Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [adj] years [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two Police houses have been empty for five years after officers moved out because of attacks . |
| 2 | Fresh cheeses have become much more popular in recent years and cows ' and goats ' milk varieties are now available in most good supermarkets . |
| 3 | The record was anyway there : three world championships , twenty-seven grand prix wins — a record that remained untouched for fourteen years until Alain Prost finally beat it — and a meteoric career . |
| 4 | Mortgage rates are now at their lowest for 25 years and UK incomes have risen by 50pc since 1987 , although the rate of growth has been considerably slower in Northern Ireland . |
| 5 | He ran out of money and had to sell off 40% of his company , and only after six to seven years and scores of design failures did he finally begin to make some money from his enterprise . |
| 6 | The pub has been largely unchanged for 100 years but owners Bass took advantage of development planned in the next door antiques market to announce a drastic redevelopment . |
| 7 | IT HAS become clear these past few years that London 's investment houses are rather worse at managing their own affairs than their clients ' . |
| 8 | Contraceptive precautions should be continued until a woman has a period or any bleeding for two years if ages 45–50 , and for one year if over 50 . |
| 9 | Alvaro Cunhal , 79 , resigned on Dec. 4 after 32 years as secretary-general of the Portuguese Communist Party and was appointed head of the party 's new national council ; Carlos Carvalhas was elected as his successor . |
| 10 | This proved useful in later years as Minton would occasionally ask him to help out with a design . |
| 11 | The World Wide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) recently claimed that tigers would be extinct within 10 years unless governments did more to protect them [ see ED 69 ] . |
| 12 | TIMES may have been tough in recent years but matters have come to a fine pass when this distinguished theatre feels obliged to assemble a posse of actresses and two actors to perform what is basically a rather vulgar sketch and present it as a front length drama . |
| 13 | ( 1980 ) found that children who maintained their improved weight one to three years after treatment had higher levels of exercise than peers who failed to do so . |
| 14 | If you are sent to prison for up to six months , you have to wait seven years ; a fine is wiped clean after five years and probation or conditional discharge takes one year . |
| 15 | The Awards are valid for five years and holders are entitled to fly the Award flag ( or both flags if they score a double ) at their premises . |
| 16 | The amendments included an increase in the maximum duration of joint ventures from 20 to 70 years and authorization of the opening of overseas bank accounts by joint venture companies ; in addition tax concessions already provided to joint ventures were extended to selected wholly foreign-owned investment projects . |