Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] a [adj] years [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | A quick spin of his ‘ Sweet Freedom — The Best Of ’ compilation album of a few years back is proof enough that he has had many hits in his home patch without making similar in-roads here . |
| 2 | For those who get involved with up-front lathe work , how about a smock as a New Years gift ? |
| 3 | The plaintiffs alleged the first , sixth and seventh defendants in preparing their business plan had used five specific items of information derived from financial projections contained in an appendix to a business plan ( " the blue book " ) of the plaintiffs namely : ( a ) the average operating profit per Bureau de Change ; ( b ) the average profit of the first year of operation as a percentage of a full years profit ; ( c ) the average costs per Bureau ; ( d ) the average number and/or transactions per Bureau ; ( e ) the average value of each transaction . |
| 4 | You can see in a Trivial Pursuit question in a few years time what 's the most commonly said three words ? |
| 5 | On the assumption that they would continue to fall at the same rate as in the first half of the decade , it was estimated that the population would be only one tenth of its size in a hundred years time . |