Example sentences of "years that [pron] [vb base] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | They said it 's only in the last five to seven years that they 've had the technology to do it . ’ |
2 | It was the fourth rise in German interest rates this year and the first time for several years that they have risen by a full percentage point . |
3 | Anyway it 's the first time since the Revie years that we 've won 5 on the trot in the league so lets just be happy for a while . |
4 | The advertising 's actually larger than other products are currently spent on their advertising but w we feel that with the launch of a new product and trying to catch eight and a half percent of the mar market over erm three years that we do need to spend heavily in the department so like I say that 's forty percent . |
5 | As for my hon. Friend 's other question , I confirm that it is as a result of this Government 's economic policies and the growth achieved over the years that we have secured not only higher public spending but a substantial reduction in direct taxes . |
6 | Right , erm so do you think the place has changed much in the years that you 've worked here ? |
7 | Erm so do you feel that in the years that you 've worked here are women just as important in the factory and make up a large part of the workforce now as they , as they 've ever done ? |
8 | Tell me something in the last eight years that I 've said . |
9 | ‘ Tell me something in the last eight years that I 've said . |
10 | It 's the first time in years that I 've enjoyed the charts . |
11 | I really ca n't answer for David because in all the years that I 've known him , I always actually found him a rather cold person , even when I was 14 and he was 16 , even as boy and girlfriend . |
12 | It 's only in recent years that I 've learned to use the weather forecast before contemplating a hill-walk . |
13 | It is to these directors many of whom the industry forgot in their later years that I wish to pay tribute . |
14 | ‘ They are a breed that will enjoy a long walk and they are excellent car travellers — in the 34 years that I have owned them I have never known one to be car sick , ’ she added . |
15 | However , using any form of medication should be a last resort and it is only in the last four or five years that I have used herbal remedies ( for eighteen years before that I used no treatments ) as a lot of minor problems will heal themselves , provided that the tank is healthy and the water quality is good . |
16 | In the years that I have had to research my Bombing Years lectures I realise now that we never really got to grips with the German defences until the latter stages of the war . |