Example sentences of "year a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For several years a strong link has been reported between food sensitivity and overpopulation with a yeast , Candida albicans . |
| 2 | In the last few years a powerful controversy has arisen over whether the dinosaurs as a whole were cold-blooded , like all living reptiles ( and there is no doubt that dinosaurs were reptiles ) , or warm-blooded , resembling mammals in this respect . |
| 3 | Many insects and their larvae eat the leaves of plants , and in recent years a complex skein of plant-insect interactions have been glimpsed . |
| 4 | Thus in a few years a mere convenience for keyboard players had developed into a widely adopted performing practice which revolutionized musical textures and was to remain in use for two centuries . |
| 5 | In recent years a critical consensus has gradually been forming as to the nature of postmodernism . |
| 6 | The cattle were either ‘ walked ’ down to the marshes direct from market or were brought to the nearest point by train : today they are transported by motor-lorries , and in recent years a rough road has been built right across the marshes to enable lorries to have direct access . |
| 7 | In recent years a broad spectrum of Filipino opinion — ranging from conservative nationalists to the communist NPA — had opposed the presence of the bases on the grounds that they were an affront to the sovereignty of the Philippines and were a vestige of the country 's past colonial relationship with the USA . |
| 8 | The Profitboss , whatever his job , builds up over the years a wide range of contacts to whom he gives assistance and with whom he exchanges information as well as completes mutually beneficial business deals . |
| 9 | In the course of the last five thousand years a wide variety of stones other than jade have been highly esteemed for jewellery , insignia , seals and the embellishment of personal weapons . |
| 10 | But over the past few years a new breed of journalist has evolved — hungry , competitive and aggressive . |
| 11 | Peter Smith believes that in recent years a new type of upward influence has developed called ‘ whistle blowing ’ . |
| 12 | For several years a new model for nursing has been researched , written about and tried out which allocates a number of patients rather than tasks to each nurse . |
| 13 | In recent years a major balance-of-payments crisis had been prevented only by assistance from foreign governments and loans from multinational institutions ( particularly the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank ) . |
| 14 | so it meant that for some time before contingency fund development was introduced you must of had some concerns er about the accuracy of the figures you were putting forward for the publication , can , can I explain that a little more ? if after a few years a major repair needs to be carried out there was no contingency fund , it might mean sticking another two or three hundred pounds a year on the service charges , might it not , to cover a major repair |
| 15 | in two years a damning verdict on the Government ? |
| 16 | There are exceptions and it is fair to say that over recent years a good deal more attention has been paid to these problems . |
| 17 | At least , he may have begun in a monastery , but in the event he took orders and was for years a junior pastor somewhere in Worcestershire . |
| 18 | We also have to provide support for the A N C for thirty years a banned organization having to start from scratch in a country where the majority is supported but having no party officers or structures in place because if we suspend support to them or reduce it it will be like having no support of them all this time and just when the bird is about to fly you clip its wings . |
| 19 | As has been seen , the progress of Thatcherism had been erratic , even hesitant , since 1979 , though the Falklands victory had given the record of the past four years a spurious consistency . |
| 20 | Gow was for many years a close associate of Margaret Thatcher , the Prime Minister , having been her parliamentary private secretary during the first four years of her premiership in 1979-83 , and a member of her government as Minister of Housing in 1983-85 and a Minister of State at the Treasury from September to November 1985 . |
| 21 | Among the latest recipients of Chris Patten 's little billets doux are Sunderland councillor Eric Jenkins , 47 years a Labour party member , and Richmond councillor George Irwin , whose letter was posted locally . |
| 22 | Yet for almost 20 years a black-owned company , Writers and Readers , has been putting out a line of books in Britain and America , called ‘ the Beginners Series ’ , designed to tell black children and students about history , culture and famous people . |
| 23 | Within a few years a temporary revival was on the way , however , and William Titford , grandson of William the Emigrant , was achieving a fair degree of success as a partner in the silk-manufacturing business of Cotes , Titford and Brookes , then operating in Union Street , Bishopsgate . |
| 24 | For many years a companionate relationship may exist between two generations of adults in a family , each leading an independent existence . |
| 25 | Over the next few years a keen struggle was waged to the entire satisfaction of neither nation . |
| 26 | For a few years a lean-to building stood against the remaining old wall which sheltered the homeless and I have spoken to one old inhabitant of Halling who remembers coming to the village as a young child and whose parents , being unable to afford other accommodation , sheltered there . |
| 27 | Over the next hundred years a motley collection of military servicemen ( voennosluzhilie lyudi , fur-hunters , merchants , government officials , Orthodox clergymen , fugitive serfs , entrepreneurs and tradesmen ( promyshlenniki ) , convicts , religious dissidents , foreign prisoners-of-war ( generically known as Litva , ‘ Lithuanians ’ ) , cossacks , artisans , adventurers and vagrants ( gulyashchie lyudi ) steadily overwhelmed the indigenous Siberian native population and established a strongly defended network of wooden fortresses , outposts and stockaded population points , several of which swiftly grew from small military and administrative settlements into substantial , bustling frontier towns , a process described in more detail by David Collins in Chapter 2 of this book . |
| 28 | During the following 20 years a threefold increase in incidence occurred among men in Copenhagen and its suburbs ( p for trend=0.001 ) . |
| 29 | In fact , ‘ public notice ’ comprised for many years a small insertion in the classified advertisement section of two national daily papers and one local paper , jammed between husbands who were no longer responsible for their wives ' debts and the liquidation of bankrupt companies . |
| 30 | For 20 years a small oil industry based on South Georgia elephant seals , which ended when commercial whaling from the island ceased in 1963 , was also well managed on sound biological principles . |