Example sentences of "[art] number [prep] years [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The measure of life events used was one which had been developed by Brown over a number of years and represents a major methodological improvement over previous approaches . |
| 2 | He had been landlord of the village inn for a number of years and had developed the publicans ' inborn instinct for recognising potential trouble . |
| 3 | He was chairman of the Methodist College Board of Governors for a number of years and died in 1938 . |
| 4 | John and his partner Joseph Cooper ran the mill for a number of years and prospered , but the Coopers ' dependence on export was their ultimate downfall , as trade fluctuated during the French wars . |
| 5 | The Bonn family financed the Bureau for a number of years and enabled it to recruit a small staff which laid the foundations for the development of the organisation into what it is to-day . |
| 6 | The whole House will want to congratulate the British miners on doing everything that has been asked of them over a number of years and achieving that massive increase in productivity . |
| 7 | The progression and results of this study ( which took a number of years and involved the House of Lords Record Office , the British Library , the Public Record Office and the College of Arms , as well as the Bridport manuscript books and medieval wills and testaments ) have been presented not only to show that reference books can be wrong , but that the wealth of material available to the local historian can be utilized to very positive effect over an extremely narrow range as over a wide one . |
| 8 | There is no virtue in several injections of insulin if the patient is well controlled on a single injection each day , but this state of affairs is unlikely to be the case in a patient who has had diabetes for a number of years and has little residual β-cell function . |
| 9 | To place a detailed analysis in context it is necessary to look at trends in key figures over a number of years and to make comparisons with other firms in the same industry . |