Example sentences of "[num] year [prep] the [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Ann , in the twenty one years of the women 's movement has there been any real progress for women ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I stuck around for another seven years for the children 's sake but it was very unsatisfactory . |