Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] a [noun sg] [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the dog runs out of control , the fine can be unlimited and there is provision for a maximum two years ' imprisonment . |
| 2 | Liverpool 's Israeli star will be in court to bring charges of breach of contract against the relegation threatened Italian club for an incident four years ago . |
| 3 | At present there are no plans for structural repairs to the church , where problems first came to light after a survey two years ago . |
| 4 | John lost an arm and a leg as a result of a motorcycle 12 years ago and he has been provided with a £200 electronic device , the size of a cigarette pack , that uses electric signals to relieve discomfort . |
| 5 | Welcome back : The murder of a student ten years ago started an inquiry that crossed international boundaries and inspired an Inspector Morse novel . |
| 6 | The initial interview with an MD seven years my junior was largely comfortable and amicable apart from the minor irritant when he asked if I thought I could relate to young people in the office . |
| 7 | Two earlier suspended sentences for similar offences also came into force , extending Honsik 's prison term to a potential three years . |
| 8 | At 23 years old , Alex Watts has the presence of a man ten years his senior , tempered with a new-found impatience he knows frustrates his family and friends . |
| 9 | It should be seen as a five-year plan because , while Scotch has to be matured by law for a minimum three years , the time balance will help the company to secure a better malt price . |
| 10 | Little by little , however , the force of this long glen beneath the austere greyness of the Five Sisters touched Johnson , and he moved his position from that of first considering the political role of such remoteness , and the opportunities it gave for military strategies and subsequent escapes — Glenshiel had been the scene of a battle fifty-four years earlier in which local Highlanders unsuccessfully reinforced a Spanish invasion force — to being lulled by the sight of so many waters , brooks , burns , and silver rivulets , ‘ which commonly ran with a clear shallow stream over a hard pebbly bottom ’ . |
| 11 | Marjory had been killed in a fall from a horse two years earlier ; but a boy child , Robert , was born from her dead body . |
| 12 | He got the cleaning job as a stop-gap 3 years ago and quickly spotted his chance . |
| 13 | Yet Mr Kohl seems more interested in getting votes from right-wingers than in winning them for Turks : the most he has done to change the citizenship law is to wonder aloud whether Germany 's Turks might be granted dual citizenship for a trial five years , at the end of which they could choose to be either Turks or Germans . |
| 14 | Section 33 discretion was refused having regard to three factors : the prejudice to the defendant , the unsatisfactory nature of a trial seven years later and the potential claim the plaintiff had against his solicitors . |
| 15 | I was in the hotel room next door to Baghetti at Rheims that year and yet I could n't find his name to score a point in a quiz 30 years later ! |
| 16 | The duration of copyright may be extended across the European Community to a uniform seventy years from the year of death of the artist or author . |
| 17 | However , to attain the required completions , the capacity of the overall available land supply should be in excess of a minimum five years supply at all times , or at least future supplies should be assured to reduce uncertainties . |
| 18 | The reappraisal comes , incidentally , just after I drew attention to Emma Tennant 's forthcoming biography , which makes some play of Hardy 's relationship with an actress 60 years his junior . |
| 19 | The ban was imposed after Dutch fans created a disturbance on a ferry six years ago . |
| 20 | Robinson , 38 , who began his West career as a winger 20 years ago but has played mostly as a back row forward , will also play for Darlington next season . |
| 21 | CORK full back Mark O'Connor began his sporting career as a goalie eight years ago . |
| 22 | But in 1944 , at the age of fifteen , she was judged to have the mental age of a child four years younger . |
| 23 | He continued his researches with vigour , having learned to drive a car at the age of seventy-five and despite the amputation of a leg three years later . |
| 24 | Morrison , 24 , won a unanimous verdict over a man 20 years older than him , and could now get a crack at Lewis ' WBC crown . |
| 25 | Alex Household had been excellent in the part , but , in retrospect , he seemed to have been giving an actor 's interpretation of a man fifteen years older than himself . |
| 26 | If the spectacle of a woman well into her fifties in love with a man twelve years her junior is ridiculous , then they were ridiculous . |
| 27 | The guide , who helped save Prince Charles 's life in an avalanche four years ago , dropped them and told the duchess : ‘ You can rely on me . ’ |
| 28 | Scientists were aware of gallium 's potential as a semiconductor 30 years ago but come the computer revolution it remained largely ignored . |
| 29 | The sister of Derek Bentley , executed for his alleged role in the killing of a policeman forty years ago , has been given leave to take court action to secure a posthumous pardon . |
| 30 | Michael Shirley , a former Royal Navy sailor , is serving a life sentence at Long Lartin Prison in Worcestershire for the killing of a barmaid six years ago . |