Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] for [art] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the total arrears for the 4 years of Community Charge and includes the Region , Districts and Water Charge . |
| 2 | We shall have to live with it , because er I I do n't think that any hope of any redress next year , but the got to be established of a different system , of me a different methodology for the foreseeable years , if we 're going to get those schemes through that you supported wholeheartedly and congratulated us and for bringing forward the new road schemes for er the that that that that you so approved so warmly yesterday . |
| 3 | It has been a major political and cultural force for a hundred years . |
| 4 | He retired from public life for a few years and then returned to full prominence . |
| 5 | The trust will follow a similar investment strategy to the Hypo Foreign & Colonial US Smaller Companies unit trust , the top performing authorised fund for the five years to the end of December , with £1,000 invested five years ago now worth £4,348 . |
| 6 | The smallest tank found to be adequate to breed a large pair of cichlids was 36″ × 15″ × 15″ and one author had six of these tanks running with deep bed undergravel filtration with no serious problems for the five years . |
| 7 | The training committee was wound up by Vic Machin , the chairman and the BMC secretary Derek Walker some months ago — but they have yet to inform the committee : a clear snub to the many volunteers who banged their heads against a wall with only limited success for a dozen years in a genuine attempt to impart some credibility to the BMC 's involvement in mountain training . |
| 8 | The remainder included words such as ‘ oshac ’ and ‘ ae ’ , which have not been used in standard English for a hundred years — nice try snatched the £1O longest word prize with his beautifully simple nine letter word , ‘ refollows ’ . |
| 9 | Students are not eligible under this scheme if they : have not been ordinarily resident within the European Community for the three years preceding the start of their course at the University ; or are on an exchange programme where fees are waived ; or have attended a course normally lasting more than two years and have received a UK statutory award for this study . |
| 10 | No-one was more anti-populist than Charles Leslie , admittedly a rather extreme Tory , but whose Rehearsal was nevertheless a powerful vehicle for the propagation of Tory ideology for the middle years of Anne 's reign . |
| 11 | Built in 1820 it ground corn for a hundred years . |
| 12 | No I can understand her not having , not wanting kids for a few years but , ca n't you ? |
| 13 | After she had finished midwifery and two years as a Benedict 's junior sister she had joined the Royal Navy as a nursing sister for a few years . |
| 14 | The Zimbabwe Scientific Programme ( ZIMSCI ) project is designed to support teachers not trained in science and to provide a complete science package with low-cost kits for the first years of secondary school . |
| 15 | But I was n't into heroin on a full scale for a few years after that . |
| 16 | The Annamese were part of the Chinese empire for a thousand years , Paul , remember . |
| 17 | It can be sub-divided into two distinct operations : Staging This takes the list of teaching items and arranges it into blocks of the right size for the various years , months , weeks , days and classes of the teaching course . |
| 18 | In Kufra the police and , so far as it is possible to know , the secret police , were all Kufrans ; in Ajdabiya the officers reflected the tribal composition of the local population ( although their deputy chief was an outsider on temporary assignment for a few years ) . |
| 19 | ‘ There is no precedent in living memory for the eight years of sustained growth and surging prosperity that Britain has enjoyed with this Conservative government . |
| 20 | It was a difficult period for a few years until the market caught up with us . ’ |
| 21 | As this did not seem adequately to reach them , " In this country , we have only generally had waterborne sewage for a hundred years or so . |
| 22 | The wild boar had been hiding behind a large and actually rather unconvincing bush for a hundred years or so . |
| 23 | The total Community Charge arrears at 31 March 1993 as reported to the Council were £148m which represents over 10% of the total liabilities for the 4 years of Community Charge . |
| 24 | Table 2.7 of the Employment Gazettes of 1981 and 1986 give the following figures for unemployment ( thousands ) in the UK in April of 1979 and 1986 : Draw age-sex profiles for the two years . |
| 25 | The auditors of the Company Ernst & Young , Chartered Accountants and Registered Auditors , of Becket House have made a report under what is now Section 235 of the Companies Act 1985 on each set of statutory consolidated accounts for the five years ended 31 December 1991 . |
| 26 | At the same time unemployment has risen to new levels for the post-war years and continues to remain high . |
| 27 | It is for this reason that the CDP has advocated direct government funding , an advocacy which seems extremely unlikely to succeed as the government will surely want to try out the new system for a few years before sanctioning any radical alteration . |
| 28 | Anyway , with the enthusiasm of youth I had no doubt that we should be able to cope with life in remote parts for a few years . |
| 29 | The rhizome ( rootstock ) will remain in the heated tank for a few years producing fresh plants after periodic overwintering . |
| 30 | A survey was also conducted of senior members for the three years 1937/8 , 1957/8 , and 1976/7 . |