Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adj] for [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labour knows , and the long faces around the hon. Gentleman confirm , that the council tax is a winner and that we have found in three months the solution that has eluded Labour for three years . |
| 2 | The GRIST funding represents a timely response to addressing these issues , although a cautionary note has to be sounded — if the curriculum is not considered satisfactory for four years olds in general , what of its relevance for four year olds with special needs ? |
| 3 | Mr Andrews cited the example of an A&E nurse who had done suturing for many years . |
| 4 | Gastric emptying tests with radiolabelled meals and gamma camera imaging have proved popular for many years in clinical research and physiological studies . |
| 5 | At a site by the Royal Hotel that has remained undeveloped for 40 years , sycamore ( Acer pseudo platanus ) is beginning to appear above a dense patch of buddleia ; the sycamore is probably the natural successor to buddleia in this city . |
| 6 | Over the years the weather and man have been responsible for destroying parts of the forested areas and , although some re-afforestation has taken place , large areas have remained depleted for many years . |
| 7 | Thehealthy twins have remained healthy for 21.4 years ( range 8–40 ) after the diagnosis of the matching twins who had ulcerative colitis and for 14.9 years ( range 7–31 ) in the twins discordant with those who had Crohn 's disease . |
| 8 | I 'm not surprised she 's gone short for four years . |
| 9 | It therefore follows , in our judgment , that although this has gone unnoticed for 119 years , the jurisdiction of the judges as visitors , in so far as it relates to questions as to the fitness of persons to become or remain barristers , is a jurisdiction which in 1873 was vested in the judges of the three common law courts , sitting elsewhere than in court or chambers , when acting as judges , in pursuance of custom . |
| 10 | Both enjoy heavy soil and dappled shade and can be left undisturbed for some years before lifting , dividing and replanting |
| 11 | Already drawn to poetic vision and utterance , Leonard discovered this world for himself , cutting the virgin edges of the books which his father had left uncut for 40-plus years . |
| 12 | The new bridge , designed by W.H. Barlow , was of wrought-iron lattice girder construction , like the old , but proper scientific calculations were made this time to allow for lateral wind pressure — the first time scientific studies of such stresses were made — and the new Tay Bridge , still the longest railway bridge in Britain at just over 2 miles , has stood solid for 100 years , linking Dundee with Fife . |
| 13 | Having stood empty for many years , 1987/88 saw the start of considerable renovations and rebuilding . |
| 14 | In 1902 , after the Hall had stood empty for some years , Lord Halifax lent it to a small community of Church of England Benedictines under Abbot Aelred Carlyle , the subject of a book Abbot Extraordinary . |
| 15 | Too run-down and curiously situated to appeal to most families , it had stood empty for several years before Frankie 's parents made it their home . |
| 16 | A DARLINGTON factory which has stood empty for three years is close to being sold . |
| 17 | When the discharges first started , their levels were said to have been kept high for two years ‘ as part of an organized and deliberate scientific experiment ’ . |
| 18 | In order to protect the privacy of those whose lives are recorded , the material may be kept confidential for some years , or may be available only in a form where individuals can not be identified . |
| 19 | In their farm kitchens and workshops you could be forgiven for thinking that time has stood still for 150 years . |
| 20 | rightly , have stood condemned for 300 years for having committed the atrocity . |
| 21 | The school occupied Trench Hall , a stately home which , having stood vacant for seven years , showed all the obvious signs of neglect . |
| 22 | The tragedy at Slapton Sands in Devon , in which 700 US servicemen died when a D-Day invasion exercise went wrong , was ‘ kept quiet for 40 years , ’ he says . |
| 23 | I WAS surprised to read that Terry Charman of the Imperial War Museum gave credence to the myth that the loss of life during one of the Slapton Sands invasion rehearsals had been ‘ kept quiet for 40 years ’ . |
| 24 | Where prices were once held constant for five year periods , from 1976 onwards they have been revised annually on the basis of a five-year moving average of world market prices . |
| 25 | A sum of Rs200 would be paid monthly for three years to as many as 500,000 people currently claiming compensation . |
| 26 | Turkey has an excuse for its ignorance : the objects , it says , were looted from tombs where they had lain undisturbed for 2,500 years . |
| 27 | The prisoners have been held incommunicado for eighteen years . |
| 28 | Within a few months , seeds — which had lain dormant for many years — germinated . |
| 29 | The little man had appeared shocked at the very idea that Alfred might be suspected of killing his brother yet he had gone on , with a certain relish , to provide a convincing motive — if a motive which has lain dormant for thirty years is still convincing . |
| 30 | They had lain dormant for some years after she had left the cottage , but he knew now they had simply been growing in the warm darkness of his being where love bred … |