Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [adj] years in [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Experiences in recent years in New Zealand and Australia suggest that many stranded animals can be saved if certain simple rules are followed . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Lockwood Parish Map created by a band of workers over several years in East Cleveland has been packed off to Milton Keynes where it will be on display when the Queen commemorates the 25th anniversary of the new town on March 13 . |
| 6 | Sentences were increased from a total of 72 years to 260 years in prison . |
| 7 | At that time Dr. Yeats indicated to Samuel Whitbread that he intended , after having considered the matter for about a year , to ‘ transplant myself to the metropolis and … quit the early scenes of my professional exertions after 15 years in Bedford ’ . |
| 8 | The data in the appendix add details of the chronology of policy development in each of our three countries and the changes over recent years in trade and investment flows , sectoral composition of the economy and demographic indicators . |
| 9 | McKellar has retired after an incredible run of 17 clubs in 20 years in league soccer — on both sides of the border . |
| 10 | Their evidence for this judgement , as with those presented in most of their surveys , was loosely stated and difficult to verify , but the argument has been echoed many times in recent years in Britain by academics and policy-makers alike . |
| 11 | Well-known for his displays over many years in Percival Provost G–AWPH , John flew the aircraft from Eastleigh Airport to the Science Museum 's airfield at Wroughton late September and plans to base and operate it from there for the 1992 airshow season . |
| 12 | The trial ended on July 15 with the sentencing of the two leaders to 12 years in prison . |
| 13 | Why is it that the Government promised higher standards of education in 1979 , 1983 and 1987 but the results of 13 years in office have been lower standards of education ? |
| 14 | They hoped it would be a means of convincing voters — and their own restless supporters — that the party was still bursting with initiatives after 13 years in office . |
| 15 | This is consistent with studies of cardiovascular risk factors in men and women aged 50 years in Preston . |