Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | the sums in the premiums trust fund , it 's a very simple answer my Lord to notify now in the same way the commission suggested that they should notify some ten years ago |
| 2 | Pelite and Chelnock lakes , respectively supraglacial and proglacial , are fed by melting ice cliffs ; Crooked Lake is an open-valley lake fed by a through-flowing river , and there are many closed valley lakes reflecting the water balance prevailing over previous centuries ; one , Thalatine Lake , has over 40 minor beach terraces reflecting some 1300 years of evaporation . |
| 3 | The remains have always been visible , even though the temple was erected some 2,500 years ago . |
| 4 | She lived some 500 years ago in the times of King Henry VIIIth and Queen Elizabeth 1st . |
| 5 | In the United States the Supreme Court ruled some twenty years ago that " the weight of a citizen 's vote can not be made to depend on where he lives " . |
| 6 | Then I had to wait some three years , and the attitude in hospital and lack of administrative efficiency was unpleasantly conspicuous . |
| 7 | I saw Masha gliding through towards us : that unmistakable froth of brown hair , the exuberant , doll-like face ; and behind her , over-topping her , the bleak , dark face of Victor Surkov , his hair not grey as it had been when we last met some six years ago , but a brilliant yellow spreading down over his shoulders . |
| 8 | Lord Derby , who steered the Act through Parliament , would have felt quite at home with the parliamentary debate which took place after the 1952 smog some 90 years later . |
| 9 | My curiosity was first aroused some ten years ago when I heard of something being called the ‘ Freshwater Moray Eel ’ . |
| 10 | retired at the end of December 1992 having completed some 20 years service with and latterly . |
| 11 | In any case , Rutter 's ridicule seems a grotesquely inappropriate response to our constructive and it now seems , prescient , suggestion made some six years before he first presented his own distinguished views on the subject of lead pollution . |
| 12 | Their words , first published in 1951 , are quoted in the book beside portraits made some 30 years later ( 1976–79 ) . |
| 13 | In 1939 he became Secretary , a position he held until 1964 when he became Treasurer , and had completed 53 successive years as an officer of the Club . |
| 14 | He lived another five years . ’ |
| 15 | But he lived another seven years and continued working to the end . |
| 16 | Although Chernyshevskii lived another twenty-seven years , he never again walked the streets of the capital . |
| 17 | In this it was perhaps too successful , for it provoked so much hostility from the car lobby that reprinting of the book ceased some two years after it was first published . |
| 18 | Promoted thereafter as a source of cheap and clean energy , neither of which has actually been realised some 40 years on , nuclear power is a source of considerable debate in the late 1980s because of its annihilation potential in the case of warfare and the problems that characterise waste disposal from nuclear power plants ( section 5.4.3 ) . |
| 19 | In many ways it was a sad ending for a tutor who had given some twenty years to the cause of workers ' education in the county and perhaps the most sincere and apposite appreciation of her many qualities came most appropriately from a member of the Kettering branch : |
| 20 | He grew up in an age when the youth of the Netherlands were preoccupied with the tales of oppression and corruption in the colonial service revealed some 50 years earlier by the writings of ED Dekker ( writing as ‘ Multatuli ’ ) . |
| 21 | But the Conservative conversion , at Disraeli 's prompting , to the cause of reform , had to wait another fifteen years . |
| 22 | Fans of Mr Fox hope they do n't have to wait another twebty years to see him here again . |
| 23 | But Roosevelt was close to death , and the British had to wait another two years until the " brain-wave " at last arrived in the form of discreet signals from the US State Department — signals which led in due course to the European Recovery Programme and Marshall Aid . |
| 24 | The Roman Catholics had to wait another five years again , and I was already in Banbury when the Roman Catholic voluntary-aided secondary modern school was opened , in an odour of incense and the presence of an Archbishop . |
| 25 | Batty , who watched Blackburn 's disappointing goalless home League Cup draw with third division Shrewsbury Tuesday night , added : ‘ I have enjoyed eight good years at Leeds but I can see that Blackburn intend to go places . |
| 26 | We celebrate 70 fabulous years of GH , congratulate The Queen on 40 glorious years and pledge with Princess Anne to make this a successful year for our charity , Victim Support |
| 27 | Well if we do we 'll wait another sixty years anyway . |
| 28 | ‘ I expect your mother wishes you to remain unenlightened , since you must wait another four years for your bedding ! ’ |
| 29 | she said , " Why not wait another three years to do things more Iranian ? |
| 30 | Strandli has 2 1/2 years left of his contract with the whites and will go for around £500 000 , He will probably leave next week — if — Albacete will pay the demanded 500K . |