Example sentences of "[prep] years and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trade winds have been moving the dunes south-west for thousands of years and show no sign of stopping , but unless they do , much of West Africa will be engulfed . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He has never stayed in any one place longer than a couple of years and prides himself on knowing when to go . |
| 4 | So use the opportunity , get a return , make them take a good look at you and then you know you 're alright and can go on for another couple of years and make them look at you again . |
| 5 | He was chairman of the Methodist College Board of Governors for a number of years and died in 1938 . |
| 6 | A look at this shy and distinctive creature which has lived in Britain for thousands of years and featured in many favourite stories but is rarely seen in its natural habitat . |
| 7 | He had been landlord of the village inn for a number of years and had developed the publicans ' inborn instinct for recognising potential trouble . |
| 8 | This had been there for thousands of years and had defeated the British Raj 's efforts to move it . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She had visited us many times over a nu number of years and said it was our turn to visit her and we just laughed . |
| 11 | Unisoft Inc , the London and New York-based Unix house that has been quietly transforming itself into a system integrator and bespoke application developer has broken its near silence of the last couple of years and come out with what it calls a ‘ highly portable ’ version of Unix V.4 — UniPlus+ SVR4/MIPS . |
| 12 | Now before we talk a little bit about that , I 'll j can I just take you back erm a couple of years and ask you er what your memories are of the general strike ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Hence , it is usual to calculate the q's for the current year or a period of years and apply these to what becomes a hypothetical cohort ‘ followed ’ through a current or period life table . |
| 15 | We shall have to do three old ones from the last couple of years and get the costumes and sets from Vienna as usual . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Her dearest wish was to live another couple of years and see Neil Kinnock as prime minister . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Originally from Stockport , Cheshire , worked as an Outward Bound instructor in Devon for a couple of years and liked the county so much he decided to stay . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ Primary ’ rainforest is an area that has n't been disturbed for hundreds of years and has reached a state of mature complexity ; it is also known as virgin forest . |
| 22 | TAZ Bey 's theory of the ‘ temporary autonomous zone ’ has been floating around on the margins of Stateside cybertippy culture for a couple of years and has now drifted over here . |
| 23 | In fact , I was only going to stay a couple of years and move on , but … but I met you and I knew right from the beginning what was going to happen to me ; and it 's grown over these months during our supposedly accidental meetings here . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Not far behind them sat David Thomas and his wife , a jeweller who had looked after the Spencer family for years and sold Diana several pieces : but he was still ‘ just a humble jeweller ’ , and was expecting to be tucked away behind a pillar at the back . |
| 26 | The windows had not been opened for years and had forgotten how it went . |
| 27 | It was like discovering an old trick , something he had n't done for years and had thought was dead — unnerving but not entirely unpleasurable . |
| 28 | The old lady had been deaf for years and had what she called a ‘ thing-gummyjig ’ on her telephone receiver which was intended to help her hear her callers more clearly . |
| 29 | ‘ I found as the charred remains came to light that one of their employees , who had left the firm last year , had been embezzling them for years and had set fire to the premises so that no trace could be found of his dirty work . |
| 30 | ‘ Centre 42 had the place for years and had done fuck-all with it ’ , observes Miles . |