Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] year [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 We often find it takes three or four years before a youth is used to a regular life once more .
2 The degree of BMus requires three years of study , or four years if a student reads for honours .
3 The Russian ambassador in Kiev has described Ukrainian independence to other diplomats there as a temporary phenomenon , unlikely to last more than another year and a half .
4 Patients had to have had insulin treated diabetes mellitus for more than five years and a history of altered awareness of hypoglycaemia within three months of transferring to human insulin .
5 Mr Huxley Jones , of Fairlands Crescent , Rhuddlan , who was a branch manager with a plumbing supplies firm , has been pastoral steward at the local English Methodist Church for more than 20 years and a driver for the local meals-on-wheels service for eight years .
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