Example sentences of "year but [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The work is being phased over a number of years but already some of the refurbishment has been completed . |
| 2 | Ernst and Young has cut its annual graduate recruitment by 110 to 540 over the last two years but generally the big firms , some with workforces of over 7,000 , have been slow to react to the downturn . |
| 3 | Erm I 've played with Clyde Ladies for about five years but previously I played with Stewarton . |
| 4 | The Socialist Party had not only suffered its worst election defeat in 25 years but also given every appearance of being in the process of disintegration . |
| 5 | And they were reacting not only against the art of the past fifty years but also against the techniques and traditions of vision that had shaped Western painting since the scientific discoveries of the early Renaissance . |
| 6 | Sympathy for the Soviet Union was a major advantage to the Labour Party during the campaign , because there had been widespread admiration of the achievements of the Red Army , not only in maintaining a successful resistance for almost four years but also in crowning that resistance with the capture of Berlin in spring 1945 . |
| 7 | She had put her hair up so as to look older than her sixteen years but even so she straightened her music and her shoulders with such self-consciousness that the maturity of her voice came as a shock to him just as it always did . |
| 8 | The original scope of work had been severely reduced , limiting the unit 's safe operation to only five years but even this reduced scope was progressing painfully slowly . |
| 9 | Dean Patterson says the use of solar energy is important to all people around the world … and he says we will say electric cars on the road within five years but even with the sun shining … they 're are breakdowns … punctures and problems … a driver says they 've had a stone fly up and brake the chain but they 'll get going again |
| 10 | And then if you do the sums there 's no difficulty whatsoever in imagining the evolution of a specific optimal protein , one amino acid at a time , not in millions of years but even in thousands of years — it 's not a serious mathematical problem . |
| 11 | For example if you had the London Mozart players here as we frequently did and frequently played to full houses , then even with a hundred percent house there was a subsidy required of something like seven or eight pounds per seat , in order to meet the cost of presenting that particular concert and we 've done it for years but sadly when we had to make cuts that was one of things the board decided they had to cut up they had to save money somehow . |
| 12 | The Conservative strategy which emerged after the Great War , tentatively in the coalition years but powerfully under Baldwin , was a blend of the basic Salisbury recipe with added ‘ Manchester North-West ’ . |
| 13 | Alcoholism may progress quickly over a few years but commonly progresses over twenty years or even more from first intoxication until terminal chronic disease . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The standard grief reaction going through the five phases of denial , anger , bargaining , depression and finally acceptance over a period of two years but sometimes with progressive insulation of emotions resulting in a sense of isolation . |
| 16 | This restoration has been an off-again-on-again project for several years but recently work has resumed on the Bearcat , which will be the only two seat example flying . |
| 17 | He had worked in the school for several years but so far neither gardai nor health board officials have contacted the school authorities about the case . |
| 18 | He was a Christian for many years but quite unable to forget that he had once been ‘ an infidel and libertine , a servant of slaves in Africa ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ We 've been doing Bona-Fido for about two years but still get some guests who do n't realise they could have brought their dogs along , ’ he said . |
| 20 | The rate of depreciation slows down significantly in the second and third years but still runs at around 20 per cent a year . |
| 21 | A few years back , my mother was staying with us ; a lady of advancing years but still a very keen angler . |
| 22 | International factoring has grown at a faster rate than domestic factoring over the past five years but still remains only a small fraction of domestic business . |
| 23 | Aunt Tossie , Mrs Florence Fox-Collier , was Maman 's ( Lady Forester 's ) elder and widowed sister — widowed for two years but still wearing full mourning regalia . |
| 24 | The Burns Supper was less so than in previous years but still was an excellent evening arranged by Dr A. Watson . |
| 25 | The senior partner , Mr Alan Vickers , has been with the firm for 40 years but still can not claim to be the longest-serving member of staff . |
| 26 | He 'd played with a few friends over the years but never managed to overcome the logistics of forming and fronting a band . |
| 27 | If the amount of the capital sum exceeds the amount of income available , then the settlor will be taxed in the next year and subsequent years up to the amount of income available in the next year or subsequent years but never so that the tax liabilities exceed the amount of the capital sum that was paid out directly or indirectly to the settlor . |
| 28 | It is true that employee numbers have been reduced by around an eighth over the last few years but only as a by-product of the printer 's massive £130m capital investment programme . |
| 29 | They breed from mid-May onward , hatching eight or more young in good years but only one , two or none when food is scarce . |
| 30 | Day-trippers and weekend visitors have filled the streets and riverside paths every summer for more than sixty years but only a tiny percentage are aware of the village 's remarkable gastronomic distinction , about which most communities would continually drum up a publicity fanfare . |