Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | This catalogue raisonné has been keenly awaited for several years ; work began before the artist 's death in 1988 , aged eighty-six . |
| 2 | The castle had not been properly maintained for many years and after the auction it was allowed to crumble . |
| 3 | Now you ca n't possibly test a medicine on ten thousand people before you start to sell it , so that sort of risk , as rare a risk as that , will only be picked up when the medicine has actually been in use and on the market and been properly prescribed for some years , and what we are doing now , and what is particularly interesting , is to start to use computers to pick up these adverse reactions so that we know much more quickly in future if a medicine is doing any harm and we can either stop prescribing it for the people who are going to suffer from it , and that 's the most likely thing , or else take it off the market altogether if it 's if we do n't if we ca n't pick out the people who might be at risk . |
| 4 | More specific economic policies , which have been widely discussed in recent years , fit within this tendency towards an autocratic state . |
| 5 | Just such a programme has been successfully undertaken over many years by the Scottish Heatwise programme whose funding has never , alas , matched its innovation and enterprise . |
| 6 | Aden was at that time an RAF command , in which the operational policy of air control had been successfully applied for some years . |
| 7 | The ETC has been successfully established for several years and is very well equipped to provide all travel needs at the most competitive prices . |
| 8 | Instead , it appears to have been wholly ignored for 60 years until it was mentioned briefly by Gauze ( 1934 ) in his book The Struggle for Existence . |
| 9 | Events among the Danes are little known in these years . |
| 10 | The research should contribute both to psychological knowledge , by identifying the structure and content of teenagers ' knowledge of road use and how this knowledge changes as a function of experience ; to the practical business of accident prevention , by identifying what kinds of interventions are most needed in pre-driving years and when these interventions are most likely to be effective . |
| 11 | Yet this is becoming increasingly difficult as the numbers of new council houses being built have been greatly reduced in recent years , while many have been sold off by Conservative councils . |
| 12 | Within the National Parks , all land use surveys have shown how their landscapes have been much altered in recent years by the advance of agriculture and forestry ( Leonard , 1980 ) although as Table 8.2 shows , both National Parks and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty ( AONBs ) still contain very few urban areas ( Anderson , 1980 ) . |
| 13 | Key words have been much used in recent years in the retrieval of information . |
| 14 | Spitak was originally meant to have been entirely rebuilt within two years . |
| 15 | The success was based on good utilisation of staff and equipment , particularly during periods that have been seasonally affected in previous years . |
| 16 | In an editorial on 2 November 1985 , headlined ‘ Unfinished Business ’ , it asked ‘ whether the structures and institutions of British life have been so shaken by six years of Mrs Thatcher that they can no longer fall back into their old ways — or whether more shaking is needed ? ’ |
| 17 | Here in the UK , we have to clean up the image of our Rottweilers , which has been so tarnished in recent years . |
| 18 | This rediscovery has come through historical exhibitions held recently at New York 's DIA Center for the Arts ( 1988–89 ) , Claude Berri 's RENN Espace d'Art Contemporain in Paris ( 1991–92 ) and at the Hallen für Neue Kunst , Schaffhausen , where Ryman 's art has been prominently featured for several years and a fresh installation opens shortly ( 2 May-31 October ) . |
| 19 | Skil , like several other traditional power tool manufacturers , has realised that the outdoor market has been largely untapped in recent years . |
| 20 | This subsector is recognized as another growing one and it has been further differentiated in recent years by the recognition of a specifically educational , volume travel market . |
| 21 | As these books are supposed to be read by adults to children , I do n't think it matters that some of the jokes are probably lost on four year olds . |
| 22 | English hill forts and medieval towns have been extensively excavated in recent years , and a new dimension has been added to our knowledge of them ; in this the Biddles have been the incomparable pioneers in their excavations at Winchester — but many other cities have made a major contribution , including York and Lincoln and Oxford . |
| 23 | Indeed the relationship between landscape and the arts has been extensively explored in recent years , and Olwig ( 1984 ) Pocock ( 1981 ) and Relph ( 1981 ) have shown how many of our values are derived from such sources , notably humanism and literature . |
| 24 | The aura of compulsion in the public child care services has been extensively analysed in recent years . |
| 25 | The problem has , in fact , been extensively argued during recent years . |
| 26 | Launched by Mayer and Timms and continued by , among others , Sainsbury and his colleagues at the University of Sheffield , this new approach to the evaluation of social work has revealed previously uncharted areas of knowledge , and has been extensively reviewed in recent years ( Sainsbury , 1980 ; Craig , 1981 ; Rees and Wallace , 1982 ; Fisher , 1983 ) . |
| 27 | The interwar debate over economic policy has , of course , been extensively researched in recent years , and Keynes 's contributions are well documented . |
| 28 | Although the local authority was sympathetic to her problem , the sum of money available to it for discretionary grants had been severely cut in recent years , so it could not see its way to helping her further . |
| 29 | When I approached the Newcastle local education authority about one of the constituents to whom I have referred , I was told that the city council 's budget for discretionary awards had been severely cut in recent years . |
| 30 | They are mainly aimed at 14–25 year olds but all of those listed here are also available to older people . |