Example sentences of "[adj] year [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fred by Posy Simmonds LOUISE CHUNN ( mother of Charlie , 3 ¾ , and Alice , 1 ½ ) Bill 's New Frock , by Ann Fine ( Methuen , £6.95 ) Winner of Smarties Book Prize 89 ( 6-8 years category ) Bill 's an obliging little boy . |
| 2 | Run by ex-airline couple with 30 years experience of caring for people . |
| 3 | Their bosses , sitting on the senior loan committee , are pragmatic , nuts-and-bolts bankers whose grasp of local banking is often profound , the product of 20 or 30 years experience . |
| 4 | Over the past 30 years investors in American and British IPOs who sold their shares on the first trading day earned returns of 15% and 12% respectively . |
| 5 | I 'll miss football and the day-to-day involvement after over 30 years boy and man . |
| 6 | For the past 30 years Aegina has been producing about the best pistachios in the world . |
| 7 | For 20 of the next 30 years OCA and Wings Aviation Limited flew ‘ DRD out of Red Lake , using floats for the summer and Noorduyn-designed streamlined skis during the winter . |
| 8 | For more than 30 years Brooklands was the home of hundreds of races , the scene of many record attempts , and the testing ground for manufacturers who were restricted to the 20mph speed limit on Britain 's roads at the time . |
| 9 | For over 30 years Israel had no need of excuses . |
| 10 | retired after 30 years service , working most recently in the maintenance department . |
| 11 | He says the Hercules has had 30 years service , and there are 2,000 of them . |
| 12 | The college 's head of training plans to retire after 30 years service . |
| 13 | Awarded the MBE is Meurig Davies , 54 , of Deganwy , who has been coxswain of Llandudno Lifeboat since 1970 , and retires next April after 30 years service . |
| 14 | — Special presentation parties were held for George Flowers , treasurer of Framwellgate Moor Workmen 's Club , who has retired after 30 years service and for Consett Station Social Club steward Freddie Emmerson on his retirement . |
| 15 | A friend of 30 years standing who had previously cared for a woman with senile dementia described how : |
| 16 | Over 30 years property shares have lost 44 per cent of their value relative to the All Share Index . ’ |
| 17 | The risk of developing cancer is increased in those individuals who have had extensive colitis for more than 10 years after the first attack , the cumulative cancer rate being 7% at 20 years and 17% at 30 years disease duration . |
| 18 | New developments — In the last 20 or 30 years Nepal 's population has near doubled . |
| 19 | In the last 20 or 30 years Nepal 's population has near doubled . |
| 20 | For nearly 30 years Mike Hooper from Water & Ventilation , Salisbury was a rally navigator , but 5 years ago he stopped when a large tree jumped out in front of the car . |
| 21 | He said : ‘ We always knew we would have to deal with this at some stage — maybe in 20 or 30 years time — but the damage caused over a couple of nights during January and February was much worse than we ever anticipated . ’ |
| 22 | It was founded in the late 700s , but most of its present buildings ( pastel-coloured and timbered , and punctuated with onion-dome towers ) date from the reconstruction in the late 1600s and 1700s , after the 30 years war . |
| 23 | For more than 30 years Mr Hewitt was coroner for South West Durham , retiring from that position when he became a judge in 1980 . |
| 24 | If the standard calculations of the greenhouse effect are indeed correct , then over the next 30 years temperatures are likely to rise by a full degree ( centigrade ) as ever-increasing quantities of fossil fuel are burnt . |
| 25 | In even-numbered years entry is to the University of Edinburgh . |
| 26 | For some years attempts had been made to prohibit the sale of firearms and a Pistols Bill had been presented to Parliament in 1893 . |
| 27 | For some years Joshua had nursed a gentle passion for collecting early Staffordshire pottery : not the Victorian mantelshelf dogs , or even the soldiers and sailors of the Crimean War , but the turn-of-the-nineteenth-century stuff , the square-based figures of gods and goddesses , busts of great men ( few women ) , and resist lustre jugs . |
| 28 | For some years schemes have existed to encourage teachers to set out like Victorian missionaries to explore the strange and wild territory of industry and to convert its leaders to an acceptance of the virtues of education . |
| 29 | The move has been initiated in the US , where for some years customers have been removing the skin ( the fattiest part ) from the chicken before eating it . |
| 30 | For some years Pan Am had been selling some of its more profitable routes to rivals , in an effort to head off its mounting financial problems . |