Example sentences of "a [adj] many year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rodrigo was very fond of his Spanish mother who , though she had lived in Britain a great many years , spoke scarcely a word of English . |
| 2 | There has for a great many years been a link of friendship between the people of lslay , particularly of the Rinns , and Ballycastle in the north of Ireland . |
| 3 | ‘ A great many years from now , in another universe , a man in a mirror told me to do nothing . |
| 4 | Which is a bit different and I 'd like to see it , that 's just one of my things , but again when you 're in , going into retirement I think you 've got to think about this , I mean I went , nobody twisted my arm , I went into that situation and I 've enjoyed it for a great many years , but now I 'm thinking I 'd , before I , it 's too late I want to have a , a l a fling in autumn as it were . |
| 5 | They concerned my mother 's paternal grandfather who had spent a great many years in southern Africa — Natal and Cape Colony . |
| 6 | Starting from the classical theories of elasticity such questions as the prediction of elastic moduli from the inter-atomic forces and the part played by crystal structure and crystal defects have been the subject of research for a great many years . |
| 7 | If a thorough search was made of the ale-house and its out-buildings he would go to prison for a great many years . |
| 8 | The Government 's proposition is simple : a person making a claim that may date back a great many years ought to be able to produce some evidence to back it up . |
| 9 | The hillside had been quarried for a great many years . |
| 10 | And the conservative group is running the council in the sense that labour has scrambled , obviously over the last few days , to reduce its tax level to something closer to the tories and I 'm going to stand with my fellow liberal democrats tonight and vote for a higher figure because , not only because I think that there 's sort of things we want to do in our budget , are b are b are better and and would be better done than not done , but because I think there 's a fundamental political ethical issue here and it 's one which has been confronting this country for a great many years and which is going to be crucial in the next election . |
| 11 | I did touch on this problem a good many years ago in an essay I wrote on the death of a great music-hall artist , Marie Lloyd . |
| 12 | Every Saturday night , for a good many years , he and George and George 's wife Annie laughed themselves to stitches and talked , glassy-eyed among friends , in the bar of the Cross Keys . |
| 13 | We 've created in Ulster and Ireland a monster that will terrify the island for a good many years to come . |
| 14 | ‘ Of course he was away in England for a good many years , ’ Bull O'Malley offered by way of explanation . |
| 15 | Having craned my neck in likely locations for a good many years , I finally discovered it displaying its gorgeous wings over an oil-stain beside my car . |
| 16 | They would n't join the grown-ups for a good many years , though the Sheikha 's daughter had been my meal companion before I myself had been accepted by the ‘ grown-ups , . |
| 17 | When I was eighteen I came in contact with the Catholic Crusade which was a rather left wing Christian Socialist Organization and I found that their attitude to problems contained the answers for which I had been searching for a good many years tell me when you want me to raise something . |
| 18 | AIDA ruled the advertising world for a good many years , in the absence of anything better . |
| 19 | Not only was it a loss to the series of Malcolm Hulke for a good many years , it was also a nail in the coffin of the show 's bid to be genuinely educative . |
| 20 | Of course , you can change the fellow , as for instance Margaret Allingham did over a good many years with her Mr Campion , who started out as a form of imitation Scarlet Pimpernel and ended as an acute and compassionate observer of human follies . |
| 21 | Do n't because there is at present , and has been for a good many years past , almost nowhere to publish the stories you may write . |
| 22 | Authors in both traditions happily wrote away in the footsteps of the great Sherlock for a good many years after his second , slightly less flamboyant departure from the scene . |
| 23 | I had decided to enter for a competition for British crime writers , run a good many years ago by Ellery Queen 's Mystery Magazine . |
| 24 | It was to be a good many years before Coniston came within the sphere of operations however . |
| 25 | From then onwards , indeed for a good many years , nothing more appears to have been done on the Coniston Manor . |
| 26 | Mrs. Davey , whose husband had been an agent for a good many years on £16:0s.:0d. per month was granted £16 : 12s. : 8d. upon his death in 1847 . |
| 27 | If you steady yourself a little you could be giving the Army and the Lord a good many years . |
| 28 | I dare say you 've noticed , miss , as he 's a good many years my senior ? ’ |
| 29 | But in South Africa today , and surely for a good many years to come , there are also additional considerations that demand from a large company actions and policies that go beyond its immediate business interests and seek to ameliorate the excessive social and economic imbalances that have developed in our society . |
| 30 | But unlike a lot of us who think it will be severely abused for a good many years to come , new agers are optimistic . |