Example sentences of "[adj] years [prep] [noun] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such events occur once every 30 years on average in our Galaxy , and a good proportion are not visible optically because of intervening matter . |
| 2 | The couple have run Ronald Richardson Jewellers for 16 years and have 140 years of tradition behind them . |
| 3 | Now we can plan 2 years in front of ourselves . ’ |
| 4 | Daedalus is designing a novel house extension , a variable-pressure bedroom , which may purchase an extra few years of life for its proud owners by slowing the metabolic rate of that third of their lifetime which they spend asleep . |
| 5 | A few years of storms with plenty of rain would probably have undermined this place anyway . |
| 6 | Ken Preston-Mafham has over 35 000 colour slides and more than 10 years of experience behind him , so he is well qualified to offer sound advice on the trials and tribulations of photography ‘ in the field ’ . |
| 7 | The value of money was relative and it was becoming an increasingly difficult task for her to reconcile those early years of poverty with her present position . |
| 8 | Also in demand for private and company charter hire such as conference and product launches , the one-time roadside diner and spring company board room accumulated some 400,000 miles in the eight years of operation since their ‘ second coming ’ in 1982 . |
| 9 | He has eight years of GPs behind him and more crashes than he 'd care to remember . |
| 10 | Danny Morrison , 38 , the former publicity director of Sinn Féin , was sentenced in Belfast on May 9 to eight years in prison for his part in the false imprisonment of a police informer , but was acquitted of conspiracy to murder Alexander " Sandy " Lynch , who had been held and interrogated by the IRA 's security department for two days in January 1990 ; seven others were given prison sentences of up to 12 years for false imprisonment in connection with this and other cases . |
| 11 | One night , in a state of despair , he drank several cans of lager with friends from college — and on the way home , expressed years of frustration against his parents ' beliefs ( as well as his deep need for their love ) by throwing stones at the stained glass windows . |
| 12 | Long service awards for trio of Terriers THREE part-time soldiers with nearly 70 years in uniform between them have been honoured for long service . |
| 13 | Whatever the cause and by whatever path the impact is felt , there is no gainsaying the fact that there is a clear differential in levels of infant and early childhood mortality by age of mother at birth of child and that this differential tends , on balance , to favour the children whose mothers were about 20 to 35 years of age at their birth . |
| 14 | BRIGHTON : In six verbose years as leader of his party , Neil Kinnock has not a memorable phrase to his credit . |
| 15 | His wife , Janie , whom he married in 1879 , abetted by her mother , persuaded him after three years of matrimony during which he was in the coasting trade , to settle permanently ashore , helping him to open , first a " cook-shop " and then a larger business in Sunderland which became known as " Wilson 's Temperance Hotel and Dining Rooms " . |
| 16 | Shares in mobile phone operator Vodafone Group Plc rose fivepence to 379p yesterday after the company said that subscriber figures for April gave the company its best month in three years for connections to its network , with net new connections standing at 18,766 ; for the first time since LowCall was launched in October , net new connections to the business base exceeded net new LowCall connections . |
| 17 | Mr Rikanovic almost certainly knew nothing about Swiss law , by which anyone holding an item publicly for three years without judgment against him acquires title , but it is interesting that the visit occurred just at the time when Lord Northampton sought to have the ownership dispute heard by the Swiss courts . |
| 18 | For example in the February issue of The Art Newspaper ( No.25 pp.1 and 2 ) , in the article entitled ‘ Yugoslavia covered-up over the Sevso treasure ’ , it is stated that ‘ Mr Rikanovic almost certainly knew nothing about Swiss law , by which anyone holding an item publicly for three years without judgment against him acquires title … |
| 19 | There were also many years of frustration in my youth when the business was very small and I was bubbling with ideas , bubbling with energy and desperate to get things to happen but could n't in the very dull environment of the 1950s and early 1960s . |
| 20 | But of course it should be noted that most people are conditioned by many years of experience in which traders have tended to gloss over interest rates . |
| 21 | We urge the Government to make swift progress with this issue , for there have already been too many years of procrastination during which we have paid a high price in terms of serious and irreversible environmental damage . |
| 22 | With so many years of golf behind me , it was a task to recall my best round . |
| 23 | This is the only quotation from Panaetius ( De officiis 1.26.90 ) which can give us some idea of the conversations he had with Scipio in his many years of familiarity with him . |
| 24 | For those judgements , the reader must consult either the entries in the exhibition catalogue written by Sarah Whitfield and discussing nearly 170 works of art showing at the Hayward Gallery and the participating museums in the United States , or David Sylvester 's monograph , the result of many years of rumination on his subject . |
| 25 | It is a phantasmagorical performance , perfected over many years in advertising in which the prime requisite — apart from , or in spite of , talent — is to get yourself noticed , talked about and sought after . |
| 26 | I do n't think it should become too academic , it should be whatever people want at the grassroots level , we have a couple of thousand years of patriarchy behind us and we 're not going to change things overnight . |
| 27 | The exigencies of war were such that those with long years of service to their name ( and there were probably more of them in the fifteenth than in the fourteenth century ) almost inevitably found themselves in positions of command . |
| 28 | Lenny Henry , Victoria Wood and Harry Enfield have special shows and Bruce Forsyth celebrates 50 years in showbusiness with his friends . |
| 29 | Four members of ETA 's " Madrid commando " , José Ignacio de Juana , Antonio Troitiño Arranz , Inmaculada Noble and Iñés del Río Prada , were sentenced on Nov. 29 to 348 years in total for their part in the murder of three Army officers , including Ricardo Sáenz de Inestrillas , in June 1986 [ see p. 34825 ] ; one other , Estebán Estebán Nieto , was acquitted . |
| 30 | After ten years of service to her company , the Fibre Boards Africa Ltd ( FAL ) , the author became a victim as the men in authority conspired and dismissed her . |