Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] [adj] years [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when you spend it when you 're spending your income you 're not accumulating your capital , so this person in five years time , although they 've had their income which may vary between seven and thirteen percent , their ten thousand is still ten thousand pounds , and obviously that would have devalued in real terms against inflation , which is the other problem . |
| 2 | ‘ What will Sellafield be saying about this mud in ten years time ? ’ |
| 3 | A 43 year old man with several years history of alcohol abuse and with chronic pancreatitis confirmed at endoscopic retrograde pancreatography presented in October 1990 for recrudescent epigastralgia . |
| 4 | This work is often done by an old man of many years experience . |
| 5 | ONE of top all round sportsmen retires this summer after 45 years service with the company . |
| 6 | Under any circumstances this would be difficult enough but this year Welsh local government has to suffer the commu the cumulative burden of previous years cuts . |
| 7 | His last trip in a lifeboat as a crew member was 7 June 1983 , and from that date he joined the shore crew again , retiring this year after 52 years service . |
| 8 | So if we were sitting round this table in ten years time , we would actually be talking about what was commonplace , not what was coming at some distant and far off point ? |
| 9 | Judge Furner was still presiding over the county courts at Lewes after twenty-two years , and he continued to order defaulting and mostly absent debtors to be punished by having to spend short terms in the county gaol , for some time after New Years Day 1870 . |
| 10 | " We are delighted to have been awarded full Order off Merit status on the European Tour , and the fact that we are coming to Fulford and thereby preserving an unbroken record of 20 years championship golf in this region , is equally pleasing , " said Paul Vaughan , Sponsorship Director of Whitbread & Company . |
| 11 | In another study while 33% of patients with high grade dysplasia developed cancer within six years 33% were not operated on and were alive and well five years later so not all authors have advised operation even when high grade dysplasia has been diagnosed . |
| 12 | In this series , however , one patient developed cancer after seven years disease duration so perhaps the criteria for entry should be widened . |
| 13 | Run by ex-airline couple with 30 years experience of caring for people . |
| 14 | Sir Nicholas Goodison , the group chairman , tried to soften the blow of continuing bad debt provisions by telling shareholders that there were finally some signs of economic recovery after three years thanks to the fall in interest rates and the value of sterling . |
| 15 | Led by lively frontman Steven Tyler , the band have enjoyed a remarkable resurgence in recent years thanks to the mega-selling ‘ Pump ’ album of a few years back and several hit singles , including ‘ Rag Doll ’ , ‘ Love In An Elevator ’ , ‘ Janie 's Got A Gun ’ and ‘ Livin' On The Edge ’ . |
| 16 | But what I want to know is this — how come a Pakistani hot off the banana boat can get a mortgage when a decent cop with 25 years service in the force can not ? |
| 17 | The uranium series measurements give a slightly older date of 205,000 years BP , but given that the uncertainties in each of these figures are typically 20 per cent , the two techniques can be said to agree with each other . |
| 18 | People who live near the site told appeal judge Colin Willis that music from last years event had kept them awake all night . |
| 19 | If the present population is eighty three percent calculate the planned population in five years time . |
| 20 | Ive been reliably informed that we have drawn SUNDERLAND in the 2nd round of this years littlewoods cup . |
| 21 | As a buoyed-up Blues strode towards their first championship in four years Martin Bayly , another southerner , joined the ranks . |
| 22 | Jimmy Carter 's presidency , like that of Gerald Ford , began on an optimistic note with commentators deriving satisfaction from the fact that for the first time for eight years president and Congress would be in the hands of the same party . |
| 23 | FOR the first time in 15 years Jim Reilly will this afternoon be missing from Cavan 's championship side . |
| 24 | For the first time in twenty-three years Galerie Franck & Schulte is once more presenting new works by the American Richard Artschwager , who took part in Documenta . |
| 25 | For the first time in several years Eva found herself taking stock of her own life , realising it fell far short of the wonder and beauty of the life of Christ , and recognising she was heading in the wrong direction . |
| 26 | In addition he served with great distinction in the Edinburgh Eye Infirmary and , having reached the statutory rule of fifteen years service , ‘ retired ’ from the Royal Infirmary to become the first surgeon to the Royal Hospital for Sick Children . |
| 27 | No — perhaps not , I 'll reserve my views on his ability to manage after we 've played Arsenil again and the big match on New Years day . |
| 28 | In that country for many years organisation at the social , cultural and political level was founded upon a system of ideological blocs . |
| 29 | He told Alf Minns , 64 , a chargehand at CSE and the company 's longest-serving employee with 50 years service , he was hopeful that the contract would come to Darlington . |
| 30 | He knew the wording by heart : Attempt to export equipment with intent to evade prohibition then in farce by the Provision of the Export Control and Goods Order and C & E Management Act ( Section 68/2 ) , 1979 … and he knew that the offence carried a maximum sentence of seven years imprisonment … |