Example sentences of "years there [is] [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 |