Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [prep] [adj] year [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just in case you 're tempted by knockdown prices on old style monitors , by the way , you should bear in mind that in four years time it will actually become illegal to use them at all at work . |
| 2 | There is also general recognition that for many years prisons have failed to meet these objectives . |
| 3 | There were apparently no immediate takers as for some years Charles continued to run Eastington 's three mills , but now in conjunction with Beards and Bonds Mills , just outside the parish . |
| 4 | For both these reasons , there is a high likelihood that with advancing years wives will be widowed and will find themselves living alone . |
| 5 | Initially the grants were concentrated mainly in the higher education sector but in recent years attention has been switched to the schools sector . |
| 6 | The Platinum Award has become a regular feature of Edinburgh College of Art 's jewellery curriculum and for several years students from the section have made it to the finals — frequently winning at least one of the prizes . |
| 7 | In April 1989 a United States drug enforcement agent gave his personal guarantee that in two years time the United Kingdom would have a serious crack problem . |
| 8 | The windsurfing concept is not limited to use on the water and in recent years windsurfing sails have been seen on land , snow and ice . |
| 9 | Until 1967 , all beef breeds in Scandinavia were registered by the Nordic Association of Beefbreeders but since that year Denmark has registered its own beef animals . |
| 10 | limited ( third party ) ( 1991 ) policy did not provide indemnity of survey carried out by nominated person not holding professional qualifications or with 5 years experience and supervised by professionally qualified person . |
| 11 | They are also proud they have managed to build up a good trade but after 15 years service at the Travellers Rest , Cockerton , the couple plan to quit in June . |
| 12 | After Nasser , he says , his themes seemed to refer to a vanished society and for five years Mahfouz wrote no books . |
| 13 | As Prof. Mark recalled , ‘ the reviewer said we were out of our minds but within two years people conceded that we were correct . ’ |
| 14 | There is no doubt that in earlier years Clarkson 's relations with some of the Claphamites had occasionally been strained . |
| 15 | As well as being one of the founders of the Automobile Club de France and the Aero Club de France , Salomons was the first director of the City of London Electric Lighting Company and for many years treasurer and vice-president of the Institution of Electrical Engineers . |
| 16 | Mr Nathan lamented the fact that for 40 years Israel had been saying it had no one to talk to and now that the other side was prepared to talk , Israel refused . |
| 17 | Any projected reconstruction of this great temple has been made very difficult by the fragmentation and scattering of the remains but in recent years Anton Bammer has published the results of his work on the site in Die Architektur des Jungeren Artemision von Ephesos , Wiesbaden , 1972 . |
| 18 | For example , the flood on the Hwang-Ho river in China in 1887 resulted in an estimated 900 000 deaths while in recent years India has suffered annual average losses of more than 700 people , 40 000 cattle and $90m in property damage . |
| 19 | I then asked John whether in recent years America was producing good literature , and what he thought of popular authors such as James Michener . |