Example sentences of "years [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | must have at least two years full-time employment in the industry directly concerned with food and/or beverage preparation or service or with provision and/or service of accommodation . |
| 2 | PhD candidates with a Masters qualification have to complete a minimum two years full-time study . |
| 3 | They formed the basis of the LM method which was to follow after another five years painstaking work . |
| 4 | For years Labour leader John Richardson has condemned newcomers to the area ( he calls them immigrants ) . |
| 5 | Typically an Information memorandum would include three years historic profit and loss accounts and balance sheets . |
| 6 | FOR THE first time in three years Steffi Graf was yesterday reminded what it feels like to leave a tournament a quarter-final loser when West Germany were beaten 2-1 by Czechoslovakia in the Federation Cup here . |
| 7 | With Brian Kirkland and Colin Matthews ' 35 years combined experience in the aviation insurance business and over 2,000 hours at private and commercial pilot level it is clear that you are dealing with people who know the business from both sides . |
| 8 | 50 years combined service |
| 9 | Although in recent years total government capital spending has been of the order of £20 billion per annum , Brown and Jackson ( 1983 , p. 138 ) point out that this represents a real reduction of approximately one half over the past 20 years . |
| 10 | We must expect , however , that over the years total production from a given turtle population will produce males or females about equally . |
| 11 | After three or four years concentrated study , you may feel like recharging the batteries before having to adapt to the routine of a full-time career . |
| 12 | That 's right , that 's what you said in in you saying that populations were going , growing geometrically agricultural production was going arithmetically , as a result a population crash is inevitable , alright , but we know that is n't true right , because what , when Marthus was writing , erm , Marthus was writing just before in the agricultural revolution in the U K so agricultural technology had n't improved very much in sort of five hundred years right , but in the next hundred years agricultural production , erm , or productivity grows far faster than erm , than population . |
| 13 | Volume II , spanning the years 1922–44 will appear next year . |
| 14 | The Scientific Committee had in previous years expressed concern about the Dall 's porpoise harpoon fishery , fearing that even the much smaller annual catch may not have been sustainable , since Japanese scientists had calculated a replacement rate of only about 5000 porpoises each year . |
| 15 | But farmers have short memories : within a couple of years economic stagnation had stemmed the labour outflow and even led ex-farm workers in some areas to ask for their former jobs back . |
| 16 | It is estimated that in the years 1896–1913 German landholdings declined by over 98,000 hectares , 20,000 of which were in and around Danzig . |
| 17 | erm as if a window had never been opened for years and years and years that type of a house . |
| 18 | Over the many hundreds of years that Night Goblins have lived in the tunnels they have become quite used to dealing with these fearsome creatures . |
| 19 | The reabsorption into landed society of those families who had suffered in the upheavals of the past decade was to be a slow process , and was to give rise to fresh disputes over lands claimed by families who had been on opposite sides , but Edward showed over the next twenty years that loyalty and service would receive their due reward . |
| 20 | The funding of capital expenditure is usually spread over the years that benefit will accrue . |
| 21 | In fact , when he stunned Jim courier and double Wimbledon champion Stefan Edberg that week it was only the seventh time in over four years that feat had been achieved . |
| 22 | Within a few years that mill housed a gig mill , four fulling stocks , as well as picking , shearing and press shops . |
| 23 | ‘ Maybe now after 20 years that person may want to relieve his or her conscience and help put me and my husband out of our misery by coming forward . |
| 24 | Considering Dicke 's thesis as well as van de Kamer 's publication in 1952 it is quite clear that when Dicke went to Utrecht to perform his classic dietary fat absorption experiments , he had already been convinced for years that wheat , rye , and oat meal products were the offending agents in the cause of coeliac disease . |
| 25 | Our experience generally in North Yorkshire 's been over the last ten years that overall , there have been exceptions , but generally overall , there 's not been a problem about local plans drying up and then allocations drying up over the period , generally . |
| 26 | The FDA Division of Epidemiology and Surveillance has consistently held over the past six years that triazolam produces many more and more severe psychiatric adverse reactions than comparable benzodiazepines . |
| 27 | In almost two years that expectation has evaporated , and now Hick is thought of by many as a mere one-day specialist , someone whose England place has survived only because of his limited-overs achievements ( 697 runs from 23 internationals at an average of 38 ) and his all-round ability as a fielder and more than useful off-spinner . |
| 28 | It has been seven years that life does not bring me any joy and being totally blasé , I have decided to put an end to those viragos . |
| 29 | For nearly thirty years that crusade has been regarded as one of his least successful , whereas a later British Crusade at Earls Court in London in 1966 has always been seen as a triumph . |
| 30 | Scientists have been warning for at least 30 years that humankind 's pollution of the atmosphere was about to have serious effect . |