Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun] [adv] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | is that we 've been involved in health strategy for the past over five years . |
| 2 | The agreement provided for the repayment over 10 years ( with an initial five-year grace period ) of ( i ) all interest and principal falling due between July 1 , 1988 , and Dec. 31 , 1989 , amounting to USdollars 685,000,000 ; and ( ii ) 80 per cent of principal outstanding from the 1983-88 period , amounting to dollars 255,000,000 . |
| 3 | By 1980 , after the first two out of a total of four literacy campaigns , the illiteracy rate for the population over fifteen years old had been brought down to 72.2 per cent from 93 per cent at independence . |
| 4 | If Brunel 's scheme had been adopted , what would have been the effect on the plans for the BCR nearly twenty years later ? |
| 5 | All that she really learned about him was that yes , he was a psychiatrist — ‘ one of the dissertation writers ’ , as he referred to himself-and that his wife had died after an illness about five years before . |
| 6 | Speaking of the event almost fifty years later , Wordsworth said that both he and his sister retained ‘ the liveliest possible image ’ of Coleridge in that moment , and Coleridge himself regarded the warmth with which he was received at Racedown as a standard against which all other greetings could be measured and found to fall short . |
| 7 | Waugh had seen the opportunities of the conte almost twenty years earlier than Orwell ; but he had exhausted his interest before war broke out in 1939 , so that Brideshead and the Sword of Honour trilogy are firmly planted in a revived realistic tradition . |
| 8 | NEC hopes to ship 30 of the things over three years , and research institutes are the target market . |
| 9 | NEC hopes to ship 30 of the things over three years , and research institutes are the target market . |
| 10 | The weights are determined from the results of the annual Family Expenditure Survey which covers about 7,000 households selected from all parts of the UK : each member of the household over sixteen years of age is asked to provide information on his or her spending behaviour over a period of a fortnight and also to describe any longer-term expenditures . |
| 11 | On Dec. 24 , 1990 , the Cabinet approved a restructuring of the army over five years which would reduce military service progressively from 12 to eight months and personnel from 82,000 to 66,000 ; forces in Germany would be reduced from the current 22,000 to 3,500 by the end of 1995 . |
| 12 | By examining the coverage of the war over 20 years , Mr Wyatt convincingly disputes this view . |
| 13 | The Palestinians deepest fear that their cause an independent Palestine was lost in world politics was just one reason for the launch of the Intifada nearly three years ago . |
| 14 | I speak as a representative who came into the House as a result of the murder just 10 years ago of the then Member for Belfast , South . |
| 15 | For us the fertilizer business has been a good business , in many parts of the world over many years , and even its downturns have been of fairly limited duration . |
| 16 | This started from the premiss that fundamental changes in the nature of government and politics since the foundation of the WEA over fifty years earlier fully justified the Association in redefining its aims . |
| 17 | These twin discoveries were a fitting reward for more than 800 lonely hours of patient patrolling of the skies over six years . |
| 18 | Joanne O'Haire , from Ballybofey , was out of the game nearly two years with a Gazza-style knee injury that threatened to leave her crippled . |
| 19 | Er if you fully fund a TESSA at nine thousand , we 'd estimate around eleven to twelve thousand back , and not the sixteen thousand that was projected at the top of the cycle about three years ago . |
| 20 | Renberg and Hellberg ( 1982 ) , for example , analysed diatom assemblages in lake sediment cores in south-west Sweden and found that since deglaciation of the area about 12,500 years ago , the pH of the lakes had decreased from about 7 to about 6 due to natural long-term oligotrophication and acidification . |
| 21 | To place a finger into the vagina of a girl under 16 years is an indecent assault as there can be no consent to indecent assault under 16 years ( R v McCormack [ 1969 ] 2 QB 442 ) . |
| 22 | Briar Cottage no longer seemed like home ; like the cottage where eleven years earlier she had been born . |
| 23 | It is traditional in the computer field ( insofar as the term " traditional " has a meaning for a subject only thirty years old ) to refer to four generations of computers , according to the electronic technology out of which the control and data manipulation units are constructed . |
| 24 | When I received an answer from a Mrs Fairfax , who wanted a governess for a girl under ten years old , I accepted , with the permission of the new headmistress of Lowood . |
| 25 | ‘ Yeah , I picked it up for a song about twelve years ago . |
| 26 | By the time Tiphook arrived on the stock market , it already had impressive turnover and profits for a company only seven years off the starting blocks ; the following year it made £2.4 million profit on sales of £25 million . |
| 27 | I recently lost three stone in weight and wondered how else I could improve myself and I was lucky in that I had had a mastectomy for a cancer about seven years ago , so I went ahead and had breast reconstruction . |
| 28 | Sue Hill was 35 when she started looking for a job nearly two years ago . |
| 29 | An example of this is the general manager of the Cardiff store , who started out as a cook just five years ago . |
| 30 | Contacts with the Cuban embassy were good at that time , with the revolution just six years old . |