Example sentences of "period [prep] four years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The difficulties encountered in negotiating all the necessary approvals , particularly the funding , for a scheme which departed from the norm of fair rent housing explain the exceptionally long period of four years that preceded commencement of the building contract . |
| 2 | Several years ago they could offer mortgages at an interest rate of roughly 4% , fixed for an initial period of four years . |
| 3 | And Financial Assurance ( 081–367 6000 ) was paying 8.05% on £5,000 or more for a period of four years . |
| 4 | While not giving details of the pricing , he said that the price-performance curve on the 80486 is the basis for pricing of the Pentium and that he expected the sort of dynamic that applied to the 80486 to apply to the Pentium as well — the 80486 being introduced at $900 to $1,000 and falling to $200 over a period of four years — at a rate of 30% per year . |
| 5 | The First ( or rather the first he acknowledged , since there had been a previous Quartettsatz he had written at the age of 25 ) was completed in 1920 after a long gestation period of four years — partly explicable by its extreme complexity and his elaborately detailed indications on the playing of almost every note . |
| 6 | This thesis describes work undertaken by the author over a period of four years in the Department of Computing at Nottingham Trent University . |
| 7 | The extraordinary power and influence of " McCarthyism " in " the land of the free " over a period of four years cries out for explanation . |
| 8 | After that Labour ‘ enjoyed ’ a period of four years in government in which continuance in office depended upon the support of the Liberals . |
| 9 | In April responsibility for funding residential and nursing home care will be transferred from the Department of Social Security to local authority social services departments over a phased period of four years . |
| 10 | Between October 1949 , when Sartre resigned from the Rassemblement Democratique Revolutionnaire , on the grounds that the RDR was an abstract political movement out of touch with the social reality of postwar France , and July 1952 , the date of publication in Les Temps modernes of " Les Communistes et la paix " , Sartre was drawn irreversibly , under the pressure of national and international events , towards close collaboration with the French communist party.38 For a period of four years in the early to mid 1950s , Sartre was consequently closely associated with the PCF . |
| 11 | Subsections : ( 1 ) Though the membership of a licensing board is appointed for a period of four years ( s. 1(6) ) , the subsection desiderates that the chairman is to be elected annually . |
| 12 | Is the Minister aware that , by 9 January , Bir Zeit university will have been closed continuously for a period of four years and that a generation of young Palestinians will have been denied the right to higher education , which is surely one of the basic fundamental human rights ? |
| 13 | In the Hall study accidents at 177 signalized crossroads were analysed over a period of four years , over this period accidents involving a vehicle turning right outnumbered those to vehicles turning left by a ratio of 6.6:1 ( accidents involving one vehicle turning in each direction were excluded from the analysis ) . |
| 14 | The case notes from all patients were reviewed and a follow up questionnaire was sent after a mean period of four years to those 72 still alive , of which 56 replied . |
| 15 | In respect of garage M the appellants agreed to sell and the respondents agreed to buy from the appellants for a period of four years and five months their total requirements of petrol for resale . |
| 16 | The company does not have a sparkling financial story to tell — it lost £1.7m pre-tax on turnover of £12.5m in the year to September 30 , and its only profitable period in four years was the nine months to September 1991 , when it did £684,000 pre-tax on sales of £9.6m . |