Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [det] year " in BNC.
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| 31 | The latter has for many years been the preference of the majority of established practitioners : according to a recent Law Society survey , almost 75 per cent of solicitors in practice are equity partners in a firm . |
| 32 | The norm for the duration of commercial leases has for many years been twenty-five years . |
| 33 | Margaret Shepherd , whose cafe in Queen Street has for many years been popular with parties of elderly people , said many handicapped groups had cancelled this year because they could no longer walk straight from the cafe to the seafront . |
| 34 | ‘ As a biologist , my main interest has for some years been human genetics , the study of the way in which various characteristics are passed from parent to offspring . |
| 35 | The press has for some years played up the problems of UK financial reporting and has exaggerated the extent to which those problems derived from weak enforcement of standards rather than defects in the standards themselves . |
| 36 | The outcome of these changes is that the drug bill is rising faster than it has for some years and above the rate of inflation . |
| 37 | University College London has for some years been offering a one-year postgraduate diploma course in librarianship to experienced graduate teachers . " |
| 38 | It is in its work on health and healing , the Board of Social Responsibility has for some years now been concerned with the provision of training conferences for ministers and others involved in this aspect of the church 's commission . |
| 39 | The use of a written procedure was pioneered in the House of Lords where each party has for some years been required to lodge a ‘ Case ’ with the court which is very similar to the skeleton arguments more recently introduced in the Court of Appeal . |
| 40 | This has led to a crisis of legitimacy for the system : not only for the prisons ( whose claim to be providing effective rehabilitation was always shaky in many eyes ) but equally for other components of the penal system , notably the probation service which has for some years now been uncertain about what its proper rationale and direction should be . |
| 41 | To this end , this association has for some years now made the data sheet compendium — written originally for doctors and pharmacists — available to public libraries and , on request , to individual members of the public . |
| 42 | Europe now produces more food than she needs and has for some years been supporting a section of industry that provides employment for less than 1% of our National workforce ; good for British agriculture , but how much better if the support had gone to those industries that took up a greater proportion of the work force , i.e. the engineers with 10% . |
| 43 | Sally Harrower , Issue Hall , has for some years entered the Edinburgh to St Andrews cycle ride in aid of Lepra . |
| 44 | It has for some years been established beyond doubt that Elisabeth used her long period as custodian of her brother 's works and papers ( during which time she wrote and rewrote his biography , as well as overseeing the editing of his works ) to misrepresent important aspects of his life and thought and , in extreme cases , to falsify letters and unpublished writings . |
| 45 | Suppose manufacturer A has for some years produced a razor which will not normally cut the user unless it is slid sideways across the skin . |
| 46 | What hope there is resides primarily in the same section of the news-stands as it has for several years — the ‘ serious ’ and ‘ specialist ’ music press . |
| 47 | But one of these , the Manas ( ‘ by far the most important wildlife reserve in the Indian subcontinent ’ — IUCN Pig and Peccaries Specialist Group ) , has for several years been in the hands of armed rebels . |
| 48 | ‘ And the TCCB 's directive for pitches has for several years now been that they must start dry . ’ |
| 49 | So if this stands for this year 's output at a hundred percent fifty percent of it has to be added on to give next year 's . |
| 50 | He appears to have got what he wanted and will remain at the Ballycastle Road Showgrounds for another year at least . |
| 51 | The breeder programme also lives for another year . |
| 52 | For example one notices over many years of you know having teaching I must have taught hundreds now in different class groups , ca n't help noticing that although you 're the same , subject is the same , the syllabus is the same , the reading list is the same , the room is the same , the time of day may be the same , but the groups are completely different . |
| 53 | As distinct from the four week experience of general practice which all of our final year students receive ( with a final objective structured clinical examination ( OSCE ) in general practice ) this university department of general practice has over many years provided generic clinical teaching for the department of medicine . |
| 54 | From Bungle to Barrel Roll ( Makin Communications , 53 mins , colour , £9.99 ) looks at this year 's PFA International Air Rally , held at Wroughton . |
| 55 | Paperback preview 1993 Sarah Broadbent looks at this year 's most promising titles — the giants , the high-flyers , the major titles and the ones to watch , the literary titles , fiction and non-fiction . |
| 56 | Croydon YHA Group have been organising Wheelchair Rambles for many years . |
| 57 | Indeed , this Germany , who lost in Brazil ( amidst riotous crowd behaviour ) , Spain , Argentina and Holland among those already sure to be involved and others such as Russia ( in its new form ) and Austria expected to be among them , it ranks alongside this year 's World Group quarter final line-up for depth and quality . |
| 58 | The essential point to note is that broad money recorded increases significantly above their target limits in most years . |
| 59 | It can also be increased by layering , from soft cuttings or division in early spring , and grows for many years . |
| 60 | Club and pub doormen would have to carry registration cards and face a vetting procedure if the project takes off this year . |