Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [pron] [verb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Every branch of literature , reading , orthography , recitation , grammar and composition together with British history forms the prominent part of the system ; while the entire curriculum of study which occupies six years embraces the Latin , Greek , French , Russian and German languages , history , geography , physiology , chemistry , natural philosophy , zoology , botany , algebra , geometry , drawing and painting , fencing , gymnastics and military drill . |
| 2 | Thus commenced a quest for salvation which lasted six years and in which he was often in a state of great depression . |
| 3 | The rest is history , but one which records her pivotal work with the Ordinary Life initiative more than ten years ago , from which so much else has flowed ; working with Maureen Oswin on bereavement which culminated two years ago in the latter 's Am I Allowed to Cry ? , helping to get the Campaign for Mentally Handicapped People ( now Values into Action ) off the ground ; respite care ; and the initiative to get children out of long-stay hospitals . |
| 4 | CONGRATULATIONS to electrician who completed 25 years service on . |
| 5 | In 1914 an offer from Australia took Lewis and his trainer , Alec ‘ Zalig ’ Goodman , to Sydney and five matches in three months , from where they sailed to the USA on business which lasted five years . |
| 6 | Just after the despatch of the circular to provincial governors A. I. Levshin , the Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs , began compiling a historical memorandum on serfdom which reviewed 200 years of legislation on the subject and drew on the documents generated by Nicholas I 's secret committees . |