Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] year [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | for about five or six years till the house goes up and then . |
| 2 | Rod , yes I agree with Don , I think if you look at er what the work has gone in er in the fifth year for the last two or three years and the way that subject teachers are now approaching ranks of achievement I do n't see yes it 's . |
| 3 | Because the average age at which cows begin to show signs of BSE is four to five years , it was estimated that the disease would start to die out four or five years after the source of infection was removed . |
| 4 | Specific schemes differ in their elements : for some final salary may be the best of the last three or five years or the average , or may be based on earnings as opposed to salary . |
| 5 | Younger first time buyers would find such a scheme an unnecessary burden since , presuming that they retired at the standard age , they would have to continue paying their mortgage for 30 or 40 years before the pension plan matured to pay it off . |
| 6 | We often find it takes three or four years before a youth is used to a regular life once more . |
| 7 | In the mid-1990s , object-oriented programming promises to bring the next irresistible revolution , but until that happens , no-one should be too surprised if the mass of desktop users splits into two camps , one that goes down the Unix-with-everything route , the other that decides as a matter of policy to remain in the ‘ do n't know ’ came , judging MS-DOS with a touch of Windows here and there to be good enough for the next three or four years until the picture of the future becomes a bit clearer . |
| 8 | The degree of BMus requires three years of study , or four years if a student reads for honours . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's the first time I 've run the distance indoors for six or seven years and the object of the race was to hurt myself , ’ said the 28-year-old Lucozade Motherwell club member . |
| 10 | As far as the capital receipt money goes , not all , it 's not been possible to spend all of that this year because the development of some of these urban traffic calming schemes is actually very complicated and we 've had to re-think some of them . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | No proceedings may be commenced more than 10 years after the producer supplied the product . |
| 13 | Thus it happened that in November 1989 , more than six years after the matter had first come to light , he was charged with two offences of offering an advantage to Mr. Turner , contrary to the Prevention of Bribery Ordinance ( Laws of Hong Kong , 1987 rev. , c. 201 ) . |
| 14 | THE Royal Ordnance Factory at Leeds yesterday delivered to the British Army the first production version of the Challenger tank , less than three years after the Ministry of Defence ordered the vehicle.The army is receiving more than 200 Challengers , costing about £300 million , to beef up its defences in Germany against Soviet tanks . |
| 15 | It is now more than 25 years since the caesium atomic clock was first used to define the second , replacing the earlier definition based on astronomical observations of the mean solar day . |
| 16 | The Inner House of the Scottish Court of Sessions has held that the Prescription and Limitations ( Scotland ) Act 1973 ( the Act ) did not exclude the Crown 's claim to interest on overdue tax that related to a period more than five years before the Crown had acted to recover the tax and interest thereon ( see Lord Advocate v Butt and others [ 1992 ] STI 169 ) . |
| 17 | There appears to be no significant risk to women who take it for less than five years but the risk does increase slightly between five and ten years , and taking it for more than 15 years gives a higher risk still . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The first turbine-powered airliner to carry fare-paying passengers , it is now more than 40 years since the prototype Vickers Viscount flew . |
| 20 | Visually Melton remains a railway centre even more than twenty years after the railway went . |
| 21 | Though the outcome of the battle is not recorded , Wulfhere 's premature death ( in his mid-thirties ) that same year and the inability of Aethelred , his brother and successor ( HE V , 24 ) , to maintain Wulfhere 's southern hegemony enabled the kings of the western Saxons to survive without further serious dismemberment of their territory . |
| 22 | The need for insolvency at the relevant time does not apply to transactions at an undervalue entered into less than two years before the individual is adjudged bankrupt . |
| 23 | By February 1969 , Hello , Dolly ! was ready for screening , but the Broadway production was still running and it looked as if it might be more than two years before the film could be shown . |
| 24 | Despite this it was to be less than two years before the Party adopted the idea of the " People 's Front " in its entirety , including the help of Liberals and even of Conservatives who were opposed to the National Government . |
| 25 | IT IS more than 20 years since the novelist C P Snow delivered his Rede Lecture , The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution , and 20 since F R Leavis delivered his swingeing assault on Snow , which made the whole thing a subject of violent controversy , adding somewhat to the gaiety of that small part of the nation interested in academic ding-dong . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The cardboard mostly rotted away , but they 've been in the ground for no more than 20 years and the bomb experts say they 're not military . |
| 28 | A special Oxford version of Handel 's Messiah is being performed , almost two hundred and fifty years after the Hallelujah Chorus was first heard in Britain . |
| 29 | And ten years after the kiosk starred in Bill Forsyth 's film Local Hero it still acts like a magnet for hundreds of fans drawn to the Buchan village of Pennan . |
| 30 | No one has yet solved the problem of what to do with it — turning it into glass chips is the latest idea , but engineers have to wait between 30 and 50 years until the waste has cooled down sufficiently enough for the process to take place . |