Example sentences of "year a [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It demonstrates what appears to have been a major weakness of the UK economy , namely that the UK has required over the last twenty years a higher rate of gross investment to produce a given increase in output , than did West Germany , France , Japan , the USA or Canada . |
| 2 | Many insects and their larvae eat the leaves of plants , and in recent years a complex skein of plant-insect interactions have been glimpsed . |
| 3 | Thus in a few years a mere convenience for keyboard players had developed into a widely adopted performing practice which revolutionized musical textures and was to remain in use for two centuries . |
| 4 | In recent years a broad spectrum of Filipino opinion — ranging from conservative nationalists to the communist NPA — had opposed the presence of the bases on the grounds that they were an affront to the sovereignty of the Philippines and were a vestige of the country 's past colonial relationship with the USA . |
| 5 | The Profitboss , whatever his job , builds up over the years a wide range of contacts to whom he gives assistance and with whom he exchanges information as well as completes mutually beneficial business deals . |
| 6 | In the course of the last five thousand years a wide variety of stones other than jade have been highly esteemed for jewellery , insignia , seals and the embellishment of personal weapons . |
| 7 | But over the past few years a new breed of journalist has evolved — hungry , competitive and aggressive . |
| 8 | Peter Smith believes that in recent years a new type of upward influence has developed called ‘ whistle blowing ’ . |
| 9 | For several years a new model for nursing has been researched , written about and tried out which allocates a number of patients rather than tasks to each nurse . |
| 10 | in two years a damning verdict on the Government ? |
| 11 | Gow was for many years a close associate of Margaret Thatcher , the Prime Minister , having been her parliamentary private secretary during the first four years of her premiership in 1979-83 , and a member of her government as Minister of Housing in 1983-85 and a Minister of State at the Treasury from September to November 1985 . |
| 12 | Over the next hundred years a motley collection of military servicemen ( voennosluzhilie lyudi , fur-hunters , merchants , government officials , Orthodox clergymen , fugitive serfs , entrepreneurs and tradesmen ( promyshlenniki ) , convicts , religious dissidents , foreign prisoners-of-war ( generically known as Litva , ‘ Lithuanians ’ ) , cossacks , artisans , adventurers and vagrants ( gulyashchie lyudi ) steadily overwhelmed the indigenous Siberian native population and established a strongly defended network of wooden fortresses , outposts and stockaded population points , several of which swiftly grew from small military and administrative settlements into substantial , bustling frontier towns , a process described in more detail by David Collins in Chapter 2 of this book . |
| 13 | During the following 20 years a threefold increase in incidence occurred among men in Copenhagen and its suburbs ( p for trend=0.001 ) . |
| 14 | In fact , ‘ public notice ’ comprised for many years a small insertion in the classified advertisement section of two national daily papers and one local paper , jammed between husbands who were no longer responsible for their wives ' debts and the liquidation of bankrupt companies . |
| 15 | From the inter-war years a small number of tennis professionals played tournaments in the United States . |
| 16 | Over the years a small number of programmes have come from lesbians and gay men : the Scottish Minorities Group 's ‘ Glad To Be Gay ’ in 1976 , and coverage of the Clause 28 debate . |
| 17 | Within the last few years a small piece of wall has been restored and recapped to preserve the last few remains . |
| 18 | Almost alone among its peers , Britain will see over the next 20 years a small decline in its old-age dependency ratio ( the number of people aged over 65 as a proportion of the working population ) . |
| 19 | For the next four years a great part of my time was spent in secret meditation upon this subject , I could not speak to anybody about it for fear of giving pain . |
| 20 | In recent years a great number of two- , three- and four-star hotels and apartment hotels have opened . |
| 21 | In the ensuing years a great number of new mines came under the aegis of Johnnies and prior to the opening of the Rand Refinery in 1922 , all the gold from JCI 's mines on the Witwatersrand , was refined in the UK by JM . |
| 22 | In earlier years a great deal of lip service had been paid in Scandinavia to cooperative efforts , up to and including economic cooperation ; but the several discussions had been infrequent and without any tangible results . |
| 23 | The most promising compounds were selected and studied in many laboratories , and in the next few years a substantial number of monoamine oxidase inhibitors went into clinical trials , and some into widespread clinical use . |
| 24 | GRAMOPHONE has published a number of Rust 's discographical works , including British Dance Bands on Record , 1911–1945 ( in association with Sandy Forbes ) , and he was for many years a regular contributor to this magazine . |
| 25 | Over the past three years a large number of deep mines have closed , while at the same time there has been pressure to develop and expand the open-cast and private sectors of the industry . |
| 26 | In some years a high proportion of the birds involved are adult males . |
| 27 | In recent years a growing sophistication in tachistoscopic half-field investigations has derived from a conceptual and methodological framework known as information processing theory . |
| 28 | It seems to me that we 're stronger fighting that together than apart and in the last few years a growing number of successful campaigns have strengthened this belief . |
| 29 | Disquiet at the new direction of religious affairs soon surfaced in parliament , and over the next few years a growing number of MPs began to speak out against the Arminian threat . |
| 30 | Any nation has to learn democracy er , and it seems to me that all the people of the Soviet Union have shown over the last four or five years a lively interest in politics and considerable to participate in politics , er one of the problems is of course is that they 've been doing so , too much and in too disorganised a way , they 're going to have to get together . |