Example sentences of "[num] year [noun sg] " 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 | I 'll miss football and the day-to-day involvement after over 30 years boy and man . |
| 5 | retired after 30 years service , working most recently in the maintenance department . |
| 6 | He says the Hercules has had 30 years service , and there are 2,000 of them . |
| 7 | The college 's head of training plans to retire after 30 years service . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | — 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 . |
| 10 | A friend of 30 years standing who had previously cared for a woman with senile dementia described how : |
| 11 | Over 30 years property shares have lost 44 per cent of their value relative to the All Share Index . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It 's been re-opened today after 2 years renovation and the new tenants will be paying £15,000 this year alone . |
| 16 | " By 2 years allowance by G.P.O. paid by Niel Currie , Postmr. £10 . " |
| 17 | The Home Office is due to close the prison in 2 years time , with the building being passed on to Oxfordshire County Council for a nominal £9,000 . |
| 18 | As a retired lawyer with more than forty years experience of criminal courts and a private pilot of more than 25 years standing I think that , like many others , you badly underestimate the intelligence of both the legal profession and the average jury . |
| 19 | After forty years service , Karl Ptak retired from the company in September . |
| 20 | Rod Turnbull , Managing Director , and Keith Bill , Works Director , ( centre ) present Karl Ptak ( left ) with a video recorder on his retirement after forty years service . |
| 21 | Awards for forty years service were presented to ( left to right ) : Back Row — Alec Watt , Charlie Allan , John Connelly , George White , Tom Walker & Jackie Wilson . |
| 22 | Yes erm because I doubt it , erm at the moment with the fund that we 're talking about the erm the close scheme , because most of these people in B T were originally erm in the Post Office , and of course when the they split erm then the erm Post Office workers went over to B T , they get a B T pension but in actual fact they paid into a pension scheme erm for many of them for forty years because they come into that age group , where so many people , you took a job when you were twenty o or or sixteen and you stayed with it for life , you did n't chop and change like people do these days and the majority of our members erm we can go down and I would say the vast majority of our members have actually worked for the Post Office or starting with the Post Office and then B T or staying with the Post Office for forty years , there 's no end of them they 've got in there forty years service . |
| 23 | Although some of them have clocked up nearly forty years service , they 'll get no redundancy pay from the company , and their pensions have disappeared . |
| 24 | Maybe in forty years time , people will be looking back at the good old days of the Nineties to see which rising stars started their careers playing North-East venues . |
| 25 | The city of Budapest has come up with an imaginative solution to the problem of where to put over forty years worth of statues , sculptures and monuments dedicated to the heroes and events of communism . |
| 26 | For the last forty years population growth has been used an explanation for African famine , allowing us to blame Africans for bringing their poverty upon themselves . |
| 27 | Peach retired in 1905 after 43 years service in a career which had taken him into nearly every part of Scotland and brought him world-wide recognition as an outstanding field geologist . |
| 28 | FRED LANSDOWN has retired from P&O Cruises after 43 years service . |
| 29 | ( seated , has completed 22 years service — could she be our longest serving secretary ? ) |
| 30 | , SE region poultry adviser who has retired after 22 years service and more than 750,000 miles ! |