Example sentences of "[adj] years [prep] [noun] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I studied mathematics for some years at school and I have not totally forgotten all of them . |
| 2 | And you know some years in advance if you 're in a secondary school erm that the total secondary school population is going to drop by , say , erm fifteen per cent in the next five years or whatever it might be . |
| 3 | To be fair most of us were P C's for quite a few years without radios and we worked out extremely well did n't we , without those radios |
| 4 | I know if I get into trouble again I 'll be done for the arson charge and breach of probation , and that means a few years in jail and I could n't handle it . |
| 5 | AMAN jailed for 12 years for robbery after he was picked out on an identity parade because of his ‘ frightening , evil , and sadistic eyes ’ , was cleared by the Court of Appeal in London yesterday . |
| 6 | His father died suddenly when he was only 12 years of age and he had an early baptism of public life , being prominent in Scottish affairs while still in his teens . |
| 7 | ‘ And I 'm fifty-six years of age and I say what of it , ’ Malachi retorted . |
| 8 | Cardus ' current heroic status is a far cry from his early years in GPs when his name became a by-word for crashing . |
| 9 | My Lord by way of facts the first named plaintiff Mr is now er fifty eight years of age and he and his wife live in Brentwood er both are named as plaintiffs because their joint monies were expended in the purchase of the , this business and they were both parties to the purchase erm but it is clear that Mr in fact did all the negotiations for the purchase and the planning and the running of this business and he is er the prime witness on behalf of the plaintiff . |
| 10 | A woman alleged to have sewn the flag was sentenced to eight years in prison and her husband , who led the ceremony , to 20 years . |
| 11 | ‘ But it was three-and-a-half years in development and nobody could foresee at the start what the economy would be like now . |
| 12 | Erm again for those people have to be ov over fifty years of age and we operate in the maximum enhancement er provision . |
| 13 | By then , he says , ‘ we had done 1.5 years of study and we were saying , what the hell are we going to do with this ? |
| 14 | Marguerite Maury was 73 years of age when she died . |
| 15 | ‘ York had applied for reelection three times in the four previous years before Denis and I joined the club . |
| 16 | In addition to his studies in Cambridge and London he had spent three years at Edinburgh and one in the University of Glasgow . |
| 17 | 18 LATE NEWS You will be sorry to hear that 's husband died suddenly at home after many years of ill-health and we send our heartfelt sympathy to and her family . |
| 18 | The experience curve itself was developed from the concept of the learning curve , which had been used for many years in industries where it was observed that labour time fell as the workforce accumulated experience in producing more of a particular type of unit . |
| 19 | Indecent material may only be displayed in licensed sex shops which have no window display and can not be seen into from the street , do not admit people under 18 years of age and which carry a warning sign to this effect over the door . |
| 20 | I was er four I left the school at fourteen years of age and I was down the pit the following day . |
| 21 | EGYPT — cruise the Nile , soak up the sun and take in 5,000 years of history as you visit the famous sights . |
| 22 | The rest had been so well prepared for work by their previous sixteen years of socialisation that they found few problems . |
| 23 | Edward VI had n't reached sixteen years of age before he died , in July 1553 , and for just nine days Lady Jane Grey was considered to be Queen Jane , but the country was not prepared to accept her as Queen . |
| 24 | Batty , who watched Blackburn 's disappointing goalless home League Cup draw with third division Shrewsbury Tuesday night , added : ‘ I have enjoyed eight good years at Leeds but I can see that Blackburn intend to go places . |
| 25 | But it was two long years of disappointment before she conceived . |
| 26 | The leaders of the British jazz-funk explosion in the early '80s had ten hit albums in their 11 years with Polydor and their old contract still had another six albums to run . |
| 27 | Our educational decline means that the bottom 40% of the ability range of school pupils receive much less benefit from 11 years of education than their counterparts in such countries as Germany . |
| 28 | If I went out at the age of 68 at Drury Lane to celebrate Rory Bremner 's 50 years in showbusiness and I had n't got my pyjamas on , somebody would shout ‘ Where 's your pyjamas ’ ? ’ |
| 29 | You must have served five years [ two after membership ] in a legal office and be 25 years of age before you become eligible to become a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives . |
| 30 | They managed to save him , giving him ten more years of life until he died aged fifty-nine in 1984 . |