Example sentences of "[prep] [det] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If you 'd told me the truth about that years ago , none of this wretched business would have happened . ’ |
| 2 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , I am well aware of the fact that for some years now you have cut yourself off from your past and not deigned to reply to the letters of your friends , or even to return their calls , taking refuge in your answering machine and pretending not to be in when they rang at the bell . |
| 3 | Also , remember that many people with HIV infection may remain perfectly well for some years , and it is not possible to tell who is infected just by looking at them . |
| 4 | But it was the Greek islands on which his attention was finally fastened , notably Hydra ( Ydra ) in the Saronic Gulf , which had had an artistic community on it for some years . |
| 5 | The Anniversary Organising Committee had felt that a clock should be commissioned to replace the one which had been stolen , and perhaps because I have for some years specialised in the reproduction of historic clocks , my name was one of those considered . |
| 6 | Version 1 of Rescalc has been around for some years and is today regarded as rather palaeolithic . |
| 7 | For some years before his move to Cambridge he chaired a seminar at University College London , which discussed the literary implications of structuralism , semiotics , and emergent poststructuralism . |
| 8 | Ingmar Bergman , who for some years now has been insistent that Fanny and Alexander was his farewell to the moving image , has decided to stage a come-back with a project called The Good Will . |
| 9 | That charge has been wrong-headed for some years ; nevertheless , it has been sustained by enough left-wing activity to feed Conservative propaganda . |
| 10 | For some years leading Labour politicians have offered two separate justifications for the block vote — one in public , the other in private . |
| 11 | With the Hammersmith team he took part in the evolution of the heart-lung machine and for some years the Melrose pump-oxygenator was the standard in Britain . |
| 12 | McKenzie had told him that he had not looked at the videos or magazines for some years before the assault and felt they played no part in his behaviour . |
| 13 | It has been known for some years now that records of the electricity activity of the brain during sleep — by electrodes attached to the scalp , face and neck — confirm that different types of sleep exist . |
| 14 | He expects to stay at the hotel for some years to come to oversee operations . |
| 15 | For some years now modern farming has made tremendous demands on the finite sources of energy which exist on earth . |
| 16 | So in 1972 a new secretary was appointed for the task , Anthony Gray , who worked away for some years and helped set it on its feet again . |
| 17 | For some years , therefore , he has only read The Times . |
| 18 | Faye as Prefect-Apostolic of Ziguinchor , Senegal , brings Africa into line with India , China and Japan , who have each been able to boast their own bishops for some years . |
| 19 | For some years after her exit from the integrated military structure of Nato , France was the pioneer in East-West relations . |
| 20 | Though debt-for-equity swaps represent one way for banks to recover part of their developing country debt exposure , they still stand to lose money and look likely to have to wait for some years before they can cash in their equity stakes . |
| 21 | After working , and studying law , for some years as a rank-and-file party member , he was appointed — at the height of the Prague Spring — deputy federal prime minister . |
| 22 | He made accomplished paintings for some years thereafter , but his recent work , like Souza 's , disappoints . |
| 23 | Any chance of the former had been negated by Britain 's failure to topple Nasser at Suez ; and the latter was unlikely for some years because the aircraft did not , as yet , exist ; and the RAF had no real enthusiasm for providing the necessary money to buy them out of Air votes , which they quite naturally wanted to use for combat and not transport aircraft . |
| 24 | Aden was at that time an RAF command , in which the operational policy of air control had been successfully applied for some years . |
| 25 | High levels of mercury have been reported from Faroese for some years , and the Health Department there has advised islanders to cut down on the amount of whalemeat they eat . |
| 26 | For most of the time the ‘ Big Bird ’ preferred to sacrifice the flat-out pace of his team-mates for accuracy and control , taking wickets by making the ball swing and cut , and so in Tests was for some years used as first or second change bowler . |
| 27 | Cricket in Australia had been declining in popularity for some years , not helped by an abject England team two seasons before , and the excitement that West Indies generated by their enterprising play was unbounded , culminating in a vast ticker-tape send-off when the tour was over . |
| 28 | Christopher had obviously been going there for some years . |
| 29 | But some countries can and do make the stuff — Brazil for one uses alcohol/diesel and alcohol/petrol mixes , and the USA has had ‘ gasohol ’ ( petrol with 10% ethanol ) for some years . |
| 30 | For some years I had had a similar experience in the teaching of literature , amazed to see colleagues attempting to hound students , in the context of a two- or three-year course , through complex texts in a single session : today we read King Lear , tomorrow we discuss it , and next day you write your essays on it . |