Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [num] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are also concerns about how realistic it is to expect directors , let alone auditors , to confirm for one year ahead of the date the accounts are approved that their company will be a going concern . |
| 2 | A Devon labourer who promised his mother not to marry in her lifetime , finally married only at the age of 51 : ‘ bugger , we was courting for seventeen year . |
| 3 | Because the concern here is with general trends and not annual variations , the rates are calculated for five year blocks . |
| 4 | The trial was halted after one year instead of the planned three after 20 per cent of patients taking only zidovudine died compared with only 10 per cent of those taking a ‘ cocktail ’ of zidovudine and acyclovir . |
| 5 | Thirty-two social workers participated in the study ; 13 used the schedule designed for 3–4 year olds , and 19 that for 16–18 year olds . |
| 6 | This game is similar to games you would buy for 2–6 year olds that had Zoo animals cut out of the board with little pins on them , The child would try to fit the animal back into the right shape . |
| 7 | If for example someone has to choose between two £100 credit arrangements , both involving say about one year 's monthly instalments , then any difference in APR between the two competing alternatives is a convenient guide to comparative costs . |
| 8 | She admitted destroying property by fire and making hoax telephone calls and was conditionally discharged for one year . |
| 9 | Cunningham was conditionally discharged for one year and ordered to pay a total of £65 compensation . |
| 10 | No sex differences were found in the rate of problems but the difficulties were found to persist for one year in about two-thirds of these children and to persist for over five years in about one-third . |
| 11 | AGE-SPECIFIC RATES — The frequency of demographic events ( live births , deaths , marriages , etc. ) that occurred during one year in a population defined by age ( usually one or five-year age groups ) and also often by sex relative to the size of population of the given age or age group ( and sex ) relative to the mid-year size of the same population ( expressed per 1,000 population ) . |
| 12 | An increase of up to 20 per cent in the number of science teachers would be required to provide the extra lessons recommended for 11–18 year olds . |
| 13 | Margaret says she looks after 35 year old Andrew 24 hours a day . |
| 14 | A strong immunity to reinfection develops after one year . |
| 15 | Postings to specialist courses are made by the Personnel Management Centre , for which recruits can apply to be nominated after one year in the service . |
| 16 | The former , which are open to full-time lecturers in further education establishments in Wales , lead either to the Post Graduate Certificate in Education ( Further Education ) or to the Certificate of Education ( Further Education ) and consist of two periods of eight weeks ' attendance at the Faculty of Education of the University College , interspersed with one year 's supervised teaching and tutorial sessions in the student 's own institutions . |
| 17 | For example , after several years of operation within the Eastman Kodak Company , the estimated value of ideas harvested in one year alone was approximately $300 million ( over the lifetime of the idea ) while the cost of connecting the ideas through an OI network containing 19 offices was only 0.3% of the potential revenue ( Rosenfeld and Servo , 1988 ) . |
| 18 | It is important to book as early as possible , since kennels fill up quickly at peak times , with customers booking from one year to the next . |
| 19 | We used to regard any inflation as an evil ; there were years in living memory when prices hardly moved from one year to the next . |
| 20 | It is a massive con trick — Or will Labour go back to very large Government borrowing , on the scale that occurred in one year under the last Labour Government , of 9.5 per cent . |
| 21 | I think part of the problem with the station youth centre , surely is that , we do n't seem to know from one year to another , what the future 's gon na be , other , you know , there does n't seem to be any forward planning whatsoever . |
| 22 | This chapter examines two aspects of organizational planning : the corporate plan , which usually covers a period of three to live years ; and the annual budget , which looks at one year of that plan in much greater detail . |
| 23 | Current drugs education materials targeted at 13-17 year olds are based on two premises : i ) that substance abuse needs to be approached in the context of the general use of legal drugs in society and ii ) that young people should be encouraged to make rational decisions about their use of drugs on the basis of criteria related to personal health , self-identity and relationships with others . |
| 24 | Compacts should be targeted at 14–18 year olds . |
| 25 | The Coventry leg , the second of the LTA 's 1991/2 Junior Winter Indoor Circuit , was won by 17 year old Karen Cross , from Devon , her first 18 and under title . |
| 26 | The Michelmersh Silver Band provided excellent music , and entertainments included a competition in fly casting which was won by 13 year old Helen Carter . |
| 27 | This type of contravention of the offence will be gradually phased out by the new ‘ life ’ licences , although such offences could be committed by 70 year olds , provisional licence holders on expiry of such a licence and people suffering from certain disabilities who can only hold licences for restricted periods . |
| 28 | As an addendum , it might be worth saying something positive , following public statements by the Metropolitan Police Commissioner , Sir David McNee , about the need for improved discipline in schools and the high proportion of offences committed by 10–16 year old children . |
| 29 | Yet outside of her home in east Belfast , few people in tennis would have heard of 16 year old Zara Wolsley . |
| 30 | In 1903 the Poplar Guardians leased for one year a new workhouse specifically for the use of able-bodied men . |