Example sentences of "year [coord] a " in BNC.

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1 There are differing views about whether three years or a single year period would be better or worse .
2 Or twelve that 's either two years or a year between them .
3 The pressure came from John McFall , a Labour home affairs spokesman , who put forward an amendment to the Carrying of Knives etc ( Scotland ) Bill calling for the planned six-month jail sentence or fine of up to £1,000 to be increased to two years or an unlimited fine .
4 ‘ Rigour , dedication , personal sacrifice over 15 long years and a belief in quality produce earned 70% of those three Michelin stars .
5 The proposal also included an offer to reduce the price of supplies in real terms over the first five years and a pledge that during the contract period prices would remain ‘ within the general movement of prices in the economy ’ .
6 About 150 former squadron members attended the official banquet ( I had earlier been asked to propose the Toast the the Squadron ) , there was a Squadron Parade , the dedication of a cairn to mark the 50 years and a flypast of present day aircraft .
7 After only eighteen months breathing the dust of the docks , Ramsey taught for six years and a half in a greenhouse .
8 On average it works out at about once every five years and a cost of many hundreds of pounds per fish .
9 There was a gradual rise during the NADOR years and a gradual decline during the three years since RIDDOR was introduced .
10 A late Victorian at sixty could look forward to scarcely a dozen more years of life ; a contemporary sixty-year-old man can expect almost twenty more years and a woman even more .
11 The firm traded there for many years and a number of well-known craftsmen served their apprenticeships at the works .
12 It was the worst mine explosion in 20 years and a culmination of a series of explosions caused by the owners , eagerness to bring out coal from the crept workings .
13 ACID rain has been a topic in the pages of this magazine for years and a frequent one recently .
14 Concrete plans are now afoot for the beleaguered company to produce its most keenly awaited car , its most radical design for 30 years and a probable lifesaver .
15 The Elgin district was surveyed in 3 years and a descriptive memoir published .
16 By 1.30am it was all over , four more years and a large carry out to be bitterly consumed .
17 One example is ‘ 6000 Years and a Book ’ by Guenther Wegener , which is about the development of the Bible .
18 Chris Wells , above , of Project Office Furniture , said Mr Lamont 's tax planning over the next three years and a resolution to reduce public borrowing should settle business nerves .
19 His mother had been concerned about his weight for nearly three years and a previous admission for investigation of the cause had found nothing organically wrong .
20 Jessie Hewitt , a childminder for 30 years and a regional director of the National Childminding Association , is well aware of the urgent need for a national registration system for all child carers .
21 Philip Larkin had already published two novels — Jill ( 1946 ) and A Girl in Winter ( 1947 ) — before he established himself in 1955 , with The Less Deceived , as the best poet of his generation ; and John Osborne 's first play ever to reach the public theatre , Look Back in Anger ( 1956 ) , was written by an actor untouched by academia who had been writing for several years and a stranger to all of them .
22 This rediscovery has come through historical exhibitions held recently at New York 's DIA Center for the Arts ( 1988–89 ) , Claude Berri 's RENN Espace d'Art Contemporain in Paris ( 1991–92 ) and at the Hallen für Neue Kunst , Schaffhausen , where Ryman 's art has been prominently featured for several years and a fresh installation opens shortly ( 2 May-31 October ) .
23 Two years and a historical event passed before Jack Elliot and Harold Farrington made the first commercial flights in Curtiss Jennies , on March 3 , 1926 .
24 In the 1960s teacher training was extended to three years and a B Ed degree replaced the teaching certificate .
25 They did , however , continue to offer exceptionally generous hire purchase terms on cookers : one Board , for example , offered repayments over ten years and a free parts and replacement service over that period .
26 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 .
27 Even so , a 65-year-old male can expect to live for another 13.2 years and a female of the same age for 17.2 years .
28 Yet with a gap of two years and a change of players from the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment to Kuijken 's own group , La Petite Bande , come differences which weigh significantly against the new issue .
29 A case comes to hand of two children , a boy of 8 years and a 10-year-old girl , who broke into their local school and ‘ then completely wrecked the school furnishings ’ , and this was not the only instance of vandalism and arson in schools .
30 In 1986 this was reduced to seven years and a sliding scale was introduced to determine the amount of tax paid .
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