Example sentences of "[adj] years [no cls] " in BNC.

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1 But first of all I 'd like to congratulate the officers on the report er I 'm sure that those people who have been reading the reports and officers of the County Council for some years er will have probably er , er it 's been a long time since they 've read one that 's been expressed in such strong terms .
2 Its Guaranteed Income Bond ( investment £5,000 — £9,999 ) pays a net annual rate for 1 year of 6.90% , 2 years 7.40% , 3 years 7.50% , 4 years 7.70% and 5 years 7.80% .
3 We 've been around now for two and a half years erm we work as support workers , I suppose , like erm community workers or social workers in some contexts .
4 Well only in the last er two years I would think , perhaps two and a half years er had they really started putting double plugs in everywhere instead of single plugs
5 Do you the fact that you actually lived in the flats few years er at the same with you working on the flats as well .
6 a few years er beyond er our why not celebrate our own centenary ?
7 Now the advice a few years er be from the s solicitor was not in quite the the th precisely these words but if somebody was leaving , I mean if the wife was leaving the husband , the instructions were basically Love , get your furniture out , hide it somewhere , and argue about who owns what afterwards .
8 The purpose of that , or the reasoning behind f behind that , was that , over the last few years erm , this type of expenditure has been charged not to Social Services but to the section one three seven account .
9 no at the moment all my friends have , have been married a few years erm next time you come and er
10 I mean if we look at erm the large number of single parent families , mainly who are headed by women , the position of Social Security for these women has deteriorated in the last few years erm both in terms of the real value of the money received ; Child Benefit has been frozen for the last three or four years ; regulations such as you used to be able to offset your child care expenses when you were claiming income support have been changed , women can no longer can now only earn erm fifteen pounds a week of they 're a single parent and they can not offset their child care costs .
11 er it goes back at least 300 years er possibly longer than that , it may be that when they finish the tar they had services up there to celebrate it or to remember one of the benefactors .
12 It begins as Einstein , the hick son of Tasmanian apple farmers , is prompted by a Newtonian falling fruit to discover gravity only 300 years apres la lettre .
13 It begins as Einstein , the hick son of Tasmanian apple farmers , is prompted by a Newtonian falling fruit to discover gravity only 300 years apres la lettre .
14 Er , we 've been going for twenty six years er , and we now manage around about three thousand properties and are building er and selling around about seven hundred properties a year for , for rent and low cost home ownership .
15 Er fairly easy to determine what your background 's been for the last twenty six years er and I have to say that 's quite unusual these nowadays , particularly in financial services .
16 Er I think twenty six years er they made it er they made it , you know .
17 In the twentieth century er the president who did most to , to develop the office further was , was Franklin Roosevelt , Theodore 's cousin er and Franklin Roosevelt , who became president in , in the nineteen thirties and the time of the great depression , and remained president for , till nineteen forty five so He was president for thirteen years er and his political opponents were so upset by this that they actually amended the constitution afterwards to prevent any future president from serving more than two terms of as president , so eight years is the maximum that anyone can serve as president .
18 I 'd like to come back to policy on migration chair , and I 'm grateful to Mr for pointing out that nineteen eighty is thirteen years ag away and things have moved on in every respect demographically .
19 Right I 'll be for the rest of the tutorial really , erm find yourselves something to do , I just really want to follow up er the little amount of time that I spent with second years er looking at their action plans .
20 The first May I fell out my garden and put my elbow out , this , this , this one right out which makes it awkward for me to use now , you know , I , I put that right out and therefore erm I had to go at , up to hospital and put that right and the follow the following , the following May my bed caught alight with electric blanket and that blazed all up , had my , had my bed all alight my double bed , the electric blanket and I 'd only just had it serviced and that went , that was the second May and the third May we were going on an outing me and erm Arthur that was lodging with me and he , we got out of the taxi at Parndon and it , he just collapsed and died at me feet so that 's the , that was the end of that and I 've been living here you know , since he went , and erm I used to be able to get anywhere with one stick cos I had arthritis in this right hip you see , I could get anywhere with one stick in the taxi , or anywhere and I went to my son 's , er which is now coming , I 've been here about twelve years in this bungalow , er eight years erm , eight years ago in No this November gone , I went down to my son 's , it was rather slippery and he took me down in the car and I , as I got out erm the car I said to him mind it 's very slippery , he said I wo n't let you fall mother he said , so I went in , but as I came out with one stick he still had n't got anything down , you know , if it had been a , a sort of erm sand or something down I would n't of slipped and I got half way in his car and out I fell and caught this left hip on the step , on the step and I dislocated my hip and it 's right out of the socket like that , it should be , and I ca n't have it put back because I 've had several coronaries in my life time and I can not have it put back you see
21 In 1978–82 in the European Community , with some geographical variations , the incidence amounted to 55 per 100000 , mortality 22.6 per 100000 , cumulative lifetime risk up to the age of 74 years 3.9% , and cumulative mortality 1.2% .
22 Erm your worships as far as the personal circumstances are concerned she is fifty nine years old , she has n't worked for the last three years she 's in receipt of invalidity benefit similarly her husband who has n't worked for the last ten or eleven years er , is on invalidity benefit .
23 Oh yes oh yes in my thirty odd years erm looking back now it must have been primitive in those days really .
24 In the twenty-seven years c.440 to 413 the tagos was Daochos of Pharsalos .
25 Well then in later years t baling came to be a great fashion in Orkney here .
26 Er previously I 've had , held the license of Three Fishes at Lyddon er , for three years er , previous to that I held the license of the Mason 's Arms , with for three years previous to that and before I 've been connected with the catering and licensed trade from be fifteen .
27 more than sixty feet long and erm over the last two or three years er I 've made a patio at the bottom , right the whole width of the garden
28 erm , it 's actually sitting there on the Meridian er Business Park , it 's been sitting there for three years er overgrown with er grass and what have you and it 's there .
29 Three years er three years , five years if he misbehaves , and Clayton , you say , eighteen .
30 Over the next three years D&B says its business will evolve into three different areas .
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