Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [adj] years [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The court heard that Ironside had been banned from the roads for two years in May 1990 and for the same period in February 1991 . |
| 2 | Harvey Pitcher , doing research on nineteenth century Arran writers and painters and especially on the wealthy Muir family who rented houses for many years on Arran , has given me this delightful little gem . |
| 3 | We supplied information to different revolutionary groups for many years about Devraux 's work for the Surete . |
| 4 | Roads after three years of neglect are full of potholes ; even now the general public can not get electric light for streets or houses , though water and sewerage systems were got working very shortly after the liberation . |
| 5 | Keratitis , oculomotor disturbances , haemorrhagic retinopathy , and disc oedema have been reported , generally as isolated cases after many years of chlorambucil use . |
| 6 | BUSINESS Expansion Schemes share issues may appeal to those who can forego access to part of their savings for five years in return for sheltering these funds from tax . |
| 7 | The Freers were equally prolific but at a slower rate , with eight branches after 200 years of residence . |
| 8 | One piece of the inscribed marble base survives with them , and shows that the dedicator was a Sicilian , one of the Deinomenid family who made themselves tyrants in these years of Syracuse and other cities . |
| 9 | Taking this approach one step further , Miller ( 1981 a ) has provided a table which details the relationship between age and MLU to be expected in normally developing children for each three-month interval from 18 months to 5 years of age ( see Table 7.2 ) . |
| 10 | There are , however , reports of heavy natural infections of adult worms and larvae associated with catarrhal and haemorrhagic enteritis , with thickening and oedema of the mucosa , especially in animals of six months to three years of age . |
| 11 | Both were neglected in the 1980s in the constant pressure to find cost-improvement savings , though the first would have resulted in longer-term economies and the latter will result in much bigger bills through cumulative years of neglect . |
| 12 | Martin Sherwood takes the wraps off 50 years of polythene |
| 13 | Meanwhile , at clubs like Tottenham and Ajax of Amsterdam , fans now celebrate their club 's Jewish associations after suffering years of abuse for the same . |
| 14 | People are also seeing the effects of eleven years of Mrs. Thatcher 's free market experiment . |
| 15 | Ion Iliescu in particular became the focal point of demonstrators who claimed that his communist past disqualified him from office and that nothing short of a total purge of communists from all positions of responsibility would cleanse society of the effects of 40 years of dictatorship . |
| 16 | The effects of forty years of apartheid ideology and hundreds of years of racial discrimination on South African society have been reflected and reproduced in its education system . |
| 17 | As currently organised , it combines work experience with ‘ on-the-job ’ and ‘ off-the-job ’ training for young people leaving school or college , in periods of two years for 16-year-olds , and one year for 17-year-olds . |
| 18 | Parents of fourth years at Falconhurst school reacted angrily at being told to keep their children at home today and tomorrow . |
| 19 | Experiences in recent years in New Zealand and Australia suggest that many stranded animals can be saved if certain simple rules are followed . |
| 20 | Analysis of a sample of one in 12 claim forms for night visits submitted over one year beginning 1 July 1991 , and estimation of the number of night visits in previous years from data on payment . |
| 21 | Bucephalus eventually died of wounds at thirty years of age , in 326 BC , following Alexander 's war with the Indian king , Porus . |
| 22 | Data from the Child Health and Education Study , a national longitudinal survey of 12,000 children from birth to 10 years , will be used to investigate social processes which increase or decrease the risk of different behaviour disorders at 10 years of age . |
| 23 | Second , Bede says that Oswiu established his rule over the southern Anglo-Saxon kingdoms for three years after Penda 's death ( HE III , 24 — on Bede 's chronology 655–8 but perhaps to be emended to 656–9 . |
| 24 | On the contrary , the sadness was outweighed by anger over the deprivations that had presented the emergence of black Pollocks and Procters for 200 years in South Africa — deprivations that were now being remedied mainly because of the success of the long boycott . |
| 25 | Celebrations for 2500 years of Bukhara |
| 26 | A WOMAN who suffered mysterious fits for five years before doctors identified the problem as epilepsy has started a support group to help others . |
| 27 | Details of the tax deal emerge in a confidential letter from Peat Marwick Mitchell , BAe 's tax advisers , showing that the company could offset Rover 's losses for tax purposes for three years without fear of a challenge from tax officials . |
| 28 | AS the United States voted today for its next President , opinion poll leader Bill Clinton confidently climaxed his gruelling campaign by urging Americans to back new ideas after 12 years of Republican leadership . |
| 29 | Trade theory seems of little help , for the advances in recent years of understanding how trade might affect national welfare are offset by limits to the theories in their capacity to yield policy advice that can work in practice ( see , for example , Baldwin , 1988 ; Helpman and Krugman , 1989 ) . |
| 30 | First , there has been a growing number of prosecutions in recent years for injuries resulting from organized matches of Association and Rugby football . |