Example sentences of "[det] years [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I WAS impressed by Billy McKenna 's powerful article , ‘ Pushing up the daffodils in Brazil ’ and horrified — even as an Amnesty International member of some years ' standing — to read of the brutality meted out to Antonio Gilvan da Cruz and others . |
| 2 | I was merely a naval officer , with some years ' experience in intelligence , and two languages . |
| 3 | My name is Mr , I am an ordinary shareholder of some years ' standing . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | On this basis , the offer represents 14 times this years ' earnings . |
| 6 | Student Kevin Bayliss said raising the money was ‘ extremely difficult ’ and expressed concern for this years ' first and second year . |
| 7 | About 1300 journalists registered at this years ' show , and you have only to read the number of column entries and to hear the radio and to see the television to know that the content of this year 's Royal Show stands second to none in the technical content of agricultural exhibitions across the world . |
| 8 | Further indications of the sudden demise of the ‘ design ’ era — in the wake of redundancies and bankruptcies — are the cancellation of this years ' London 's Designers ' Saturday and the decision to move the Salone del Mobile in Milan to April next year . |
| 9 | This years ' Ski USA Award for excellence in Ski Journalism went to John Samuel , Ski survey 's Consultant and Racing Editor . |
| 10 | Look out for this years ' Lillywhites evening in November , and see if you can be a lucky winner . |
| 11 | SEVERAL P&O Marathon Men successfully completed this years ' London Marathon — each in their own style . |
| 12 | And will the six percent , which the Director of Education has been instructed to save across all central budgets , be enough to cover this years ' education overspend ? |
| 13 | This would render fruitless two and a half years ' negotiations between LAG and BP Coal leaving LAG to start from scratch with a new company . |
| 14 | In Indonesia , in October 1990 , post-graduate researcher Bonar Tigor Naipospos was sentenced to eight and a half years ' imprisonment because he ‘ attempted to undermine Indonesian state ideology ’ through participation in a university study group and distributing banned literature . |
| 15 | AFTER TWO and a half years ' studious application , Tilbury Container Services Personnel Officer , Paula Lowe , is now a graduate of the Institute of Personnel Management . |
| 16 | Kenneth Tindall , 20 , of Woodvale Road , Grove Hill , was sentenced to two and a half years ' custody . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | a few years er beyond er our why not celebrate our own centenary ? |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | no at the moment all my friends have , have been married a few years erm next time you come and er |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | So in a few years ' time mobile phones will be brought to the masses . |
| 26 | But I read in an article this morning ( 'Students set to pay full fees ' , 29 September ) that if I were applying in a few years ' time , I would have to ask my parents to pay the full cost of my tuition . |
| 27 | A few years ' work in the brothels of Bangkok can earn girls more money than their families ever dreamt of . |
| 28 | Production of the Japanese industry 's two principal profit earners — the F-15J fighter and the P-3C anti-submarine aircraft , both built under licence from the United States — will peter out in a few years ' time . |
| 29 | What in the world would the company be like in a few years ' time if such people were in the driving seat ? |
| 30 | New York became conditioned to skyscrapers which were torn down after a few years ' life to be replaced by newer skyscrapers . |