Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [prep] a [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember I was once experimenting with a gauze — it had been in La Scala for a hundred years and was full of dust . |
| 2 | W , writes from : YOU recently published an Inspector Morse story about a nine year old Metro car which took only unleaded petrol . |
| 3 | A great deal is going on in those regions , and people in the south who have not been north of Watford Gap for a few years should go and see what is happening there . |
| 4 | In November I made a much delayed return to the Swanage area after a ten year absence . |
| 5 | ‘ If there is anything that will be the theme for Courtaulds in 1993 it will be ‘ costs matter ’ , ’ he told Courtauld News in a New Year interview . |
| 6 | Allowable losses for CGT purposes from a previous year of tax assessment may be brought forward to diminish the value of gains for calculation of CGT in the current year of assessment . |
| 7 | Key expenditure and wages/salaries data were obtained from leading SWA members on a financial year basis . |
| 8 | John Swain , describing returning to Phnom Penh after a thirteen- year absence , wrote wistfully of the now vanished maisons flottantes ( floating brothels ) and the old Café de Paris cyclo-girls who would coo ‘ Aller avec vous ce soir , Monsieur ’ . |
| 9 | An unknown writer observing at the restoration work of 1887 says of the nave , the walls were found to be covered with old surface paintings , and Fielding in his Memories of Malling , writes , " In Halling Church until a few years ago existed the uncouth painting over the chancel arch , variously described as the tale of the unfaithful wife and the emblematic representation of the seven deadly sins . |
| 10 | Jiang Zemin in a New Year address in Beijing on Feb. 4 had urged people to " accelerate the pace of reform " , to " make explorations boldly " and to " further emancipate our minds " by changing work styles and avoiding formalism . |
| 11 | This comment may have drawn attention to Mary Leapor for a few years . |
| 12 | Turning to Westminster Press the cost Westminster Press in a full year er , will amount to three point eight million pounds and er . |
| 13 | I have not seen Brian Way for a few years now , since he went to work in America , but if he is continually developing his philosophy and practice at the rate Dorothy Heathcote is refining hers , then there is the added danger that anything written about them is out of date as it leaves the press . |
| 14 | Again , an analysis of the lesser offices of bailli , prévôt and constable ( of a castle ) between 1254 and 1307 reveals that at least sixty-one identifiable Gascon nobles held these offices , as against a mere nineteen English or Anglo-Normans , of whom ten were appointed by Simon de Montfort and the Lord Edward in a single year ( 1253–4 ) . |
| 15 | He came into the Guyana team as a 20 year runs straight away , and remained a permanent fixture . |
| 16 | Example 1 is the hook riff from a well known Huey Lewis tune from a few years back . |
| 17 | IRISH League champions Linfield have signed 26-year-old Partick Thistle midfielder Gary Peebles on a two year contract — first step in a close season build-up schedule , writes Malcolm Brodie . |
| 18 | LINFIELD have signed Partick Thistle midfielder Gary Peebles on a two year contract . |
| 19 | ‘ PhD STUDENTS will flock to Sri Lanka in a few years ’ time and write learned theses on the inappropriateness of high technology aid for poor countries ’ , predicts a Sri Lankan lawyer , Gamini Iriyagolle , a specialist on the Mahaweli Programme , one of the world 's biggest development schemes under way anywhere . |
| 20 | ‘ After I had been at the Bedford Institution for a few years there were changes for the better . |
| 21 | Swindon Town have strengthened their side by signing the former Spurs and England defender Terry Fenwick on a one year contract … |
| 22 | Living with his mother Kiefer stayed in Los Angeles for a few years before moving back to Bridgewater Canada . |
| 23 | Ben Gill was re-elected for a second year as deputy , and Tony Pexton for a second year as vice-president . |
| 24 | Oswaldston 's going to be living off Walter Machin for a few years . ’ |