Example sentences of "[noun sg] until [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Copyright exists in a musical work until fifty years after the end of the year in which the songwriter dies . |
| 2 | David , of Brooks Hall Road , Ipswich , did some modelling work until two years ago when cancer was diagnosed . |
| 3 | The panoramic grandeur of the place seemed a world away from New York , which had been his home until two years before . |
| 4 | Most East Anglican villages had a working windmill up to the beginning of this century , and many mills continued to grind corn until recent years . |
| 5 | There has been some difference of opinion as to what that case decided , but there is no dispute that the court held that the postponement of the consultation process with the Lord Chief Justice and the trial judge until three years after sentence was unlawful , and that it should take place as soon as possible after conviction . |
| 6 | The Duchess of Kent did not receive the GCVO until sixteen years after her marriage , the Duchess of Gloucester received hers last year after seventeen years . |
| 7 | Very little seems to have come of the initiative until five years later , when the Treasury created something along these lines for the Conservative Chancellor , R. A. Butler , as part of an examination of spending on the social services . |
| 8 | June Thomas was an engineering draughtswoman until three years ago , and still does a full-time job . |
| 9 | Although Permutit was not adopted as the company name until some years later , it was in fact Permutit 's forebear who installed the very first ion exchange water softner in the UK in 1911 at Burrill 's Wharf in London 's docklands . |
| 10 | Make it clear that you have taken in details by phrasing questions along the lines of , ‘ I 've looked at your educational record which seems excellent but could you perhaps tell me why you did not pass maths until two years after your other 0 levels/changed schools halfway through A levels/took a year off while doing your degree ? ’ |
| 11 | In the primary levels ( two cycles of three years from age six to eleven ) , numbers enrolled showed a decline in the years after 1975 and did not return to the 1975 level until ten years later . |
| 12 | After a period of slower rise until 10,500 years ago , corresponding to a time known as the Younger Dryas — when ice sheets temporarily advanced again in the Northern hemisphere — a second burst of accelerated sea-level risk took place , at rates similar to the previous acceleration . |
| 13 | The other is a large stone-built and stone-tiled building and still in regular use until recent years . |
| 14 | The quality of passionate and intelligent realism he could bring to a part was not in demand until many years later . |
| 15 | By AD 500 , there were probably bananas in Madagascar , imported from Asia , though some authorities believe Madagascar was not in effect colonized by man until 500 years after that . |
| 16 | Well the , the bed , there were no spring beds in , that came into my life until many years after , were the old straw palliasses , which were really more hygienic to sleep on than your spring beds , because you get the lumbar trouble with a straw palliasses cos it was just hip firm , I give you an instance I used to , as I was growing older I used to fold my trousers and put them under the mattress to press my trousers so I 'd always got a nice crease in my trousers , they were so solid that er you got y you did n't even get any wrinkles in your trousers in those days . |
| 17 | Divorcee Cheryl coped with her illness until six years ago when she began to deteriorate . |
| 18 | After the children grew up , the stories remained in a drawer until three years ago when Mr Driscoll , who owned a mail order business , decided to publish them . |
| 19 | After all , this World Cup did not get on the road until two years before the event . |
| 20 | Active inquiries were suspended and the file crept farther and farther down the heap until two years after Inez Glynn 's disappearance , it had drifted down to archives . |
| 21 | The Council will not normally consider any such application until five years have elapsed from the date of the expulsion and the Council will only consider any such application on its facts and merits . |
| 22 | The econometric counterpart of the much elaborated system was the vast array of empirical models of the economy which have enjoyed undisputed popularity until recent years . |
| 23 | According to Institute statistics , it was almost unheard of for a member to go into an IVA until two years ago , but in 1991 23 IVAs were reported , last year the number soared to 56 , and by half way through January , the 1993 total was already into double figures . |
| 24 | After his brother , Robert , bishop of Chichester , was dismissed as chancellor in December 1340 the king resolved to do without clerical ministers and no other cleric held the office until five years had passed . |
| 25 | It was not in fact until ten years after Ho 's conversion to communism that the Indochina Communist Party itself was formed in 1930 . |
| 26 | Janice said ‘ Basically it means deferring any dismantling of the irradiated or contaminated plant until 35 years after station closure , so that when the time comes for removal , its level of activity will have diminished further , the dose rate for staff involved in dismantling will be much reduced . |
| 27 | I could n't let myself feel the pain until many years later and with the pain came anger . |