Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 500 turbulent years ’ in another epic . |
| 2 | We celebrate 70 fabulous years of GH , congratulate The Queen on 40 glorious years and pledge with Princess Anne to make this a successful year for our charity , Victim Support |
| 3 | It seemed that as one job concluded another was readily available , even during the turbulent economic years between the World Wars . |
| 4 | During that eight years ' task , those at the heart of it were learning themselves how to pray more deeply and contemplatively . |
| 5 | My Lord by way of facts the first named plaintiff Mr is now er fifty eight years of age and he and his wife live in Brentwood er both are named as plaintiffs because their joint monies were expended in the purchase of the , this business and they were both parties to the purchase erm but it is clear that Mr in fact did all the negotiations for the purchase and the planning and the running of this business and he is er the prime witness on behalf of the plaintiff . |
| 6 | I do n't think I would 've been married fifty eight years . |
| 7 | There are great dangers in the royal family speaking out because I have a memory of the nineteen seventy nine , just prior to the devolution bill in the referendum in Scotland , when the Queen spoke out against devolution , now she in , in effect denied a large number of Scots the opportunity to have some sort of Scottish Parliament based here , and we probably would n't , I think , be debating this subject today , if in fact we 'd got that eleven years ago . |
| 8 | We could have enjoyed the intervening eight years together . ’ |
| 9 | Mind you , I suppose it 's better than being fifty odd years older int it ? |
| 10 | But more people today can have a taste of travel and experience its intrinsic glamour than was possible fifty years ago , when only the well-off and aristocrats could afford to spend the time and money going abroad . |
| 11 | To read how my own ancestors lived in the time of the Tudors and the Stuarts and to even learn that they occupied the 10th pew adjoining the South Wall in the Myddle Church has been the inspiration to write down some reminiscences of my own childhood and of the stories related to me , in the hope that they will be of interest , not only to the present generation , but maybe , also to that 500 years hence ! |
| 12 | It 's only fifty old years old . |
| 13 | The position of Gaelic has deteriorated dramatically in the intervening forty years and it is now argued convincingly that a local language is itself a development tool . |
| 14 | A multichannel spectrum analyser , with the capability of scanning 10,000,000 frequencies simultaneously in the microwave portion of the spectrum , would work in tandem with some of the world 's largest radio telescopes in a targeted survey of solar type stars within 75 light years ' distance . |
| 15 | Mr Moynihan blamed his defeat on the ‘ collapse of the Liberal Democrat vote , which came from Labour some years ago and has to some extent returned there ’ . |
| 16 | The technique in question is Bob Blake 's Managerial Grid , still going strong 30 years after it was developed in the US , and likely to show new life in the UK now that management consultants P-E International have taken on the somewhat dusty licence . |
| 17 | It will eventually , yes , well the sun will erupt , not , not , not this , the sun will , the sun will , the sun will burn its bloody self out or explode or , or do , or do something , and this galaxy will go and probably , what about all the other galaxies in the bloody universe , you know , and , how , how , how , how , how , how , how 's get , how 's , how 's , how 's can you even think about it , you know , it 's millions and millions and millions of bloody light years away , what the bloody hell . |
| 18 | To be accepted as member there really would cap a memorable few years . |
| 19 | The power of the position which Truman inherited had been immensely increased by Roosevelt 's unparalleled 12 years in office , and by his achievements first in meeting the emergency of the Depression and then in directing the nation at war . |
| 20 | Well I 've took that , I took that some years ago but I 've never seen it on show you know ? |
| 21 | There 's a very good example of that some years ago er in one of these groups I had erm a student had a severe stutter problem and he said that he had hypnosis and for two years he was fine , he had no stutter and suddenly one day under stress it came back an and ever since erm then he was having some other kind of treatment I think , but er but that 's typical . |
| 22 | On the standard picture , this wave rotates around the Galaxy ; and the solar System , orbiting the centre of the Galaxy at-a distance of about 32 500 light years ( 10 kiloparsecs ) , repeatedly passes through the density wave . |
| 23 | But he did find sodium absorption in a star 1100 light years from the Sun , and in stars that were more distant than this . |
| 24 | The Conservative Party , in various guises , was in government for eighteen out of a possible twenty-one years . |
| 25 | As the trucks were some twenty-odd years old when I was small and were still going strong forty years later , they must have paid for themselves over and over again . |
| 26 | It 's because we 're investing a lot of capital expenditure to put right some years of neglect I might say . |
| 27 | ITALIAN air force fighters scrambled to intercept a Libyan airliner flying towards Europe yesterday as the United Nations imposed sanctions on Libya for the first time in Col Muammar Gaddafi 's turbulent 22 years in power . |
| 28 | A brackish upper layer of about 10 m is underlain by about the same depth of more saline water ; beneath from about 20 m lies a permanently stagnant bottom layer of ancient sea water — a memento of the island 's emergence from the sea some 3000 years ago ( Figure 4.3 ) . |
| 29 | Armed with sophisticated sensors to detect subtle chemical and microparticle changes that are known to occur annually , the GISP2 team set out to measure annual layers in the Summit ice core one at a time from the surface to the last glacial period some 18,000 years ago . |
| 30 | Air Vice Marshal J Morris recently assumed the Presidency of the Scottish Area from Group Captain G P Marvin who retired after some 32 years as the Area President . |