Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [adj] years [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will state the amounts of Exchequer revenue raised from value added tax in each of the years 1978-79 , 1986-87 and 1990-91 ; and indicate what percentage of total Exchequer revenue raised in each of these years these figures constituted . |
| 2 | Kate and Paul reach a watershed : married for three years new home with two floors and a small back garden , Kate is thirty-one , has become critically aware of the Biological Clock . |
| 3 | With turnover having been so sluggish for two years some works at the Biennale had been déjà vu at other fairs . |
| 4 | Ernest Atcheson , 46 , of Matilda Gardens , and Noel Nelson , 34 , of Majestic Drive , were jailed for six years ; Alister Tait , of Utility Street , was sentenced to five years ; Robert Cooper , 26 , of Runnymede Parade and Colin Lindsay , 25 , of Kilwarlin Crescent were each jailed for three years last Tuesday . |
| 5 | Section 137 of the 1984 Act provides that " every lessee to whom there is delivered any summons issued from a county court for the recovery of land held by him … shall forthwith give notice to his lessor … if a lessee fails to give notice he shall be liable to forfeit to the person of whom he hold the land an amount equal to three years improved rent of the land " . |
| 6 | In the past five to ten years general interest in the deep structure of fold belts has led to the publication of the results of a number of seismic reflection surveys from around the world which provide useful analogues . |
| 7 | John Chalcraft saw this happen and must have wondered a thing or two after 50 years personal involvement . |
| 8 | effective for two to five years copper IUDs , depending on type , or longer plastic IUDs . |
| 9 | However well you treat them , after two to three years these foliage begonias lose their compact appearance and look straggly . |
| 10 | It is precisely among the eighteen to twenty-five years old electorate , which urgently needs to be won over to the Socialist cause before next year 's parliamentary elections , that Lang is the most popular Minister of the decade . |
| 11 | His first wife christened Emily , affectionately and universally known as Pem died on Christmas Day 1988 after 53 years happy marriage . |