Example sentences of "[adj] years [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This delay in the onset of chronic disease would increase the number of disability free years in old age which the average person would experience . |
| 2 | The limited number of urns per fabric may reflect , Russell suggest , a number of pottery-making occasions or different potters , perhaps even the maintenance of a clay-pit or different years of pottery-making . |
| 3 | The source studies in the table featured different years of origin , discount rates , health state valuations , settings , and types of comparison programmes ; all of these differences may raise problems for meaningful comparison . |
| 4 | This is excess mortality of er rates for males and females age one to four for different years of the twentieth century . |
| 5 | Erm , this is a graph for annual mortality of males and females aged one to four for different years of the twentieth of the century . |
| 6 | On a cold and very windy afternoon at Athletic Park it was far removed from a smiling task for Danaher to sit on the benches and watch his men concede an avalanche of tries , 11 in all , the greatest concession to any Irish opposition in 118 years of international participation . |
| 7 | That was the start of the two most demanding years of her life . |
| 8 | Chartered Architect with over 30 years post graduate experience both in the U.K. and abroad seeks interesting post in the U.K. or abroad . |
| 9 | As Bromberg tells us at the beginning of her excellent mixture of history of science and politics , ‘ The US government has supported a research programme in fusion energy since 1951 , and in the 30 years through 1980 it has expended more than $2 billion . |
| 10 | Pink-footed Geese are not quite of annual occurrence in Sussex , but were noted in 20 of the 30 years between 1947 and 1976 . |
| 11 | Spotted Crakes were recorded in 17 out of the 30 years between 1947 and 1976 , with a total of 26 birds seen . |
| 12 | There was significant symbolic value attached to the talks as the first meeting in 30 years between Nelson Mandela , the ANC deputy president , and Chief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi , leader of Inkatha , who had once been fellow students at university , and were now the country 's two most influential black leaders . |
| 13 | Even though it offers compensation to people who have already bought shops or flats , Albania 's court system , now being rebuilt from scratch after almost 30 years without a justice ministry , will have a hard time sorting out property disputes . |
| 14 | Sentenced to 30 years for his peaceful political views |
| 15 | Pardons went also to 64 left-wing guerrillas , but not to Mario Firmenich , founder of the Peronist guerrilla group , Montoneros , who is serving 30 years for murder . |
| 16 | North America and Europe are catching up fast , but it is appropriate that a Japanese company has gone back 30 years for a discarded technology to solve some of the problems . |
| 17 | So if you have worked 30 years for a company that has 1/60th pension scheme , you will receive 30/60ths of your final pay — in other words , half . |
| 18 | Kung had been released from prison in 1985 after serving 30 years for " counter-revolutionary " crimes [ see p. 33724 ] . |
| 19 | Mario Chanes de Armas , 65 , who took part in the 1953 assault on the Moncada Barracks and was one of the original rebels who had landed in the Granma in 1956 to launch the revolution , was released from prison on July 16 , after serving 30 years for allegedly plotting to assassinate Castro . |
| 20 | Many treatments have evolved over the last 30 years for controlling upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage in patients with cirrhosis and portal hypertension . |
| 21 | The specified period of 80 years is the period referred to in the Perpetuities and Accumulations Act 1964 , but there is no reason why the period can not be less , eg 30 years for a 25 year term . |
| 22 | 30 years for IRA terrorist |
| 23 | They ignored temporary conversions from roughland to grass leys ( and vice versa ) and found that in the 30 years to 1980 in their 6 study areas , 15,000 hectares of rough pasture had reverted to roughland but 23,900 hectares of roughland had been converted to grass leys . |
| 24 | their debut single reissued on limited edition CD and seven-inch format , 30 years to the day after it was originally released |
| 25 | But if elected on June 8th , he plans to pay for it by leasing the city 's international airport for 30 years to a private-sector manager . |
| 26 | The level of owner occupation in Britain has increased rapidly during the last 30 years to the point where nearly two out of every three households either own or are buying their own home . |
| 27 | For most of his 30 years on the throne , King Hassan has ruled severely , in truly regal style . |
| 28 | Such events occur once every 30 years on average in our Galaxy , and a good proportion are not visible optically because of intervening matter . |
| 29 | If the hon. Member for Oldham , West or I wrote to our local tax inspector and claimed that someone had put a form through our letterbox requiring only our signature for the taxation officer to open up our tax affairs for the past 30 years on the offchance that we might be entitled to something , that would be farcical . |
| 30 | Another four men and three women were sentenced to prison terms of between four and 30 years on charges of murder and piracy [ for January execution of alleged counter-revolutionary see p. 38715 ] . |