Example sentences of "from [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a feeling of exhaustion from eight years of wars , which the allies thought would turn the people against Saddam and lead the way to surrender . |
| 2 | As they were certain about only one thing , their fourth child was not going to Holland Park Comprehensive , they followed the psychologist 's advice and Emma , from eight years onwards , had a happy , if conventional education at boarding school , first at Knighton House in Dorset and then , at thirteen , moving to the more traditional Cranborne Chase . |
| 3 | I went to school at ordinary time from as a kid and then up to till you 're about eight years old , then from eight years eight , nine , then you , I went to for about last four years . |
| 4 | The median duration of glue ear assessed otoscopically reduced from 6.1 years without surgery to 3.5 years with tubes , 3.4 years after adenoidectomy , and 2.3 years with the combination of adenoidectomy and tubes . |
| 5 | Among married women , average age has risen even more sharply , from 24.3 years in 1964 to 25.2 in 1980 and 26.9 in 1989 . |
| 6 | Escape from 500 years of the tyranny of the eye , the brain . |
| 7 | The CURL libraries represent major research library collections , around ‘ million volumes from 500 years of collecting and maintenance , comprising some 56% of the total stock of pre-1922 universities . |
| 8 | Life expectancy for men rose from 70.8 years in 1981 to 73.2 years in 1991 , and for women from 76.8 to 78.8 years . |
| 9 | Something 's snaked its way out of their Civil War — from fifty years ago — to wrap itself round our throats . ’ |
| 10 | Something 's snaked its way out of the Spanish Civil War — from fifty years ago — to wrap itself round our throats . ’ |
| 11 | We 've found Margaret and John from fifty years ago , who lived in Wigston . |
| 12 | How appropriate , how impressive : ‘ From light years they arrived , to feel the pulse of everyone around . |
| 13 | Robin Carlisle of the opposition Democratic Party said the agreement to return to talks was a major step forward for the halting transition from 300 years of white rule to a non-racial democracy . |
| 14 | If no year is shown , this may denote that it is a blend of grapes from different years . |
| 15 | Comparing the datasets from different years is not straightforward , for the following reasons . |
| 16 | President Bill Clinton will represent a decisive break from 12 years of Republican Party rule . |
| 17 | Sir Alec Cairncross , a former Chief Economic Adviser to the Treasury , heaps praise on the Attlee governments at the end of his highly regarded study Years of Recovery : ‘ Whether one tries to look forward from 1945 or backwards from forty years later , those years appear in retrospect , and rightly so , as years when the government knew where it wanted to go and led the country with an understanding of what was at stake . |
| 18 | Complete remission was obtained in six patients including four treated with cyclophosphamide , with a follow up ranging from 1.5–7 years . |
| 19 | ‘ It comes down to applying a judgement based on the background knowledge we 've acquired from 30 years of monitoring and reporting human rights ’ . |
| 20 | An illustrated lecture by Dr John Shannon OBE , Chairman of the York Civic Trust , examining the architectural details of York — gleaned from 30 years of walking around the City . |
| 21 | It is the typical paper of the 25 years up to 1914 and was spectacularly revived by Irving Penn in the 1980s in order to reprint his major contributions to the photography of haute couture from 30 years before . |
| 22 | Especially since the ‘ efficiency savings ’ from 10 years of government cuts are much the same size . |
| 23 | It provides over 2,000 files of price histories , dating from 10 years back , and with price changes updated immediately on screen . |
| 24 | Without prejudice to our views in paragraph 27 above , we favour a reduction in landbanks from 10 years to 5 on the basis that it would signal the urgent need to reduce the rate of supply and consumption of minerals , and conserve existing reserves . |
| 25 | Without prejudice to our views in paragraph 27 above , we favour a reduction in landbanks from 10 years to 5 on the basis that it would signal the urgent need to reduce the rate of supply and consumption of minerals , and conserve existing reserves . |
| 26 | Former President Ahmed Ben Bella , 73 , returned from 10 years of exile in France and Switzerland on Sept. 27 . |
| 27 | The prison sentence imposed on " junk bond " financier Michael Milken was reduced on Aug. 5 from 10 years to 33 months and 26 days . |
| 28 | Among the developing countries that participated in the World Fertility Survey ( WFS ) , the median age at which women aged 25 to 29 years at the time of interview first married or entered a union ( i.e. , the age at which one half of them entered into conjugal union ) ranged from 13.1 years in Bangladesh to 23.0 in Sri Lanka . |
| 29 | Of course they 're rock and pop now , I suppose , … and I 'm talking about from 1st years onwards . |
| 30 | College or university follow and can last from 4–6 years . |