Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] several years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often such a panel gives early warning of changes in public opinion where they are consulted over several years . |
| 2 | There is some evidence that cervical cancer is more common in women who smoke cigarettes , especially heavy smokers or women who have been smoking for several years . |
| 3 | Philip Larkin had already published two novels — Jill ( 1946 ) and A Girl in Winter ( 1947 ) — before he established himself in 1955 , with The Less Deceived , as the best poet of his generation ; and John Osborne 's first play ever to reach the public theatre , Look Back in Anger ( 1956 ) , was written by an actor untouched by academia who had been writing for several years and a stranger to all of them . |
| 4 | But while the exact timing of this pattern of events was unusual , the return of the overall pattern in the early 1980s comes as little surprise to some researchers , who have been warning for several years that a new drought cycle was due . |
| 5 | Register Office , handful of guests , parents optional , drink-up at couple 's house ( in which they 've been living for several years already ) . |
| 6 | The US and North Korean governments had been communicating for several years at a low level through the US embassy in Beijing . |
| 7 | At what I called the Winter Marsh inlet , though it was not called anything on the map , there was a wooden quay in what struck me as remarkably good condition for a structure that presumably had not been used for several years . |
| 8 | A report to the meeting said services to the region had been deteriorating for several years , with fewer trains running at less flexible times . |
| 9 | A report to the meeting said services to the region had been deteriorating for several years , with fewer trains at less flexible times . |
| 10 | One EC official said yesterday that the problem of fraud involving the Vatican had been understood for several years , and that attempts were being made to stamp it out . |
| 11 | Among the host of popular classes that have been running for several years — upholstery , art , body conditioning , keep fit , body talk , jazz dance , electronic organ , and two levels of French — there are also the more recent additions of appreciation of poetry , yoga for beginners and dressmaking . |
| 12 | This new magazine is modelled on the successful ‘ English Civil War Notes & Queries ’ which has been running for several years . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've been running for several years but only up to half marathon distance , ’ he says . |
| 14 | Duncan , whose health had been failing for several years , died in West Park , Elgin , 23 May 1863 . |
| 15 | ‘ I did n't even know of them until later on in my teens , after I 'd been recording for several years . |
| 16 | But we know very little about the animals which bore these scales and although a few articulated remains have been known for several years , they show very little anatomical detail and it is not easy to identify immediate relatives . |
| 17 | Actual allocations to regions would gradually be adjusted over several years so that they moved towards the target allocations . |
| 18 | Contracts will usually be let for several years . |
| 19 | Surely he would be watched for several years , to ensure his fidelity . |
| 20 | But this year they announced the recession had hit investments mainly in property and so grants would be reduced for several years . |
| 21 | In the best traditions of the state 's statistics , a truthful answer will not be known for several years ( ie , when it is of little practical use ) . |
| 22 | The parent trees would be retained for several years after the new trees had been planted at the new site , just so that they could be used as a reference for checking . |
| 23 | Cineraria maritime ( try " White Diamond " or " Silver Dust " ) , normally used for summer bedding , can be over-wintered for several years to give foliage for cutting much earlier the following years . |
| 24 | The total of these requirements — some of which will be spread over several years — will give a good indication as to how much you have left to offer for the freehold or rent . |
| 25 | The additional defence costs of the Gulf conflict , to be spread over several years , are currently estimated to be about £2.5 billion . |
| 26 | Bank overdraft Flexible borrowing up to a certain ceiling for people with bank accounts , usually without security , and paid off over a few months , but can be extended over several years ; interest , calculated each day on how much the account is overdrawn that day , fluctuates in line with bank base rates ( usually about two per cent higher ) . |
| 27 | The MPLA-PT insisted that it could not formally recognize UNITA until the Constitution had been revised , and that elections could not be held for several years until a census and electoral rolls had been drawn up . |
| 28 | Some of this evidence comes from a corpus of anaphoric expressions from published material that we have been collecting for several years ( for a preliminary report see Garnham & Oakhill 1989 ) . |
| 29 | Some of these extra students will be people who are entering after several years in employment , or after years spent bringing up a family ; others will be coming straight from secondary education . |
| 30 | The report lists ‘ many faults ’ inherent in the way the railway had been run for several years . |