Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adv] [subord] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although a vineyard thus cultivated always appears to contain vines of no more than three years of age , they do of course all issue from their parent plants , thus a ‘ pre-phylloxera ’ vine nowadays will be either three or eighty years old , depending upon how it is viewed . |
| 2 | Josselin was a clergyman throughout the more than forty years covered by the diary and this , above all , gave his life its shape . |
| 3 | The marriage of James 's son James IV to Margaret Tudor , from which the Stewart claim to the English throne derived , came about more because of pressure from Henry VII than from any Scottish enthusiasm ; and the Treaty of Perpetual Peace which accompanied it would last for no more than eleven years , collapsing because James could not sustain his obligations to both France and England when Henry VIII joined the pope 's grotesquely named Holy League against France . |
| 4 | The cardboard mostly rotted away , but they 've been in the ground for no more than 20 years and the bomb experts say they 're not military . |
| 5 | Probably best remembered of all , though , were the Larry O'Hooligan cartoons , which ran in the ‘ Pink ’ for no less than 63 years ( 1898–1961 ) . |
| 6 | What is worse , the part of the fuel market to which I have referred will be closed to competition for no less than 15 years , because the only way to obtain the gas is to sign a binding 15-year contract . |
| 7 | However , even if 10 years ' worth of rights from an old company pension scheme are commuted to no more than two years ' worth in your new one , it could still be worth accepting , particularly if your new job is likely to produce rapid pay rises . |
| 8 | Voters also overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment which would limit state legislators to no more than 12 years in office . |
| 9 | A building adapted or retained in its totality can have many lives ; keeping just the facade might prolong its life by no more than twenty years . |