Example sentences of "[noun sg] [subord] [pron] [verb] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | He then moved to University where he spent eight years in research and development in Artificial Intelligence and particularly Expert Systems . |
| 2 | He 's already put them to good use at Halifax Rugby League club where he enjoyed four years of success . |
| 3 | Do professional requirements cover more or less of the curriculum in any given field than they did ten years ago ? |
| 4 | It was just as I had remembered it for over thirty years , it was just as it used to appear at least once a week at lunch in the Paris household where I spent two years of my youth with a greedy Norman family : two years of study interspersed with the most trying of family meals , endless and infinitely to be dreaded but for the blessed beauty of the food . |
| 5 | For instance I have given one which is in the last ten years we have nearly one and half million more people in work than we had ten years ago . |
| 6 | This week , they play three nights at London 's Town & Country Club , which is n't bad , but it 's a high step down from the dizzy heights of packing out Wembley for several shows on the trot as they did five years ago when they were one of the biggest bands in Europe . |
| 7 | We could purchase our own houses while they lived in police colonies , denied the privilege of house purchase until they had fifteen years ' service ; this classified them as ‘ peasants , serfs , living in the feudal world of tithed cottages ’ . |
| 8 | Most often he falters by trying to second-guess himself and his audience , and sound like he did 10 years ago . |
| 9 | This month I was the first Secretary of State for Trade and Industry to be invited to address its conference since it began 15 years ago . |
| 10 | There are also links with Nottingham 's twin city Minsk proving that the department still serves the local community as it did 75 years ago . |
| 11 | We Brits now drink twice as much wine as we did ten years ago the equivalent of half a bottle of wine a week for every man and woman in the country . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm disappointed with the criticism I got , stuff like I looked light years away from Tyson , ’ he said . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm disappointed with the criticism I got , stuff like I looked light years away from Tyson , ’ he said . |
| 14 | " Having given you the best years of my life , I now appeal to your justice and well-known liberality for a retiring pension , humbly requesting that in the event of my death the same may be continued to my child for his education till he attains 15 years of age , he being now in his 7th year . " |
| 15 | Of the 35,000 who have been accepted , about 26,000 are expected to be at the start and these will include one of Britain 's most famous athletes , David Bedford , who has slimmed down for his first big race since he retired 11 years ago . |
| 16 | The Commissioners answers came in the form of a set of proposals which represented the most fundamental reshaping of the common Agricultural policy since it began 30 years ago . |
| 17 | , co-ordinator of the Open Day has been a user of the Jack Kane Centre since it opened 17 years ago . |
| 18 | No reed was to be mown for thatch before it had two years ' growth . |
| 19 | Ronnie Barker was hoping for a peaceful life when he retired six years ago . |
| 20 | Pauline Edwards had worked as a nurse at the hospital since it opened seven years ago . |
| 21 | Ian Hollingsbee worked at the hospital before it closed 4 years ago . |
| 22 | The texture of the sounds , the little ant-bear funnels , the twittering of the water sprinklers , the unnamed but instantly familiar birds , the patient devotions of the gardeners , the numberless frogs ( now in caviare-eyed repose on water lilies and ledges ) , the huge , lazy tadpoles , the dragonflies on their biplane wings skimming the water , the busy red ants returning with baguettes of grass ( the same ants which used to run up the shorts of children and sink their vicious fangs into unwary little scrota ) and now the distant thwack of tennis bails and the inevitable muted cries of anguish — all these impressions play so strongly on my memory because they leap thirty-five years of my life in one bound . |
| 23 | With no reserve football in Italy it 's hard for Milan to keep all their stars happy but , with Burlusconi having pumped £50m into a club which as £15m in debt when he arrived seven years ago , there are few grumbles on the terraces . |
| 24 | Sarah had nursed her mother until she died two years ago . |
| 25 | She had worked ten years in the West End and had no friends in the suburb where she and Ron had been lucky to get the second floor of a house when they married two years ago . |
| 26 | The nanny who arrived in the Lutyens 's household in 1898 , for example , was still with the family when she died 38 years later , and the nanny 's rather grand bed in the Dolls ' House night nursery can only be interpreted as a mark of the greatest respect . |