Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [art] [adv] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We are going to start to combat the transport congestion and make the investment in communications without which commercial Britain will judder to an expensive and dangerous halt in a very few years . |
| 2 | Mr Kinnock said : ‘ We are going to start to combat the transport congestion and make investment in communications without which commercial Britain will judder to an expensive halt in a very few years . |
| 3 | Although occupational pension schemes are increasingly common , levels of payment are often linked to earnings in the most recent years of work . |
| 4 | Well , I was interested , which wo n't surprise you , and tried it on and off , mostly off , for the moments of stress over the momentously stressful years . |
| 5 | If such a system is adopted , it may keep TV viewers happy for a few years , but it will prove a handicap to the growth of information technology and a source of discontent within a very few years . |
| 6 | Younger people are on average thirteen times as likely to be assaulted as people in the over 45 years of age category . |
| 7 | In France during the most critical years of the Spanish Succession war in 1704–8 and 1712 , one in six of the male population was serving in the army or the militia ; and in the period 1700–63 about two million men were enrolled for military service there ( though some 300,000 of these were foreigners ) . |
| 8 | Khomeini seemed then only a very small voice in the wilderness , Bit in retrospect , the party at Persepolis can be seen to symbolize the end of the most successful years of the Shahs reign . |
| 9 | From 936/1530 to well beyond the limits of the present study the office was held continuously by Ottoman scholars , a survey of whose careers suggests that if the office was not a mevleviyet from 936/1530 it was so from a matter of a very few years thereafter . |
| 10 | Similarly a young Russian diplomat , serving in a junior post in London during the very first years of the twentieth century , found that the embassy possessed only one typewriter , and that so old that it was difficult to use . |
| 11 | In many respects this was a return to the position of the very last years of the fourth century ; the establishment of arian kingdoms on Gallic soil had removed from the catholic bishops sole authority over the definition of the Christian community , and it was only the conversion of Clovis and the expansion of the Frankish kingdom which gave the ecclesiastical hierarchy the authority once more to define the Christian life for all the members of the State . |
| 12 | The outbreak of war naturally marked the end of the collaboration of Picasso and Braque , but the unprecedented closeness of their artistic careers over the preceding years makes it impossible to separate completely the contribution made by each to Cubism during the most vital years of its development . |