Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [det] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remaining stocks ( in electrical equipment , mostly ) are being burned , but traces will remain for many years . |
| 2 | They can remain for many years in cold and hostile environments while retaining their toxicity , and they have a tendency to remain in living organisms . |
| 3 | I have not met many Scottish people who wish to be left exposed to the nuclear blackmail that could come from the huge nuclear arsenal which will remain for many years on the continent and in Russia . |
| 4 | The following aspects of policy are insufficiently studied and will remain for some years central preoccupations of the Group : |
| 5 | The telephone rang while I was busy explaining to Tony Crosland that I could not accept a further term of office at the Housing Corporation , since I had been appointed to the Mastership of University College , Oxford , but I had agreed to a request that I should at least stay for another year to see someone else in . |
| 6 | It can persist for many years . |
| 7 | We found that chronic constipation in young children can persist for many years . |
| 8 | Climbing expeditions into the peaks themselves have also left behind piles of rubbish , and Cullen ( 1986 ) points out that the problem is compounded by the fact that in such a high Alpine environment decomposition rates are very slow so that discarded materials may persist for several years if not decades . |
| 9 | The solution is to invest money which you wo n't need for some years , say five or more . |
| 10 | Ev well I do n't know about this year mind but every Christmas I worked there she never paid us double time for anything over Christmas , she was always bought us a present . |
| 11 | Public health officials did all in their power to stop the 1964 pie going ahead ; there was a typhoid epidemic in Aberdeen in the 1960 's and it was found that the last serious epidemic before that had been in Denby Dale in the 1930's , and the infection can linger for many years . |
| 12 | Clive Exon who adapted Poirot for television and also scripted the current play believes Christie 's work will survive for many years to come . |
| 13 | How do you feel about this year 's showing ? ( a ) Speaker : There were forty-seven competing , so given our limited experience of the event I think we did quite well . |
| 14 | A few unsprayed crops might survive providing most are sprayed but if none was sprayed , widespread damage would ensure in some years . |
| 15 | It 's a very big cash generator for the very high cover price and that should benefit from this year 's Olympics . |
| 16 | This argument will run for some years . |
| 17 | This is another area where liability may not emerge for several years , as in the case of industrial disease . |
| 18 | I do know about actresses such as Patrice Charbonneau , who did n't work for several years after starring in the lesbian love story Desert Hearts . |
| 19 | The Otago CA report for that year had to report that the early high hopes for Otago cricket were now being ‘ affected by the Great War , and the necessity for all men to play the greater game for the Empire ’ . |
| 20 | In theory , most essential oils ( except orange , lemon , grapefruit and lime ) will keep for several years . |
| 21 | Well I think that it must be recognised that the current state of demand and supply is going to make it very difficult for most applicants , and we would be concerned to advise them not to panic unduly as a result of that , and to make their choices on the sort of rational criteria that would apply in any year . |
| 22 | ‘ What will happen in many years to come if the prince and princess should choose to divorce the future only knows . ’ |
| 23 | Overall , by next April — when nearly 1 million people will gain from this year 's real increase , either directly through income support or through increased entitlement to housing or community charge benefit — we shall in three years have steered an extra one third of a billion pounds in real extra benefit to less well-off pensioners , in a way which I believe the whole House will welcome and support . |
| 24 | He is trying to produce a generation which will eventually stay outside all year round . |
| 25 | I think the same players and coaches should go on this year 's European tour . |
| 26 | Clearly the tiny outpost was awaiting demolition , but maybe that would n't come for many years . |
| 27 | The world does not notice for another year . |
| 28 | There is Jonas to support also , and in the way of nature he will live for many years . |
| 29 | But , even when people have had spells of very bad illness , they may still live for many years and there will be time for them to make good plans for their children . |
| 30 | These organisms can live for many years inside the body causing intense itching and other symptoms , including eventual blindness . |