Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [prep] [det] year [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been empty for several years and was dirty , damp and severely vandalised . |
| 2 | Its importance as a sire had been obvious for many years as its progeny had proved their worth in the show ring and at stud . |
| 3 | They had been married for more years than she and Rob had lived . |
| 4 | The finished roof will now be weatherproof for many years and require no maintenance . |
| 5 | Data base systems have been available for many years and were developed to make efficient use of secondary storage devices in large computer installations . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 9.18–26 ; Luke 8.40–56 ) he heals a woman who has been unclean for many years because of a flow of blood . |
| 8 | Then Jimmy said well you know she 's been dead for many years and er she says , oh that 's right . |
| 9 | The house and gallery date from 1640 , though the house was derelict for many years and restored in 1920 . |
| 10 | Any chance of the former had been negated by Britain 's failure to topple Nasser at Suez ; and the latter was unlikely for some years because the aircraft did not , as yet , exist ; and the RAF had no real enthusiasm for providing the necessary money to buy them out of Air votes , which they quite naturally wanted to use for combat and not transport aircraft . |
| 11 | In this research , palynology was dominant for many years but subsequently enormous potential has been offered by research developed by F. Oldfield on mineral magnetic properties which are valuable because many magnetic properties are environmentally diagnostic , are preserved for long periods in many situations , and have parameters which are easy to measure . |