Example sentences of "[num] year [prep] [art] [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.

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1 In 50 years as a vets ' surgery The Grange has had to tend to many waif birds and animals brought for treatment .
2 The current project will involve a detailed audit of the data held on magnetic tapes collected during the first ten years of the children 's lives .
3 Lori McNeil , the lowest ranked player in the field , pulled off a 7–6 ( 7–1 ) , 6–4 first round victory in the Virginia Slims Championships for her biggest triumph in nine years on the women 's tennis circuit .
4 Ann , in the twenty one years of the women 's movement has there been any real progress for women ?
5 Within a hundred years of the missionaries ' arrival many English men and women had enthusiastically adopted the monasticism which was considered the purest form of the Christian life and the surest way to salvation , and which had spread throughout western Europe in the fifth and sixth centuries .
6 I stuck around for another seven years for the children 's sake but it was very unsatisfactory .
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