Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] year [conj] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For six years or so the CNAA had moved with caution — indeed , only one of its officers , Francis Hanrott , had any previous experience involving contact with teacher education , and he was given responsibility for the various levels of negotiation . |
| 2 | Mr Winchester , a Mac-fan of many years and now the boss of a Mac-using electronic-publishing company , has an ingenious explanation : unlike the clumsy MS-DOS operating system that powers IBM computers and all their clones , the Mac can cope with comparative ease with the pictographic scripts and unusual phonetic alphabets of Asia . |
| 3 | On passing a sentence of imprisonment of two years or less the Act empowered a court to suspend the sentence by ordering that it should not take effect unless during a specified period the offender committed another offence punishable by imprisonment . |
| 4 | For adult offenders the picture showed little change from previous years and indeed the number of sentenced adult male prisoners had increased . |
| 5 | They moved to scenic Greencastle on the southern tip of Co Down in recent years but now the ‘ adopted ’ locals are dreading the possibility of the ferry which will operate from Greencastle to Greenore on the other side of Carlingford Lough . |
| 6 | Yesterday , two Norfolk men who kidnapped a prime suspect and took him for a ride were sent to prison for five years and apparently the suspect did not even get a police caution . |
| 7 | As for our music sessions and lessons , they went on intermittently for several years until eventually the drums were abandoned , put away for the sake of both higher education and marriage . |
| 8 | Reports say they will bid £8 million to buy out Swales , chairman for 20 years but now the subject of a concerted hate campaign by supporters following the sacking of manager Peter Reid . |