Example sentences of "year [conj] [adv] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | Either through this , or through their exercise of coercive powers , the great landed nobility were able to minimize damage to their incomes in the first twenty years or so after the first onset of the plague . |
2 | Why , then , should he have risked even giving the impression of having thrown his hat into the ring a full two years and more before the next election is due ? |
3 | Jim has been a newspaper seller in Swindon for 25 years and now for the first time in his life , he 's made the front page . |
4 | The relationship between the judiciary and the Government has been changed by developments over the last twenty years and especially over the last five years or so . |
5 | This met with some opposition , for there were those who regarded music with suspicion because of its ‘ human ’ origins and its consequent unworthiness for the offering of pure worship , Nevertheless , hymns grew in favour in succeeding years and especially in the first part of the eighteenth century . |
6 | My house faces southwest and over the years and especially in the last recent abnormally hot summers , the panels in the front door have undergone considerable shrinkage . |
7 | The US money supply was allowed to grow at 10 per cent per year or more for the next four years , having been virtually unchanged in 1969 . |
8 | This is the process by which the manager sets aside perhaps an hour per year to talk privately to each adviser , to look back over the year and forward to the next and discuss any concerns that the manager and adviser may have . |
9 | We want them improved for the coming year and certainly by the first year of the council tax . |