Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adj] years [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fulham will pay a low introductory rent for three years while they seek a partial redevelopment of the stadium . |
| 2 | He had been married to Ellen for six years but they had no children . |
| 3 | Such people have been disappointed , to say the least , that the Government postponed the community care programme by two years because they saw it as an opportunity for the balance of resources between residential care and community care to be readdressed . |
| 4 | Ipswich v Sunderland Ipswich will put together their best run for five years if they avoid defeat against Sunderland . |
| 5 | Having cruelly ignored the band for two years as they dragged their own equipment between some of London 's less than prestigious live dives , people are finally beginning to wake up to the idea of Suede . |
| 6 | Thus , where landlords were entitled to determine a twenty-one year lease " at the expiration of fourteen years if they shall require the premises for the purposes of a business carried on by them " it was held to be sufficient for them to show that they would need at least part of the premises before the date on which the lease would otherwise have expired by effluxion of time ( Parkinson v Barclays Bank Ltd [ 1951 ] 1 KB 368 ) . |
| 7 | In another case , a director of an investment company was disqualified for 10 years and his co-director for six years because they had caused the company to continue trading while insolvent , had transferred assets to other companies which subsequently failed , and had been seriously negligent . |
| 8 | Mr Harper , who has written to Durham County Council with the couple 's bid , said : ‘ I have known these people for seven years and they are superb to their residents . ’ |
| 9 | Another funny story , also off the record is that that lay in a drawer for two years because they thought it was controversial , they thought it was which I find hilarious . |
| 10 | Expect them to be hammered and they hold the eventual World Cup winners to a point : expect them to see off a side which had not won in the Championship for three years and they submit weakly . |
| 11 | Alfie Common scored a penalty at Bramall Lane , home of Sheffield United , to give Middlesbrough their first away win for two years and they managed to avoid the drop to the Second Division . |
| 12 | ‘ David Mellor and his family have been coming to my restaurant for 18 years and they are my very good friends , ’ says Moziruddin . |
| 13 | Their marriage had been under strain for some years and they had never been brave enough to admit it to a third party . |
| 14 | Accommodation and compromise have not characterized the attitudes and actions of the young university-educated activists of the DUP of recent years because they grew up in the zero-sum game , and even if they forgot its rules long enough to consider shifting the DUP 's aims , there is no reason to suppose that the voters would support them in their deviation . |
| 15 | However , the group which had their first babies between 1950 and 1954 had a median of 9.7 years before they returned to paid employment . |
| 16 | It was the fourth rise in German interest rates this year and the first time for several years that they have risen by a full percentage point . |
| 17 | Angela Jones , 26 , of the same address , said she had known Michael for eight years and they had lived together for seven . |