Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] year [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think their is a problem with the first two or three years of a business ' life . |
| 2 | It takes some 5 or 6 years for a nest to produce sexual insects , so that it would appear that the complete defoliation of the immediate area or the removal of the more palatable species would lead to deteriorating conditions for the ants . |
| 3 | Let it be supposed that according to the usual methods of borrowing and funding , the Public Debts , during the present war , should encrease to no greater degree than they did in the last war ; which was about 30 millions : And let it be supposed , according to past experience , that in ten or twelve years after a peace ; we should be plunged into a fresh war ; which might encrease the debts of the nation 30 millions more , and that afterwards we should have another breathing time of ten or twelve years , and that according to custom a third war should ensue , no less expensive than each of the former two ; these three wars will swell the national debts to the amount of 170 millions , and that in little more than fifty years . |
| 4 | Thus it seems hardly sufficient for people to vote every four or five years at a time of a general election , the brevity of the act carrying little weight or influence . |
| 5 | Gruelling Test Procedures — A sixty-cycle three month test is used to simulate eight years of regular motoring in Northern Europe or 15 years in a city such as London . |
| 6 | It is recorded somewhat ruefully that , after years of struggle , when the Veterinarian had won its fight to get the course lengthened , students who had previously been apprenticed for three or four years to a practitioner claimed they at least ought to be able to leave the College after 12 months , and not have to stay the same period — two years — as the non-apprenticed . |
| 7 | The book is intended for undergraduates in their second or third year of a philosophy degree , but this need not necessarily deter readers with other backgrounds ; e.g. , my father claims to be able to understand it , though perhaps he would not thank me for the suggestion that he is representative . |
| 8 | An act can make a successful first LP which may have taken five or seven years for a band 's songwriters to create . |
| 9 | Two neurology departments where registries of outpatients are maintained ( Western General Hospital , Edinburgh , and Ninewells Hospital , Dundee , together serving about 20–25% of the Scottish population ) allowed scrutiny of records of patients aged less than 73 years with a diagnosis of dementia . |
| 10 | According to the French art magazine , Connaissance des Arts , the Picasso painting has belonged for more than 50 years to a collector who kept its existence secret — even from members of his family . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'd never spend more than five years in a job . |
| 12 | Brawl The pot boiled over against Wales at Cardiff Arms Park that same year in a brawl of a game that resulted in bans for Gareth Chilcott , Graham Dawe , Wade Dooley and Hill , who was blamed for failing to exercise his captaincy correctly . |
| 13 | LAST autumn , the Bank was back on television in most of Scotland for the first time in more than two years with a campaign of three commercials . |
| 14 | Ilona Staller moved to Italy when she was 17 and you would imagine that more than 20 years as a star of blue screen and stage — she had an act with a tame snake that caused concern among Italian animal-rights organisations — would have left her a little world-weary . |
| 15 | This is a law-abiding county , and this is the worst homicide case I have seen in more than 20 years as a lawyer here . ’ |
| 16 | Your working life , for this purpose , is normally considered to be 44 years for a woman and 49 years for a man ( i.e. age 16 until pension age ) , but it may be less if you were of working age but not in insurable employment when the National Insurance Scheme started in 1948 . |
| 17 | During 1990 the Appeal Court upheld prison sentences of 6 years for a confidence trickster who raised barely 1000 , 7 years for a man who obtained 36,000 using fraudulent cheques , and 12 years for a Post Office employee who defrauded his employer of 136,000 ( Guardian 29.8.90 ) . |
| 18 | During a career which spans teaching ( including a spell in Kirkwall ) and ten years as a deaconess in such areas of social and urban deprivation as Irvine and Muirhouse , Wright has come to realise her strengths lie in forging informal relationships . |
| 19 | Borrowers can choose to fix their loans for between 20 and 25 years at a rate of 11.25 per cent , or they can choose terms of three , four and five years at a fixed rate of 10.6 per cent . |
| 20 | He was sentenced to between five and 15 years after a trial which exposed the privileged lifestyle of rich New York youngsters . |
| 21 | In 1906 life expectancy at birth for a male in Britain was 48 years and 51 years for a female ; in 1985 the average expectation of life at birth was 71 and 77 years respectively ( see Figure 3.3 ) . |
| 22 | My work experience includes one year as an accounts clerk , and two years as a shop assistant in a women 's clothes shop . |
| 23 | It could not have been for lack of qualifications , for Moira had served seven years on the BBC 's General Advisory Council and four years as a director of Border Television ; so one can only assume it was because of my Liberal Party connections . |
| 24 | The ideal candidate will be a young member who has not yet completed his or her education ( probably between the second and third year of a degree course ) . |
| 25 | its alright saying twelve years , but twelve years on a scale of hundred is nothing really |