Example sentences of "[adj] year [unc] [noun sg] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | Deciding that you want to go out with someone because they happen to fit into this year 's idea of what is good looking is stupid . |
2 | The workers feel the package is derisory , particularly as they have accepted minimum wage rises over the past few years and Yarrow has at least three years ' work on its books . |
3 | As far as grants are concerned , students who apply for a place are almost certain to have used at least three years ' worth of their local authority grant entitlement while studying at university or polytechnic , and may only be eligible for a further one-year entitlement if they have been accepted at a drama school . |
4 | Bob , who is director of the Indonesian joint venture , brought more than 25 years ' experience to his session on the development of LNG in Indonesia , while Paul , manager of strategic planning , and John , finance manager for the Indonesian Region , gave comprehensive presentations of the key financial issues . |
5 | Secretaries and have outlasted most , with 38 years ' service between them . |
6 | He would stand or fall by his policies and , to prove it , he gave one year 's notice of his resignation . |
7 | I would have done anything for Charlie , and was , in fact , even now sorting out twenty years ' worth of his possessions . |
8 | Daphne Parish , a British nurse , was sentenced to 15 years ' imprisonment as his accomplice . |
9 | Two R-A-F bases with more than a hundred years ' service between them have closed as part of defence cuts . |
10 | Two infant and three junior classes cater for children from five to eleven although no class contains children with more than two years ' difference in their ages . |
11 | The data bank 's research shows that 45% of Japanese property companies have debts greater than two years ' worth of their sales and 32% have debts greater than three years of sales . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | These three chapters cover the 20 years of Jacob 's exile : 14 years ' service for his two wives , 6 for flocks of his own . |
14 | In 1851 he began four years ' apprenticeship with his uncle , Dr Owen Roberts of St Asaph , who prepared him for Edinburgh University , where he spent two years at the medical school . |
15 | Like a true professional , Floyd was determined the show would go on for New Year 's Eve at his pub , the Maltsters Arms . |
16 | Diana , having spent Christmas 1980 at Althorp , returned to London to spend New Year 's Eve with her flatmates . |
17 | May was saying , ‘ This will be the first time in years that Lucy and Jim and the bairns have n't spent New Year 's Eve with us . |
18 | ‘ One moment , please , I 've got a New Year 's present for you . ’ |
19 | Among the possible prisoners of conscience are 37 people sentenced to up to 20 years ' imprisonment for their involvement in a peaceful flag-raising ceremony in the town of Jayapura on 14 December 1988 . |
20 | The deal , which would have gone ahead whatever the election result , is Bosch 's second major investment in Britain following last year 's opening of its £100m car alternator plant in Cardiff . |
21 | last year 's individual with us he had I think he had he had five A levels of which four were grade A and one was greed B grade B. |
22 | But Mr Collin said : ‘ There is £4,500 provision in next year 's budget for our contribution towards the Neighbourhood Watch coordinator . ’ |