Example sentences of "the [num ord] [adj] years and [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It would be a 10-year lease , index-linked to inflation for the first five years and I would have to do all the repairs the brewery had n't done . ’ |
| 2 | Surely they 've been for the last four years and they must or do they just keep it at eighty one then they go to ninety ? |
| 3 | The benefit plus arrangement has become well established over the last four years and it makes sense to use it for Community Action . |
| 4 | The advertising agency as we know it has emerged only in the last fifty years and it will continue to evolve as communication technology changes and mass communication becomes even more sophisticated . |
| 5 | That 's what has happened in world football for the last 10 years and we 've just started doing it . |
| 6 | Commercial director John Roberts , son of company chairman John C H Roberts , said : ‘ Despite the recession , we have expanded by 30pc over the last two years and we are confident of further expansion . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ We have not been massacred in any game over the last six years and it wo n't start on Wednesday , ’ he said . |
| 8 | On the hearing of a debtor 's petition , the court must not make a bankruptcy order where the total of the debtor 's debts would be less than the " small bankruptcies level " , currently £20,000 , the minimum value of the debtor 's assets would be equal to or more than the " minimum amount " , currently £2,000 , the debtor has not been adjudicated bankrupt nor entered into any composition with his creditors or scheme of arrangement within the last five years and it would be appropriate to appoint an insolvency practitioner to prepare a report ( s 273 ) . |
| 9 | –This is the fourth annual report which I have presented to the Village Association in the last five years and it is for me the most pleasing , not because I am standing down as chairman but because I feel that it is the most positive report that I have been able to give . |
| 10 | ‘ This is the fourth annual report which I have presented to the Village Association in the last five years and it is for me the most pleasing , not because I am standing down as chairman but because I feel that it is the most positive report that I have been able to give . |
| 11 | On the British Army 's most wanted list for the last five years and you still have the nerve to sit here in the middle of Belfast . ’ |
| 12 | I can remember I 've been on this Gipsy Working Party since you lost control of this Council for the last five years and you 've fought tooth and nail all the way down the line to resist every gipsy site that came in you 've used every manoeuvre that you could possibly do to resist it . |
| 13 | Well have they withdrawn one of their submissions to South Oxfordshire that they 've tried to claim that they were using it over the last twelve years and it has now been withdrawn because they know very well that their claim to South Oxfordshire can not be justified about the use . |
| 14 | ‘ I have been running expeditions over the last 29 years and it was the most unpleasant , nasty experience and I do n't want to be involved in it in any way again , ’ he said . |
| 15 | Friends have been of paramount importance to her in the last ten years and she has not deserted them . |
| 16 | ‘ Women say to me they have n't done anything for the last ten years and it turns out they have had four children , run the PTA , served as parent governor , done charity work , organised a community activity and cared for aged parents . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I 've been an Overseas ’ Corporation Executive for the last ten years and I 've always been told that the reason the Corporation could n't pay me the salary it paid to Americans doing similar work was because my salary had to be related to British salary scales . ’ |
| 18 | Because if they do n't know about it the mother or the father of that child will no doubt be coming along screaming I 've been getting twenty five pounds a week for the last ten years and I 've child on my own now . |
| 19 | Mobility in North Yorkshire is increasing dramatically , has increased dramatically over the last ten years and I think there are sustainability arguments against a level erm of provision at fifty er around that level . |
| 20 | She had worked for Mair as his PA for the last three years and he knew her now no better than on that morning when she had sat in this same office being interviewed for the job . |
| 21 | We 've been saying the same thing for the last three years and I 've got the minutes here to prove it . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've been second five times in the last three years and I 'm over the moon to have got home first at last . ’ |
| 23 | Grace had appeared in supporting roles in West End productions for the last twenty years and he knew she would be word-perfect when she felt it necessary . |
| 24 | ‘ The industry has cleaned up its act in the last few years and we import from restricted countries , ’ said the timber merchant . |
| 25 | Maureen has n't worked for the last few years and she 's ill herself , she 's got hepatitis B. |
| 26 | THERE 'S been a revolution in media over the last few years and it 's going to continue at an ever-increasing pace for sometime to come . |
| 27 | we have extremely good erm figure on a reduction in accident over the last few years and I 'd like to erm , I 'd like Councillor to erm to prevail our thanks to the road safety officers |
| 28 | But , he said , he 'd enjoyed eating in the restaurant for the last 20 years and he was pleased to see it revived . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've had my greatest moments here on my birthday for the last 20 years and I do n't intend to stop now . |
| 30 | Pete Messenger has been in the paper-making business for the last 6 years and he 's convinced hemp paper is the way of the future . |