Example sentences of "years that [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's only in the last few years that everyone has begun talking seriously about fibre in diet , although those who have always eaten a breakfast that includes all-bran have known for years about the virtues of fibre . |
| 2 | They told people for years that they lived like brother and sister — but no-one believed them . |
| 3 | They said it 's only in the last five to seven years that they 've had the technology to do it . ’ |
| 4 | a lot of it is er propaganda by the Conservative if , if they were gon na get it right , why could n't they get it right in the thirteen years that they 've been in power ? |
| 5 | Over the two hundred years that they owned the house their fortunes dwindled until the house was sold to the Hutchings family in 1736 . |
| 6 | The people of Scotland have proved for years that they support an assembly . |
| 7 | And she kept trying to convince herself that Julius would never carry out his threat , but it had been four very long years that they had been apart . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | When he goes on the one day in two years that something went wrong , that shows he 's doing a good job . ’ |
| 10 | Almost 25,000 balls has he sent down in Test cricket , and although Sir Richard Hadlee , in an otherwise gracious radio tribute immediately after the 400th wicket had been bagged , pointed to the greater number of Tests and deliveries needed by the Indian , it is by assessing the amount of support from the other end over the years that we gain a full picture of Kapil 's place in history : he has carried India 's bowling almost throughout his career . |
| 11 | We 've seen a very controlled and steady growth over the thirteen years that we 've been in business and I think as you can see there year on year we have consistently increased turnover and increased profitability . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | We 've been telling the Rugby Union for years that we want help ; what they 're doing now is like shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | For it is for ourselves and our own lost years that we grieve years , happy and sad , that will not come again . |
| 17 | Yeah but the thing is , it 's something that we 've got to think for life really , or we 're just gon na be in the same situation in a couple of years that we wan na something a bit bigger . |
| 18 | And the thing about it is such as erm well not only Tanys Dell that biggest part of school is here the population has decreased so much in the last ten years that we having now to close schools |
| 19 | It was bitterly resentful , her hatred burning high as she remembered the months running into years that it had taken for her to convince herself that the guilt she had felt after her own father 's death was a self-destructive trap and just one more wrong done to her by Luke Scott . |
| 20 | What is even more significant for wage profiles is that all of the figures quoted for average tenure are well below the 25–30 years that it takes to reach the peak of the earnings profile . |
| 21 | The report could guide UK chemistry teaching into the 21st century , yet it allows children to be taught without atoms or molecules for eight of the 11 years that it covers . |
| 22 | The town has always been a primary IRA target but this is the first time in many years that it has singled out the commercial centre . |
| 23 | Indeed , according to Booth , it is only in the last couple of years that it has focused on product marketing . |
| 24 | Interest in golf has grown so rapidly in the last ten years that it has reached out beyond its traditional confines and become glamorous . |
| 25 | During the three years that it has been accommodated at the Paris Exhibition Centre at Porte de Versailles — the original venue at CNIT having succumbed to the demolition expert 's hammer — the Salon Nautique has expanded by almost 20 per cent . |
| 26 | However , it is only within the last 10 years that it has become possible to process text electronically and thus improve the way non-routine information can be handled . |
| 27 | However , this sector of the Environment Services Division has expanded greatly in the ten years that it has been operating |
| 28 | It says , that not only does it save it 's money when it comes to when we 're putting in the tender bids , but actually the profits it makes goes back into the County Council , it has a two- prong saving of averages to this council , and we 've known and seen in the years that it 's been running that money has come back into county council balances , which means that we can have more money to spend on other services . |
| 29 | ‘ It was only in the last years that you knew us . ’ |
| 30 | I 've said for years that you stop teams infringing by upgrading the penalty to , say , five points , and not be upgrading the try . |