Example sentences of "[num] year [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The coming into being over the last 30 years of the political communities of Scotland , Wales , women , Afro-Caribbeans , Asians , Muslims , — each of these is premised on a freshly ‘ discovered ’ history of violence . |
| 2 | The research , carried out over 30 years by the joint directors of the Child Development Research Unit at Nottingham University , shows that two-thirds of babies are smacked before the age of one , that three-quarters of four-year-olds are smacked once a week or more , and that by the age of seven , 22 per cent have been hit with implements . |
| 3 | Our four hypertension related male deaths all occurred in the first 12 years of the 21 years of follow up , suggesting their treatment was probably begun too late . |
| 4 | Notice the hints of Stoicism ; of facing experiences , not shirking them ; of enduring and continuing to the end , six years before the Elegiac Stanzas ( p. 140 ) . |
| 5 | Its presence has been seen for 2,000 years throughout the acrimonious purgings of innocent human life in the witchcraft genocides ; through the long systematic persecution then culmination in horrific holocausting of Jesus 's own people — the tribe of Judah . |
| 6 | The house was built by an Edwardian doctor using only the best materials — oak cured for eight years for the lower rooms ' panelling , fine teak for the window frames and mahogany for the fireplace . |
| 7 | We have been negotiating for eight years with the Faroese authorities in an effort to get them to stop , without success . |
| 8 | All residents under the age of 75 years in the above areas , but with particular reference to those aged 0–24 years . |
| 9 | Katherine smiled proudly ; the voice , the accent and the pose were English , three years of the best schools and governesses had completely eradicated the Dublin accent . |
| 10 | The sample size for the first three years of the Social Attitudes Survey was between 1700 and 1800 . |
| 11 | The shift in age distribution from a median age at 55 years in the 1977–81 users to 63 years in the 1989–90 users is perhaps the most impostant finding of the present study . |
| 12 | It was 50 years from the first signs of the rundown of the British Empire to our going cap-in-hand to the International Monetary Fund for financial support . |
| 13 | Betty was previously on the Executive Committee for 13 years as the Qualified Teachers ' Representative . |
| 14 | The survey points out that only three biotechnology medicines have been approved in the US during the past year and only 14 in the past decade , and at this rate , it will take 13 years for the 21 medicines now awaiting approval to be passed . |
| 15 | The shift in age distribution from a median age at 55 years in the 1977–81 users to 63 years in the 1989–90 users is perhaps the most impostant finding of the present study . |
| 16 | Kemble 's best known as the home for seventeen years of the Red Arrows . |
| 17 | He had been through school and university , he had travelled the world , he had completed five years in the armed forces , he had flown fighter planes and helicopters — and for nine months had had command of a mine hunter in the North Sea . |
| 18 | He is entitled to reject a nomination only if the nomination paper does not conform to requirements ( 1983 Act , sch.1 , paras.12,15 ) or if a candidate is disqualified by reason of having been ordered to be detained or imprisoned for more than one year in the British Islands or the Republic of Ireland in respect of an offence or offences of which he has been found guilty ( Representation of the People Act 1981 , s.1 ) . |
| 19 | Bagshot had served for twenty years in the Royal Marines . |
| 20 | Such precepts , according to one senior officer , were in the context of the previous 150 years of the Metropolitan Police , ‘ simply astonishing ’ . |
| 21 | Sources are strangely silent on the first hundred years of the Mesopotamian Jews under Parthian rule . |
| 22 | After an HND in commercial horticulture at Chelmsford , Ric spent two years with the Great Gardens of England production nursery at Blenheim Palace , four years as grounds supervisor at an agriculture college in Brecon , and seven years running his own market garden . |
| 23 | You do n't mention him , except to say that he was a biologist and that he went to England to work for two years at the chemical weapons experimental establishment at Porton Down . |
| 24 | There is no intention to review the proposals that have been announced , but there are at least two years before the first amalgamations and if military circumstances change , there is time for a reassessment of present plans . |
| 25 | The world had begun ignoring Serbia almost two years before the economic sanctions . |
| 26 | For me it was certainly a healthy life , living up on the wolds after two years in the marshy lowlands of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdon . |
| 27 | The son of Walter Sisulu , the recently released ANC leader , Zwelakhe Sisulu was detained without trial for nearly two years in the early days of the state of emergency . |
| 28 | The Training Agency has budgeted up to El 00,000 per year for four years for the 30 Compacts in Urban Programme Areas . |
| 29 | Sandwich courses may be ‘ thin ’ or ‘ thick ’ , generally lasting for three or four years with the interleaved periods of placement in industry or the public sector varying from three months to one year . |
| 30 | After nearly 20 years in the lower echelons of the second division and without a major title to their name , the team with the grand sounding name of Real Club Deportivo de la Coruna have elbowed their way past the giant clubs which year after year dominate the Spanish League , and have made a bold bid for the title . |