Example sentences of "of years of " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the Historic Royal Palaces were given ‘ agency ’ status on 1 October to remedy the ills of years of committee-style management and neglect . |
| 2 | The tropical rainforests are the richest source of life on earth , the result of millions of years of evolution . |
| 3 | Unless we do , in the short space of one human lifetime , we will have undone millions of years of evolution . |
| 4 | For Tibetan freedom and for thousands of years of long life for His Holiness the Dalai Lama — and because the Chinese should leave Tibet . |
| 5 | In her manifesto , prime mover Jill Greenhalgh wrote : ‘ There 's something new and vital and female that is lying latent and untapped , trapped under thousands of years of patriarchal art , and you just ca n't quite grasp it . ’ |
| 6 | The overstretch of the regular army did not become a major political issue during the last of years of the Conservative Government ( then under Douglas Home , who succeeded Macmillan in October 1963 ) : it was a legacy left to Labour when they came to power in October 1964 . |
| 7 | It is hardly surprising that it is a poor fit for animals removed from the present by hundreds of millions of years of evolution . |
| 8 | Security Pacific and Wells would have got round that by letting Wells 's 59-year-old chairman , Carl Reichardt , head the merged bank for a couple of years of fierce cost-cutting , a Reichardt trademark , before handing over to Security Pacific 's chief executive , Robert Smith , who is four years younger . |
| 9 | A controversial statement born out of years of experience with the shorter , smaller Dutch Texel by its most well known UK devotee , Robin Slade . |
| 10 | The functioning of these enzymes depends on their amino acid sequence , and that in turn depends on base sequence in DNA , which is the result of many millions of years of natural selection . |
| 11 | This refusal to accept any input as random is the outcome of millions of years of evolution . ’ |
| 12 | GARY Wolstenholme no doubt arrived at Augusta with a set of expectations borne of years of reading about the Masters , watching the final stages on television and latterly imagining what it will be like , for he is playing in the US Masters as an automatic invitee after winning the 1991 Amateur Championship . |
| 13 | RETIREMENT to the West Country is often the result of years of holidaying there . |
| 14 | Edward Pilkington writing in the Guardian later commented , ‘ What at first glance appears to be no more than a simple case of human error becomes , at closer examination , as much a story about bungling management and an inadequate safety system born of years of cuts . |
| 15 | And without being alarmist , most of us would like to know more about the effect of years of chemical bombardment on our bodies . |
| 16 | ‘ You know , I do n't think it was an accident that , within a couple of years of sorting myself out , I met David . |
| 17 | This comes as no surprise to the house-owner , and is only the culmination of years of dissatisfaction with the building industry . |
| 18 | Waimea demands maturity , experience , the wisdom of years of watching and waiting . |
| 19 | The political and social infrastructure for the perpetration of overtly racist acts goes back hundreds of years of course ; but events immediately preceding the sixties laid the foundations for those excesses by the way ‘ race ’ became politicised . |
| 20 | The effects of forty years of apartheid ideology and hundreds of years of racial discrimination on South African society have been reflected and reproduced in its education system . |
| 21 | Consider three variables : age last birthday , number of years of full-time education and favourableness towards nuclear defence . |
| 22 | What would you expect to happen to the magnitude of the effect once you had controlled for number of years of full-time education ? |
| 23 | The convention of marking the beginning of years of grace by the Nativity ( or Christmas Day ) has a long history . |
| 24 | It is called Minitel and the French government had already ordered 600 000 of the things for a couple of years of an experimental run . |
| 25 | So , taking account of the polonium , local people relying mainly on local milk , meat and vegetables could expect doses over a period of a couple of years of about 4 to 15 rems ; more incidentally , than people at Hiroshima within 2 km of the bomb . |
| 26 | But to the ethologist , every species is fascinating — the end-point of millions of years of complex evolutionary pressures . |
| 27 | Humanity will insist that individuals must accept their personal obligations by acknowledging that they do have within them impulses and appetites which are a legacy from millions of years of ruthless evolution , and that the time has come when they must introduce into their lives the concept of a high standard of self-discipline to control those impulses and appetites . |
| 28 | Humanity will insist that individuals must accept their personal obligations by acknowledging that they do have within them impulses and appetites which are a legacy from millions of years of ruthless evolution , and that the time has come when they must introduce into their lives the concept of a high standard of self discipline to control those impulses and appetites . |
| 29 | The first source of ‘ goodness ’ is to be found in the millions of years of evolution up to the time of the ‘ Dawn of Civilisation ’ . |
| 30 | This is established beyond doubt , as a result of years of scientific study . |