Example sentences of "[adj] for [det] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having led the world into polyester fibre and been highly profitable for many years , we lost the lead position due to a combination of circumstances . |
| 2 | It had originally been left to her by a noted amateur ornithologist and eccentric with whom she had been friendly for many years . |
| 3 | This is a beautiful , small twelfth-century room , used as a stable for many years after the depredations of the Revolution but carefully restored in the 1850s . |
| 4 | David Philip , chairman , described trading conditions as the ‘ poorest for many years . ’ |
| 5 | Except on North America voyages , and despite falling unemployment and rising real wages in the country as a whole , seamen 's wages rose little for some years . |
| 6 | ‘ We are still in business and still functioning as normal for this year 's but we might have to revert to a one-day show in 1993 , ’ added Mr Steel . |
| 7 | ‘ We are still in business and still functioning as normal for this year 's show . |
| 8 | ‘ People seem to think we are getting rid of all the books but the only ones we have done away with are those which had been hidden away unused for many years . ’ |
| 9 | The expenditure negotiations this autumn are expected to be the toughest for many years . |
| 10 | Ministers expect the current public spending round to be the toughest for many years as the Government seeks to maintain its anti-inflation policy outside the ERM disciplines . |
| 11 | In all this Basil 's sense of humour , kindliness , and perception both of personalities as well as of every aspect of the visual arts , were a great help and encouragement to me , and I shall always be grateful for those years in , the West Riding when I knew and worked with him . |
| 12 | That charge has been wrong-headed for some years ; nevertheless , it has been sustained by enough left-wing activity to feed Conservative propaganda . |
| 13 | The Board of Trade , which began to make estimates in 1906 , gave 7,000 for that year , 9,000 for 1907 and 1908 , 10,000 for 1909 and 12,000 for 1910 . |
| 14 | The annual floods had been low for some years , and conditions in the villages were very bad . |
| 15 | Shares in Bennett & Fountain will hit a fresh low for this year on Monday after an out-of-hours announcement last night that ‘ the group has made a significant pre-tax loss for the year to 30 June ’ , due to difficulties in the retail division . |
| 16 | AFTER being ill-served for many years by the investment industry , the small investor at last has a choice of funds which follow share indices . |
| 17 | The award ceremony took place in the canteen on a December afternoon where over 100 retired and serving members of the work force were gathered , making it the largest for many years . |
| 18 | Via infected leaves these winter spores enter the soil where they can remain alive for several years . |
| 19 | His memories of Heather , bolstered by his possession of her photographs , had given him courage and hope , emotions to which he had been a stranger for more years than he cared to remember . |
| 20 | The national health service is greatly improved , in that for many years — including those years when the Labour party was running , or reported to be running the country — the financial balance of the service was poor . |
| 21 | I suppose one of the things I use to demonstrate it most clearly is that for many years I s I gave lectures on communications and one of the things I used to say in those lectures was I did not know , and I was stressing that sense what came first if newspapers write stories in a particular way , because that is what the public wanted or do public want a particular type of story and that 's that newspapers round-up and I stopped posing that question when Rupert Murdoch bought the Melbourne Sun because Rupert Murdoch bought the Melbourne Sun and introduced a lot of sex-type stories you know stories about brothels and madames whipping people and goodness knows what else and the sales rocketed and there we had almost a captive example of change in the design of change in the type of stories that were written and people , people were buying it and so you have an issue of you know that your content was actually being by what your readership wanted . |
| 22 | That the club marked its centenary in 1990 is unconnected with arthritic administration , rather that for many years Shildon believed it was two years later . |
| 23 | But the relationship was extremely good , I think that you might say that for many years in my service , it was almost a case of the law abiding citizens in Ipswich coping with the wrongdoers . |
| 24 | The history of this is that for many years M O D were unhappy about expansion of the , of the port er , for commercial use and the reason they were unhappy of course was that erm commercial use was competition that they felt would be likely to drive up wages . |
| 25 | The Catch 22 problem was that for several years there had been few big headlines about fusion as no dramatic breakthroughs had been occurring . |
| 26 | He also told me that for some years , two unknown people , evidently strategically placed in big City offices , have been collecting for us all the first-day covers received there . |
| 27 | so we decided to join that for this year . |
| 28 | Erm , the local government act nineteen ninety-two permits the auditor to actually advise the council to er matters which we believe that you should consider in full , er er , County erm , Council meeting , and I 'm pleased to confirm that for this year there is nothing of that nature , that er , we would put to you , to refer to . |
| 29 | But tragically , she lost the baby and was told not to get pregnant for another year . |
| 30 | The same spoon had been used for this for many years and was burnt black . |