Example sentences of "a [noun sg] of year [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By using examples taken at random over a period of years the following list has been assembled : |
| 2 | Notwithstanding the recent flurry of statutory and quasi-statutory regulatory activity in relation to insider dealing in the UK , there has operated for a number of years a range of sanctions aimed at deterring insider abuse in both the corporate/ unorthodox context and the individual/traditional context . |
| 3 | Although Iraq had achieved formal independence in 1932 , with the exit of the British administration installed under the League of Nations mandate , there remained for a number of years a substantial British presence . |
| 4 | For a number of years the Broken Axe tribe wandered west and north , conquering the Orc and Goblin tribes of the southern Worlds Edge Mountains and the Badlands . |
| 5 | For a number of years the efforts of those who were proponents of this vision were either contained or circumvented by the majority , who resisted such a massive change . |
| 6 | That must be extremely dubious , considering that for a number of years the payments were made under protest . |
| 7 | While the company has observed for a number of years the thrust of most of the recommendations put forward in the code of best practice , some of our procedures have been adjusted so that the form as well as the spirit of the code is met . |
| 8 | What we 're , in effect what we 're saying is that for a a number of years the Communist Party has provided , has made that moral economy work i in a s and made it work very well because rents have been reduced more than the peasants would expect erm er interest rate is extremely low . |
| 9 | But , as we have evidence going back a number of years the reactor is in such poor condition that there is no way they could safely operate the current requirement of the modern government standard . |
| 10 | Of course , within a couple of years the standards simply plummeted because they simply could not cope . |
| 11 | Though scarcely a couple of years the lieutenant 's senior , he somehow felt much older . |
| 12 | The local press and radio picked up the story and carried it week after week — for a couple of years the gay struggle was big news for the folks back home . |
| 13 | For a couple of years the low cliffs of unconsolidated coombe rock and brickearth were eroded at the rate of 3.5–6m ( 12–20 ft ) per year before they were boarded in and a new groyne system established . |
| 14 | After a couple of years the clump , will be looking a little shaggy so in March cut hard back to the developing basal shoots and feed as new growth develops . |