Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] four years " in BNC.
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| 31 | The code applied to all Anglo gold and coal mines and was the result of four years of negotiation following the 1987 miners ' strike [ see pp. 35622-23 ] . |
| 32 | The report is the result of four years study by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis ( IIASA ) , a non-governmental organisation funded by scientific organisations in the east and west . |
| 33 | Unlike the summer house interview of four years earlier , they were defensive and ill at ease . |
| 34 | And European planetary scientists believe that ESA 's advisers rejected the Kepler mission to Mars mainly because of its cost : at £300 million it was twice as much as ISO , and would have left a gap of four years before anything else could be funded . |
| 35 | President Roosevelt was re-elected in the United States of America , in November 1940 , for a further term of four years , so the ‘ lend-lease ’ arrangements were then undertaken to enable Britain to receive much needed supplies . |
| 36 | The People 's Chamber consists of 400 deputies , who are elected for a term of four years by the people in a free , general , equal , direct and secret election . " |
| 37 | On 3rd July 1892 , a cloud burst on a hill to the west of Langtoft , on almost the same spot where the waterspout of four years earlier had fallen , gouging out two great fissures in the chalk , and rushing along the valley of Briggate towards the village . |
| 38 | Pru-Bache lost $250m in 1990 , its third loss in four years . |
| 39 | Selkirk … . 16 Boroughmuir .. 9 EVEN with three replacements permissible it is not always possible to cover the loss of a key player , as Boroughmuir discovered when suffering their third defeat in four years at the hands of Selkirk , this time by a 16-9 margin . |
| 40 | There 've been five home secretaries in four years and civil servants are unclear which direction ministers will take next . |
| 41 | From nine months to four years a child can use a seat in the back that faces forwards and which can be secured by rear seat belts or their anchorage points . |
| 42 | Sit in comfort For ages six months to four years , this reclining car seat has been approved by the Civil Aviation Authority for use in aircraft when fitted with a lap belt |
| 43 | The mothers talking in this book are mainly in their mid to late teens , with children whose ages range from a few months to four years . |
| 44 | Infants — aged 18 months to four years — get to sing , but the keynote is ‘ free musical improvisation , ’ as Steve explains . |
| 45 | They were infected by the ideas of the Enlightenment and were ready to welcome the Napoleonic soldiers and administrators who incorporated the Slovene lands into the Illyrian Provinces in 1809 for a brief , but fateful sojourn of four years . |
| 46 | Aware of Trevor 's previous record , the FA sentenced him to a 152-match suspension , a ban of four years . |
| 47 | While they had shared championship success when they had first met , after a split of four years it was their second era together that brought the ultimate honour for them both — the 1987 Open Championship title . |
| 48 | Introduce fixed-term Parliament of four years , with a known date for the next election , subject to an earlier election only if the government loses a special ‘ explicit ’ vote of no confidence . |
| 49 | I 've worked with him now over the course of four years , I know him backwards . |
| 50 | ( S. ) 468 , where a sentence of four years imprisonment was upheld for robbery of a taxi driver who was threatened with a lighted cigarette and a knife , although he did not suffer injuries comparable with those suffered by the victim in this case . |
| 51 | The reference to Murphy suggests that a sentence of four years would have been upheld on an appeal by the offenders . |
| 52 | Miroslav Stepan , former Communist Party secretary in Prague , was sentenced on Oct. 22 to 30 months ' imprisonment following confirmation by an appeal court of his July conviction on charges of abuse of power connected with the suppression of a Prague demonstration on Oct. 28 , 1988 ; a second charge relating to a January 1989 demonstration was referred back to the Prosecutor 's Office [ for his conviction and initial sentence of four years ' imprisonment see p. 37737 ] . |
| 53 | In March , after disappearing from the scene for four years , when lack of interest caused its temporary demise , the event was reborn . |
| 54 | . Very unusually for anybody to stay in that work for four years . |
| 55 | I have been out of work for four years . |
| 56 | I 've been fighting this battle for four years and we 've eventually got there . |
| 57 | Sheard , a resident in East Anglia , has lived in England for four years and is awaiting the result of her application for British citizenship , but Maritz believes that her golfing future lies in the United States . |
| 58 | The elder has been in Normandy for four years now , Stephen can hardly count him as the staunch supporter he used to be . ’ |
| 59 | The event has been staged at the Royal Albert Hall for four years . |
| 60 | The event has been staged at the Royal Albert Hall for four years . |