Example sentences of "years be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Sandinistas recognise that perestroika will bring changes in their relationship with Moscow , which has in recent years been worth around £625m annually , according to European diplomats . |
| 2 | But one of these , the Manas ( ‘ by far the most important wildlife reserve in the Indian subcontinent ’ — IUCN Pig and Peccaries Specialist Group ) , has for several years been in the hands of armed rebels . |
| 3 | In the light of the foregoing , psychiatry itself is increasingly being forced to admit that the firm categories of psychosis with which it has tried to work for many years are of limited value . |
| 4 | To have a paper laying out clearly what our priorities over the next few years are to be would help to provide the firm direction that an organisation like ours needs to have . |
| 5 | The hutted wards , built more than 40 years ago with a life expectancy of 10 years are to be demolished . |
| 6 | It is interesting to note however that while Klemperer 's speeds thirty years are on far more deliberate , the rawness of Weill 's idiom remains intact . |
| 7 | At 29 , the head Raider does not appear to accept that his best years are behind him , bad news perhaps for Jonathan Davies , for whom the press conference provided a first glimpse of a man whose reputation travels before him . |
| 8 | NEXT , which a year ago reported one of the biggest losses ever by a British retailer , yesterday announced a return to dividends and provided the hardest evidence yet that the troubles of recent years are behind it . |
| 9 | The teenage years are among the most critical in regard to the relationship between catechesis and religious education . |
| 10 | The images I 've been doing over the past few years are like great sculptures , the weather has been getting to them and they are crumbling , their faces have cracks in them . |
| 11 | The images I 've been doing over the past few years are like great sculptures , the weather has been getting to them and they are crumbling , their faces have cracks in them . |
| 12 | Some otherwise generous companies offer even senior directors no more than three months ' notice ; at the other end of the scale , notice periods of three or even five years are by no means rare . |
| 13 | It 's 1926 , and Harlem 's wonder years are in full swing . |
| 14 | The land there is now nearly exhausted , and I would suggest that building rates in future years are in fact likely to decrease from what were abnormally high figures in the in the past ten year period . |
| 15 | When the ten years were over the Romans tried to reimpose tribute on the Franks , but the latter killed the tax collectors . |
| 16 | Its fallow years were between 1607 and 1858 , when the second history of Lourdes began , with the eighteen appearances of the Virgin Mary there in a grotto beside the river to a miller 's daughter , Bernadette Soubirous , which turned the town quite rapidly into the greatest pilgrimage centre of Roman Catholicism . |
| 17 | As seen from table VI , the recall rates at five years were between 74% and 84% , at seven years between 51% and 64% , and at 10 years between 29% and 35% . |
| 18 | The new tenants moved into the house at once , and the arrival soon afterwards of their servant Peggy Marsh and young Basil Montagu was final confirmation that the Racedown years were at an end . |
| 19 | Prison sentences of between two and five years were on Feb. 25 imposed on 10 dissidents involved in the 1989 pro-democracy movement . |
| 20 | The Japanese invasion brought an end to this initial stage of Holy Cross ; the war years were to be a severe testing of the training given . |
| 21 | If these post-war years were to be so crucial to the formation of the post-war employment structure , economic dislocation provided an atmosphere in which self-preservation was an understandable objective . |
| 22 | Local housing programmes drawn up by an intercommunal co-operation body and covering at least five years were to be established in the 13 cities with more than 350,000 inhabitants . |
| 23 | This gift was subject to the capital transfer tax , not inheritance tax , provisions , and by dint of the passage of more than 10 years is outside any tax charge . |
| 24 | Their best chance therefore of becoming familiar with quoted speech in their preschool years is through hearing dialogue in stories read aloud . |
| 25 | I look back on my time there with a lot of affection , but I feel that if a rock writer is doing his job properly , three years is about it . ’ |
| 26 | As with patterns of ownership , the impression of contents and media usage over the years is of an increasingly interlocking system , the user 's version of conglomeration . |
| 27 | The impression conveyed by Wilfrid 's career in these years is of a Church still very dependent in the pursuit of its own interests , certainly in territories outside Canterbury 's sphere of influence , on the unpredictable inclination of the princes with whom it had to deal . |
| 28 | Forecasting employment land requirements over a period of fifteen years is of course a difficult exercise at any time . |
| 29 | At Angle in Pembrokeshire the first new slipway and boathouse to be built for 31 years is to be constructed . |
| 30 | A gap of 10 to 12 years is to be expected . |