Example sentences of "[adj] years [subord] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to one Whitehall source , if present trends continue , the case could take up to six years before a final decision is delivered . |
| 2 | It was not until 1950 ( three years after a similar set had been commissioned in America ) that the BEA decided to go for some of these gains from larger scale by ordering an advanced 100MW set for 1955 . |
| 3 | The alternative was to wait a further two or three years until a civil case could reach a hearing in the overcrowded Northern Ireland courts and then to endeavour to fight it with the state using against him the formidable privileges and stratagems available to it . |
| 4 | And it would be another 55 years before an Australian team paused much longer than to browse the bazaars , while the nations have met just once in Test cricket on the island , in 1983 . |
| 5 | It was 8 years before a new bridge was completed beside the remains of the old , the stumps of which can still be seen . |
| 6 | The Princess , dressed simply in a white blouse and dark skirt , was draped with crimson flower garlands as she flew over Mount Everest in a helicopter , 40 years after a British-sponsored expedition became the first to reach the summit of the world 's highest mountain.As she flew past the snowy peak a relative of a Nepalese climber who accompanied Sir Edmund Hillary up Everest in 1953 was leading a seven-member Australian team up the mountain.Although the Princess did not see any climbers she told fellow passengers aboard her Super Puma helicopter that she had a wonderful time seeing the mountain through clear skies . |
| 7 | When the Islamic authorities discovered this , he was charged with heresy , refused to recant , and was crucified in Kano market place thirty years before a Christian preacher arrived in the country . |
| 8 | It is now over thirty years since an individual minister was forced by the House of Commons to resign . |
| 9 | Their apparatus was primitive and they could not control the reaction , so it was another two years before a different team took up the work again . |
| 10 | It is not two years since a rag-tag group of about 200 men , few of them daring to wear their Soviet uniforms , gathered in the Kiev building that housed a short-lived nationalist government in 1917–18 , to found the Ukrainian Officers Union . |
| 11 | The torpedo can sit unattended on the sea bed for two years until an underwater sound-signal tells it to rise to the surface . |
| 12 | Distribution problems have probably caused more deaths from starvation in recent years than an actual shortage of food . |
| 13 | SHIPPING giant ACL today pledged to stick with Liverpool at least for the next four years after a new contract was hammered out between the Swedish-owned company and Mersey Docks and Harbour Company . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's been 20 years since a British player was top of the pile . |