Example sentences of "year and [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does my hon. Friend agree that those figures reflect a sharp improvement in this country over the past few years and scope for some of our Community partners to do more to encourage unleaded petrol sales ? |
| 2 | For me , however , circumstances have changed somewhat since my first love affair with the States and my fascination has taken on a maturity that matches my years and experiences on the North American continent . |
| 3 | The flight of Asil Nadir on May 4th has destroyed the fraud case it spent more than two years and oodles of money building against him . |
| 4 | Guests saw how the plant has been upgraded over recent years and capacity increased from 45,000 to 70,000 tonnes . |
| 5 | For most of the post-war period the economy has been brought to a ‘ stop ’ every two or three years and managers have had to lay men off . |
| 6 | Fords and bridge sites often change little over the years and Watkins cites several examples of leys crossing rivers at fords . |
| 7 | Leith has been the scene of many interesting events and developments over the years and proof of this can still be seen today in some of the old buildings and narrow streets , and to a lesser extent , in the docks . |
| 8 | Raper was jailed for two years and Allen for six months , Sir Nicolas saying it was one of the most serious contempts he had ever come across . |
| 9 | Follow up irrespective of exclusion was equivalent in the two groups ( non-adenoidectomy cases mean ( SD ) 7.0 ( 2.5 ) years and adenoidectomy cases 7.2 ( 2.6 ) years ; p=0.7 ) . |
| 10 | As the right hon. Gentleman knows , I was Chief Secretary for two years and Chancellor for one year . |
| 11 | They believe that the Treasury-held view that a 12% devaluation will translate into 4% extra inflation over two years and 12% extra inflation ( the full impact of the trade-weighted devaluation to date ) over four years is , given the present economic background , highly exaggerated . |
| 12 | The WORST Californian February weather for 80 years and LA has a rotten head cold . |
| 13 | What we do know is that , in the United Kingdom , men who reach 60 have a further life expectancy of 16.8 years and women have a further life expectancy of 21.2 years . |
| 14 | Rachel Douglas ( left ) has been with Sekers for 19 years and Diane Madine for 17 years . |
| 15 | Yet Iraq has been acquiring German weapons for years and Germany is now pledging , for the umpteenth time , finally to block the holes in its arms-export controls . |
| 16 | Nearly 100,000 TR6s were built over the next 7 years and 90% went to America , where it caught on as a winner on road and track . |
| 17 | Nearly 100,000 TR6s were built over the next 7 years and 90% went to America , where it caught on as a winner on road and track . |
| 18 | The factory had lost £10m in five years and Timex despaired of making it profitable by world standards . |
| 19 | The more conspicuous results of this were the Centre Pompidou and the Musée d'Orsay ; a law of 1978 earmarked FFr363 million over 1978–82 for the the latter out of a total FFr1.407 billion to all museums , representing a five-fold increase relative to the previous five years and 64% of the total budget for culture . |
| 20 | John Browning , the farmer on whose land the twelve statuettes were found , has spent the past ten years and £100,000 in pursuit of the bronzes . |
| 21 | If the maximum of £20 a month is saved , this will be worth £1,480 after five years and £1,760 after seven years . |
| 22 | Federal US prosecutors say that a former partner at Frost & Sullivan has been indicted for allegedly trading on inside information stolen from the law firm of Skadden , Arps , Slate , Meagher & Flom : Michael Borlinghaus was indicted for allegedly receiving the non-public information from an IBM Corp executive and the allegation is that Borlinghaus , his friend and neighbour Leonard Bellezza , and others traded on the information ; he faces a possible maximum prison term of 20 years and fines of more than $1m if he is convicted of the offence . |
| 23 | Due to be sentenced on June 11 , Poindexter faced a maximum prison term of 25 years and fines of up to $1,250,000 . |
| 24 | A court in Paris on March 6 sentenced the five crew members of the Eksund , a Panamanian-registered ship seized by French customs in October 1987 off Brittany carrying 150 tonnes of weapons [ see p. 36238 ] , to prison sentences of between five and seven years and fines totalling £3,540,000 for arms trafficking . |
| 25 | The law , one of the most draconian in the country , provided for prison sentences of up to 10 years and fines of up to $100,000 for doctors who performed illegal abortions . |
| 26 | Doctors performing illegal abortion were liable to prison sentences of up to 10 years and fines of up to $100,000 . |
| 27 | The measures include mandatory jail sentences of between one and twenty years and fines of up to 500,000 ringgit ( US$185,000 ) . |
| 28 | a share which pays an annual dividend of 10p which is expected to grow by 6% p.a. for the next 10 years and 4% p.a. thereafter . |
| 29 | About this time , Vermuyden vanished from public life , although it was not until 1677 that he died , full of years and riches , and was buried in St Margaret 's , Westminster . |
| 30 | They ensured that the infant emperor continued to study in Paris for another seven years and meantime the French Resident Superior in Hue arrogated to himself the few remaining vestiges of imperial authority . |