Example sentences of "years there [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hill ( 1987 ) reports that under unthinned Sitka spruce older than 15 years there is very little ground flora ; only bilberry ( Vaccinium myrtillus ) will persist . |
| 2 | After a delay of some years there is now some momentum behind the production of a guidebook for the Clwyd Limestone area . |
| 3 | INCREDIBLY for a railway system that has served the nation for more than 150 years there is still a considerable amount of history either still serving or extant . |
| 4 | His profound sense of fatalism becomes apparent as early as the last paragraph of his very first speech : ‘ … every few years there is still a case , and as the parties tell me what the trouble is , … the thought comes in that … another lawyer , quite differently dressed , heard the same complaint and sat there as powerless as I , and watched it run its bloody course . ’ |
| 5 | That 's how I was taught you see and so in spite of the long lapse of years there 's still a tremendous amount up there because it was , it was properly learnt , you learn something thoroughly |
| 6 | The first adult Scout troop formed was the 1st Duke of Grafton 's Own ( Clapham St. Bede 's ) which was formed in 1913 , and within a few years there were also Scouters and Guiders established in London at West Ham , Green Lanes ( St. John of Beverley 's ) , North Clapham and Stoke Newington . |
| 7 | Within five years there were over 4000 smallholders participating in the scheme , and their marketed output had increased by nearly three times over previous levels . |
| 8 | Alas , within 10 years there were too many locomotive builders for the small number of orders being produced in those depressed time . |
| 9 | Roger Wade , co-owner of the Boxfresh label and now handling UK fashion sales for the Carhartt brand gives an insight into the emergence of workwear : ‘ For probably two years there were only really bits and pieces of names like Carhartt being worn — it was a very small thing , but it was being worn by the right people . |
| 10 | In 1873 , Edward Dannreuther talked on the music of the future ( meaning Wagner 's ) and Sidney Colvin on taste and artistic judgement ; and in succeeding years there were always some Discourses essentially on the arts-a word which by this time had come to mean literature , music , painting and sculpture rather than crafts and techniques . |
| 11 | During these three years there was also a sharp deterioration in Britain 's balance of trade , not assisted by her annual average deficit on her trade account with the EEC of some £10 billion . |
| 12 | The Brook provided the water for at least eight mills and over the years there was often great competition for the supply . |
| 13 | For some thousand years there was virtually no attempt to give a ruler an individual image . |
| 14 | And although the City Council has managed over the years to old council house rents down , I think for three years there was absolutely no rent increase and then only about a nine per cent increase , although we 've managed to hold council house rents down until |
| 15 | For a few months , I entertained a ray of hope that after many , many years there was now less need for young men to face death in battle , but that hope has now died . |
| 16 | In post-war years there was only a nine-minute service of Marton cars during the summer season , until it closed in 1961 . |
| 17 | They suffered me to the extent that I did my column for 530 weeks in a row but over the years there was more and more of a crackdown on giving me facilities in the office . |