Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adj] for [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later , it was to take on consultative functions ; in practice , most observers expected it to act as a clearing house for mutual trade between its members , which was expected to remain important for some years , and to co-ordinate east European policy toward the European Communities ( EC ) . |
| 2 | Labour knows , and the long faces around the hon. Gentleman confirm , that the council tax is a winner and that we have found in three months the solution that has eluded Labour for three years . |
| 3 | At a site by the Royal Hotel that has remained undeveloped for 40 years , sycamore ( Acer pseudo platanus ) is beginning to appear above a dense patch of buddleia ; the sycamore is probably the natural successor to buddleia in this city . |
| 4 | It therefore follows , in our judgment , that although this has gone unnoticed for 119 years , the jurisdiction of the judges as visitors , in so far as it relates to questions as to the fitness of persons to become or remain barristers , is a jurisdiction which in 1873 was vested in the judges of the three common law courts , sitting elsewhere than in court or chambers , when acting as judges , in pursuance of custom . |
| 5 | The new bridge , designed by W.H. Barlow , was of wrought-iron lattice girder construction , like the old , but proper scientific calculations were made this time to allow for lateral wind pressure — the first time scientific studies of such stresses were made — and the new Tay Bridge , still the longest railway bridge in Britain at just over 2 miles , has stood solid for 100 years , linking Dundee with Fife . |
| 6 | In their farm kitchens and workshops you could be forgiven for thinking that time has stood still for 150 years . |
| 7 | A DARLINGTON factory which has stood empty for three years is close to being sold . |
| 8 | The little man had appeared shocked at the very idea that Alfred might be suspected of killing his brother yet he had gone on , with a certain relish , to provide a convincing motive — if a motive which has lain dormant for thirty years is still convincing . |
| 9 | St Mary 's was destined to lie idle for some years until the foundation of the Chalford Stick Company in 1903 . |
| 10 | The school occupied Trench Hall , a stately home which , having stood vacant for seven years , showed all the obvious signs of neglect . |
| 11 | Having stood empty for many years , 1987/88 saw the start of considerable renovations and rebuilding . |
| 12 | Mr Andrews cited the example of an A&E nurse who had done suturing for many years . |
| 13 | Already drawn to poetic vision and utterance , Leonard discovered this world for himself , cutting the virgin edges of the books which his father had left uncut for 40-plus years . |
| 14 | Too run-down and curiously situated to appeal to most families , it had stood empty for several years before Frankie 's parents made it their home . |
| 15 | In 1902 , after the Hall had stood empty for some years , Lord Halifax lent it to a small community of Church of England Benedictines under Abbot Aelred Carlyle , the subject of a book Abbot Extraordinary . |
| 16 | Turkey has an excuse for its ignorance : the objects , it says , were looted from tombs where they had lain undisturbed for 2,500 years . |
| 17 | Within a few months , seeds — which had lain dormant for many years — germinated . |
| 18 | On June 9 Mount Pinatubo , a 1,460-metre volcano which had lain dormant for 600 years , began to erupt . |
| 19 | They had lain dormant for some years after she had left the cottage , but he knew now they had simply been growing in the warm darkness of his being where love bred … |
| 20 | Gastric emptying tests with radiolabelled meals and gamma camera imaging have proved popular for many years in clinical research and physiological studies . |
| 21 | Thehealthy twins have remained healthy for 21.4 years ( range 8–40 ) after the diagnosis of the matching twins who had ulcerative colitis and for 14.9 years ( range 7–31 ) in the twins discordant with those who had Crohn 's disease . |
| 22 | Over the years the weather and man have been responsible for destroying parts of the forested areas and , although some re-afforestation has taken place , large areas have remained depleted for many years . |
| 23 | I 'm not surprised she 's gone short for four years . |
| 24 | rightly , have stood condemned for 300 years for having committed the atrocity . |