Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] years [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few years this scheme was pronounced a failure . |
| 2 | That Airtours arrived at this position is due to one of the best years any company could wish for . |
| 3 | A square vessel and parts of other domestic articles of wood were found about eight feet down in a peat moss at Strathmore , near Gruinart , and bones of a fifteen years old girl and a cow horn were turned up by the same peat diggers . |
| 4 | This increased the demand for protectionism and throughout the postwar years British industry was sheltered from foreign competition by higher tariffs , import quotas and exchange controls . |
| 5 | However , one the " dose and move " system has operated for a few years this problem is unlikely to arise . |
| 6 | But in the golden years institutionalized pay bargaining constituted one of the transmission mechanisms through which the requirements of accumulation , and the competitive struggles bred by them , generated the necessary real wage increases . |
| 7 | From this age group , the level began to increase first slowly ( infant mortality at the maternal age group 30–34 was lower than in the age group 20–24 ) and from age 35 more rapidly , although the mortality of infants born to women in the 35–39 years old group was not much higher than in the age group 20–24 which is often considered as the prime time for reproduction . |
| 8 | Within a few years that mill housed a gig mill , four fulling stocks , as well as picking , shearing and press shops . |
| 9 | It is therefore no surprise that local opposition to the LDDC has continued for over eight years now , even though the first chairman of the LDDC , Nigel Broackes of Trafalgar House , predicted that within a few years local opposition ‘ will not exist ’ . |
| 10 | Many codecs already developed are designed to be upgradeable when such standards become widely accepted and it is therefore likely that within a few years dial-up videoconferencing will be possible between a wide range of different proprietary systems . |
| 11 | The KPMG barometer suggests that over the six years that fraud has been tracked , Scotland has been less affected than most regions , with total fraud in the overall period of £34.1 million or 2.1 per cent of the UK total reported . |
| 12 | From 1066 to 1558 France had been the country that England would fight if she was going to fight anyone , but for over a hundred years that role of the perpetual enemy had been taken by Spain or — in the minds of a few people — by the Netherlands . |