Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [num] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | The callous crook got five years after milking two families of everything they owned to pay for his luxury life in a country mansion . |
| 2 | The new type of molecular scissors , called a ‘ minizyme ’ , is a refinement of the ‘ gene shears ’ technique announced three years ago by two scientists at another CSIRO laboratory in Canberra . |
| 3 | It specialises in building oak framed houses using 500 year old methods . |
| 4 | Elsa and Jim met four years ' ago . |
| 5 | Can we catch up , by a little clairvoyance , on the persistent tendency of state provision to come thirty years late ? |
| 6 | The pattern seen among women suggests the possibility of such an effect , but the low number of cases occurring seven years after start of cimetidine use or longer ( only six ) and the absence of any effect in men speak against the interpretation of the association as being casual . |
| 7 | The only disturbance to the peace of this natural sanctuary occurred 120 years ago when a spectacular railway was laid at a high level across the head of the valley ; this apart , Dentdale today is very much as it was three centuries ago , happily free from modern developments and well content to remain so . |
| 8 | ( The information on the inlay is not helpful : after the years at school , speedily dealt with , the story covers one year , not ten . ) |
| 9 | Most of us , though , have learnt to beware the double handshake : hand clasped and hand on arm , all at once , It was a beguiling technique perfected 50 years ago by Adolf Hitler when he gained the chancellorship of Germany . |
| 10 | The number of cattle-stealing cases doubled , reaching 2,020 in 1938 , five times the level reported ten years earlier . |
| 11 | Though the technique employed in The Dear Deceit represents a laying-bare of traditional narrative devices without offering an alternative approach , it sets the stage for the more radical break with the conventions of realism which Brooke-Rose 's fiction demonstrated four years later . |
| 12 | The court sentenced Colonel Rolando Cabezas of the Republican Guard police to 15 years for murder , while Lieutenant Javier Marquina got seven years . |
| 13 | Local schools , who have been involved in a railway poster competition to design images reflecting 150 years of local rail travel , will receive their first class family rail travel prizes from InterCity and the WSR at the same time at Taunton . |
| 14 | Racing : Trainer given 20 year ban |
| 15 | We can compare this with a similar attempt made eight years later by Stubbs ( 1983 ) , who distinguishes four main areas of language which teachers should know about if they are to be able to make informed decisions about language problems at school : |
| 16 | The left side is a highly sophisticated computer which , under deep hypnosis , would give you the data registered five years ago recording the number , make and colour of the car which was standing outside your home at the time . |
| 17 | Oxford Crown Court heard the 24 year old defendant attacked seventeen year old Ian Barnes onthe steps of Oxfordshire Social Services in Banbury in August last year . |
| 18 | This programme involves two years ( the first and last ) at college , and two years ' teaching in schools . |
| 19 | ALI BOUREQUAT AND HIS TWO BROTHERS ENDURED 19 YEARS IN MOROCCAN PRISONS WITHOUT CHARGE OR TRIAL . |
| 20 | GOLDEN couple Bill and Freda Jefferson celebrate 50 years of marriage today and put their happiness down to working together . |
| 21 | Mr McCrickard has two years to get the TSB into shape before the protection against takeover bids expires . |
| 22 | Nippon Electric has 10 years ' experience in making numerical control equipment and computerised design and manufacturing systems . |
| 23 | Her Greatest Hits ( Geffen ) album covers 27 years , beginning with the 1965 hit All I Really Want To Do . |
| 24 | Marshall , 34 , who announced his retirement from international cricket after the World Cup , has signed a new contract with the county and will fill a gap created two years ago when Paul Terry stepped down as No 2 to Mark Nicholas . |
| 25 | Nobel has three years to reduce its assets and pay off Nordbanken . |
| 26 | THE Lawn Tennis Association celebrate 10 years of tournament ratings this summer — the message : ‘ The sport in Britain at its grass roots is prospering like never before . ’ |
| 27 | THE MACC LADS celebrate ten years of writing songs about farting and suchlike with two gigs at London 's Marquee on March 29 and 30 . |
| 28 | The vote came five years after the synod called for draft legislation to introduce women priests . |
| 29 | As the critic noted eight years earlier , Ken , like the others , grew a little more grey , a little more lined . |
| 30 | Stewart presents a revealing citation analysis of the plate tectonic paradigm , in which he shows that the peak of citations to Wegener 's paper occurred sixty years after its publication , and the peak of citations to du Toit 's later defence of Wegener came thirty-two years after its publication , in the same year as the Wegener peak . |