Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] for [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now you ca n't possibly test a medicine on ten thousand people before you start to sell it , so that sort of risk , as rare a risk as that , will only be picked up when the medicine has actually been in use and on the market and been properly prescribed for some years , and what we are doing now , and what is particularly interesting , is to start to use computers to pick up these adverse reactions so that we know much more quickly in future if a medicine is doing any harm and we can either stop prescribing it for the people who are going to suffer from it , and that 's the most likely thing , or else take it off the market altogether if it 's if we do n't if we ca n't pick out the people who might be at risk . |
| 2 | This catalogue raisonné has been keenly awaited for several years ; work began before the artist 's death in 1988 , aged eighty-six . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm sure most of the papers identified in this study will be highly cited for several years to come , ’ says Garfield . |
| 4 | All this actually amounts to , however , is the existing EMS ( once so resisted by those converts ) , after capital controls are finally gone , as long planned for next year . |
| 5 | The housing market is the worst seen for 25 years , and a 15 per cent base rate and rising mortgage rates can not help . |
| 6 | Aden was at that time an RAF command , in which the operational policy of air control had been successfully applied for some years . |
| 7 | ‘ The English way has not altered for 30 years , ’ he says . |
| 8 | So this is not intended for five years old , it actually refers to new vehicles . |
| 9 | Meetings already arranged for this year include ‘ Changes in the wind — the end of the traditional British holiday ? ’ and ‘ The retail and catering consortium ’ . |
| 10 | On Saturday they travel to Ayr — where the Fifers have not won for 10 years — knowing that victory at Somerset Park would take them up if Dunfermline beat Kilmarnock at East End Park . |
| 11 | As promised , his regime had delivered a degree of governmental stability that France had not enjoyed for many years . |
| 12 | He was conditionally discharged for two years |
| 13 | She admitted destroying property by fire and making hoax telephone calls and was conditionally discharged for one year . |
| 14 | Cunningham was conditionally discharged for one year and ordered to pay a total of £65 compensation . |
| 15 | A first flight is not expected for another year . |
| 16 | Despite living only about 10 minutes from each other , the two have not met for 50 years . |
| 17 | ‘ I have not prayed for twenty years , ’ he told Elliott , ‘ and on Sundays I plan how to kill Portuguese . ’ |
| 18 | This rediscovery has come through historical exhibitions held recently at New York 's DIA Center for the Arts ( 1988–89 ) , Claude Berri 's RENN Espace d'Art Contemporain in Paris ( 1991–92 ) and at the Hallen für Neue Kunst , Schaffhausen , where Ryman 's art has been prominently featured for several years and a fresh installation opens shortly ( 2 May-31 October ) . |
| 19 | He let himself think , as he had not done for many years , of Célestine , of their year together in London , and as he had known it would , the memory made him deeply unhappy . |
| 20 | He put his arm around her shoulders , as he had not done for many years . |
| 21 | It is hitting even my constituency in a way it has not done for many years . |
| 22 | Naked , she walked into the bathroom and there surveyed herself in a way she had not done for some years . |
| 23 | Mr. Major said that the inflation figure was remarkable in a way not seen for many years . |
| 24 | In Tokyo , the Nikkei share index continued its nosedive into depths not seen for five years , despite government efforts to stimulate the slowing economy and the maudlin market . |
| 25 | In this new atmosphere the legislature displayed a determination to defend itself against executive encroachment , not seen for some years . |
| 26 | GORDON Turner has launched a search for the pal he has not seen for forty years . |
| 27 | Some parts of the house he had not seen for twenty years . |
| 28 | Holden 's story contains no suspense , while Lucy 's grips the reader totally ; for example she ‘ forgets ’ to inform the reader for six chapters that ‘ Dr. John ’ is in fact her cousin whom she has not seen for ten years ! |
| 29 | The four partners — all Irish — had planned to be open for St Patrick 's Day but , as the photo shows , that did n't stop them unfurling their banner to indicate they were already prepared for next year . |
| 30 | The fact that they had scarcely met for twenty years was immaterial and the bond between school fellows and fellow expatriates seemed stronger than ties of blood . |