassed that of men . |
| 14 | Elected vice-provost in 1929 , he was a unanimous choice as provost in 1933 ; and such was the hold he established over the college that the fellows prolonged his tenure as provost for two years so that he retired in 1954 . |
| 15 | The company has been completely transformed in the last few years so that its environmental service now represents more than 80 per cent of its turnover . |
| 16 | They have frozen child benefit for three years so that mothers and families are nearly £1 billion worse off than they would otherwise have been . |
| 17 | Possible explanations for a difference between older and younger women are that the operation has a delayed effect , that the operative technique has changed over the years so that it is less likely to affect bowel function , or that gynaecologists are doing fewer operations on women with pelvic pain of intestinal origin . |
| 18 | National " net " wastage figures have been declining in recent years so that although learner intakes have declined from 30,000 to 18,000 between 1981 – 87 , the total qualified workforce increased from 212,000 to 239,000 ( Grocott 1989 ) . |
| 19 | well you know , John Smith laid out his budget for the next , study for the , to cover the next two years and there , I mean there 's no intention to , to change it in the foreseeable future , I mean they 've laid it out for two years so that the basic rate stays the same , that the personal allowances are being increased so that this will take a lot of lower paid people out of tax and that coupled with the child benefit will make everybody up to about twenty two thousand a year better off , and then from there they 'll be a , a , a range of people who to it wo n't make much difference |
| 20 | It was three years later that I did finally audition , at seventeen . |
| 21 | But it was only four years later that he became truly animated . |
| 22 | It was not until a few years later that I think his talent really started to manifest itself because you could n't quite think where it was going . |
| 23 | It was many years later that my foreboding dream came true . |
| 24 | It was only thirteen years later that the most famous evangelist , Dwight L. Moody , launched his first revival campaign which reached its peak in 1875 . |
| 25 | It was only some years later that Jacques learned of the Board 's initiatives and that it had failed because members of the county council had been deeply suspicious of the radicalism associated with liberal adult education in the industrial areas of the county . |
| 26 | When my cousin , who was to be in the locality ( one did not ask why at that time , and it was only after we were both freed of our vows of secrecy more than thirty years later that he told me he had been at Bletchley Park itself ) suggested coming to visit me , Mrs Sugden had no doubt but that this was my ‘ gentleman friend ’ . |
| 27 | It did , however , come to light some seven years later that a Dr Bayley , a professor at Oxford , had been approached by one of Dudley 's servants shortly before Amy 's death . |
| 28 | But it was not until ten years later that Jack discovered she was his mother . |
| 29 | She gave birth in 1970 to a boy whom she named Caleb James , but it was not until five years later that she said Nicholson was the father . |
| 30 | Lionel Luyt told me that it was only when he reached Europe a few years later that he realized how far ahead of his South African contemporaries John had been , doing things which he must have invented for himself because he had not had the chance to see them put into practice by others . |