Example sentences of "[noun sg] of a [adj] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is unwise to attempt to tackle these various aspects of second stage recovery in any great depth before the completion of a full two years of recovery from primary or family disease because emotional and spiritual recovery may not yet be sufficiently secure to be able to take on these further challenges . |
| 2 | A Major or a Kinnock may work for decades in the hope of a few short years at the pinnacle of our political system . |
| 3 | Probably the waves cut the cliffs of weak killas far back inland , over a period of a few million years . |
| 4 | The approved income of the company will be exempt from tax for a period of up to five years with a possible extension of a further five years after that . |
| 5 | In the space of a mere fifteen years , in the sixties and seventies , and in spite of all sorts of elaborate rules supposedly designed to protect that great view , your predecessors , as the planners , architects and developers of the City , wrecked the London skyline and desecrated the dome of St Paul 's . |
| 6 | Although the dog-collar is but an innovation of a mere 100 years antiquity , the wearing of robes are more venerable . |
| 7 | If the land is all eroded into the sea in a matter of a few million years , how does the system keep on running ? |
| 8 | Sixteen year olds not in full-time education will be entitled to a new traineeship lasting for up to two years , with an option of a further two years . |
| 9 | His acceptance of a further two years appears a formality , and he is convinced he can bring honours to Hillsborough . |