Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Few figures are available from the 1955 Census and data does not exist in this detail for intervening years . |
| 2 | They 've been fighting out there for bloody years . ’ |
| 3 | During adolescent years when we face the responsibilities of adulthood and the prospect of choosing a career and making a living in the world . |
| 4 | You may want to put further sub-directories below that , maybe for different years , ninety three , ninety four ninety five . |
| 5 | This is excess mortality of er rates for males and females age one to four for different years of the twentieth century . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Comparing census data for different years |
| 8 | Some break in communications between parents and children often occurs during teenage years . |
| 9 | Clinton would slash $37.5bn from Bush 's defence budget proposals for fiscal years 1993–96 . |
| 10 | Statement 110 applies to all financial statements for fiscal years beginning on or after 15 December 1992 , but need not be applied to deposit administration and immediate participation guarantee contracts entered into before 20 March 1992 . |
| 11 | It also restated downward — although not drastically , previously reported results for fiscal years to June 1992 and 1991 , to reflect the fact that customers that bought Sequoia gear were not required to pay for some kit until it was resold to end-users . |
| 12 | They could study what they chose , in the order they chose , and there would be no distinction between different years , or levels of course . |
| 13 | Credit may be given when determining your commencing salary for completed years of nursing service in an equivalent or higher grade than before the break . |
| 14 | Both were neglected in the 1980s in the constant pressure to find cost-improvement savings , though the first would have resulted in longer-term economies and the latter will result in much bigger bills through cumulative years of neglect . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , at clubs like Tottenham and Ajax of Amsterdam , fans now celebrate their club 's Jewish associations after suffering years of abuse for the same . |
| 16 | After teenage years , the most common cause of tooth loss is gum disease , so regular brushing should include gums as well as teeth . |
| 17 | erm she said she thought everything would be okay apart from partial blind due to accident after teenage years cos it 's basically it 's actually a college |
| 18 | After early years in Jamaica and Erriboll , Scotland , the family settled in London . |
| 19 | Red in the face he dumped the burden onto the massive wooden kitchen table , which gleamed white after countless years of daily scrubbing . |
| 20 | Just NORMAN BRITTON , C OF E. After forty-odd years of being a good boy and paying the mortgage and … ’ |
| 21 | Indeed throughout humanities disciplines , after thirty-odd years of this kind of research , there are embarrassingly few books and articles which can be confidently pointed out as passing both tests . |
| 22 | After long years of living in unsatisfactory rented accommodation , it now looked as if Jack and Minto could afford a place of their own . |
| 23 | Asked what he hoped for Soviet art and culture after long years of political oppression , he said there would be an enormous spiritual benefit , not least because of easier travel and contacts with the rest of the world . |
| 24 | A key feature of the Intifada is that , after long years of trans-frontier or inter-state conflict between largely faceless enemies , it brought the conflict back to where it essentially belongs , to Palestine itself . |
| 25 | These men are also frequently by their misfortunes raised into the greatest benefit that Charles Lamb wrote of as being his fortune to realise after long years of being a poor man in time to be lifted into a vast inheritance . |
| 26 | After long years of thought we are conditioned to respond to this imperceptible stimulus of beauty , and we see the imagery in the small and insignificant , and feel the sensation of ecstasy that it causes . |
| 27 | They had continued to write , frequently at first , then more and more seldom , and only once more had he heard from him , by chance , after long years : married , a father , in a high judicial position . |
| 28 | Finally , after long years , she had become a party-goer . |
| 29 | After 40-odd years of dependence , the change is daunting . |
| 30 | Tommy Gorman , acting convener at the Albion plant in Glasgow , added : ‘ I saw a staff manager leaving with a plastic bag and half-an-hour 's notice after 40-odd years of service . |