Example sentences of "[num ord] [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Orders for the second 10 years , by which time the capital costs of THORP will also have been recovered , are coming in steadily with more than 40 per-cent capacity sold to Germany , Nuclear Electric and Scottish Nuclear . |
| 2 | ( If ) At any time within a year the said Wm Roe by writing in his own band signified that he intended to have a 21 year lease from the date hereof " paying one-fifteenth part of the 1st 7 years and one-twelfth for the remaining 14 years such lease will be executed . " |
| 3 | That hard-fought win might have been deemed enough for the season , but his French owner was keen to run her little battler ( bred in France ) in the top French jumping event — in which he had finished second three years earlier — and so three months after the Gold Cup , when he might have thought himself to have earned a summer holiday , Mandarin was despatched to Paris . |
| 4 | In his annual report to the nation on Nov. 1 setting out goals for the second three years of his six-year presidential term , President Carlos Salinas de Gortari proposed radical reforms of agriculture , the education system and the status of the church based on changes to the 1917 Constitution . |
| 5 | Because of the long lead time that would be required to bring such supplies on stream ( not only in opening the quarries but also in preparing suitable dock facilities ) it is not envisaged they will make a major contribution until the second ten years covered by MPG6 . |
| 6 | Because of the long lead time that would be required to bring such supplies on stream ( not only in opening the quarries but also in preparing suitable dock facilities ) it is not envisaged they will make a major contribution until the second ten years covered by MPG6 . |
| 7 | As members of a dynamic Association , Stirling students are already shaping their vision of what [ external forces permitting ] their SUSA should be , in the University 's second 25 years . |
| 8 | In knocking these businesses together and into shape , Mr Welch raised GE 's annual growth rate in labour productivity from 1.9% in his first five years to 4.4% in his second five years by axing whole layers of managers as well as tens of thousands of factory and clerical jobs . |
| 9 | Employed married women tend to delay their first and second child , compress their childbearing into their late 20s and the second five years of their married life , and avoid third and subsequent births ( compared to housewives ) ( ni Bhrölchain 1986b ) . |
| 10 | The years of closure will be very busy ones , and at the end of them the building will have been returned to sound condition , and the garden restored , for the commencement of Waddesdon 's second hundred years . |
| 11 | A much fresher horse who has been trained for this all season is Brown Windsor , fourth two years ago . |
| 12 | I 'm inclined to agree with Upson , whose last National tilt was when Over The Road finished fourth two years ago . |
| 13 | So it is that tomorrow , ITV will screen a profile of the man who spent the first eight years of his life in Abyssinia ( now Ethiopia ) and graduated to serious eccentricity via an English prep school ( where he was beaten ) , Eton ( where he learned to box ) and finally Oxford ( where he was a boxing blue and acquired the dramatically-bent nose which for six decades has lent drama to what would in any case have been a distinguished face ) . |
| 14 | Naomi Sargant , who for the first eight years of Channel 4 as the Senior Commissioning Editor for Educational Programming , talked to Women about her experience of the television industry . |
| 15 | In the pre-First World War days of two divisions , the top limit of transfer fees rose in the eight years from 1905 to 1913 from £1,000 to £2,500 , an increase of 150 per cent ; in the first eight years of three divisions ( 1920–28 ) they went up from £3,300 to £10,890 , an increase of roughly 230 per cent . |
| 16 | But equally , MDC in its first eight years was not a major generator of jobs — and the individual cost of those created was extremely high . |
| 17 | Launched in 1979 , Jaguar 's first eight years were spent on the West Coast of the States . |
| 18 | Mohammed has a son , Mustapha , who was a lively boy for the first eight years of his life , then some cerebral bug hit him . |
| 19 | The federal pump-priming for their establishment , eventually extended to cover their first eight years , was not intended to support them for the long term . |
| 20 | This biography is not merely content to tell you everything you ever wanted to know about Dickens ( interesting fact : Dickens spoke with a slight ‘ metallic burr ’ in his voice ) ; nor does it stop at telling you everything you never wanted to know about Dickens ( uninteresting fact : there were white Christmases for the first eight years of Dickens ' life ) ; it goes so far , as with that unidentified novel , as to let you know when it can not tell you something . |
| 21 | Er as you say , about the first eight years . |
| 22 | Yet Pitt during his first eight years managed to raise annual revenue from £12.5 million to £18.5 million . |
| 23 | For the first eleven years following its introduction , ICA offered one of the most explicit examples of the assumption that married women are ( or should be ) economically inactive and financially dependent upon an earning husband — until 1986 they were excluded from the benefit on the grounds that ‘ they might be at home in any event ’ ( DHSS , 1974 , para. 60 ) . |
| 24 | During the first eleven years of Tory government approximately twenty thousand jobs per year were created by foreign-owned companies . |
| 25 | The First Fifty Years . |
| 26 | So , art history only begins after the death of the work , but as long as the work lives , or at least in the first fifty years of its life , it communicates with people living in the same period who have accepted it or rejected it and who have talked about it . |
| 27 | Another airfield celebrating 50 years is RAF Woodvale and Airfield Publications have released their book RAF Woodvale — The First Fifty Years to commemorate the event . |
| 28 | They complain about having to live in a village for three generations before winning social acceptance or ruefully conclude that ‘ the first fifty years are the worst ’ . |
| 29 | This was the activity with which they came to be most closely identified in the first fifty years of their existence . |
| 30 | We could n't go on pretending that the first forty-seven years of Alex 's life had n't happened . |