Example sentences of "[noun] of [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | TL dates of three burnt flints have been measured at the British Museum , and these straddle a mean of 190.000 years BP , but there is a large variation about this mean because of the inhomogeneity of the radiation environment in the cave outlined above . |
| 2 | All are well , a mean of 9.75 years ( range 6–12 ) after programme entry date . |
| 3 | Two are unaccounted for after a mean of three years . |
| 4 | Fifteen patients had colectomy for failed medical treatment after a mean of 15.6 years ( range 9–32 ) disease duration . |
| 5 | Twenty five remain well , a mean of 2.5 years ( range 2–10 ) after default . |
| 6 | There was a mean of 50 years age difference between the 22 young subjects and the 28 old subjects studied . |
| 7 | Fourteen of these patients are well , a mean of 9.4 years ( range 3–12 ) after what should have been their programme entry date . |
| 8 | The patients , nine men and seven women , ranged in age from 25 to 70 years , with a mean of 54 years . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , his girlfriend of 17 years , Jenette , was delighted when Brian popped the question . |
| 10 | It is based on a real-life episode of seven years ago : the murder of an elderly Jewish-American tourist on a Mediterranean cruise ship by Palestinian terrorists . |
| 11 | The terrace parterre is to be restored to match its appearance during its heyday before the First World War , and an extensive programme of tree planting is under way to replace the losses of recent years . |
| 12 | After concluding the deal through an intermediary , John H. Ross , Collins arranged to have the case transferred from another judge and then sentenced the man to 42 months ' imprisonment despite a recommendation of eight years by the probation officer . |
| 13 | If you took my recommendation of three years ago and developed a fingerstyle approach to your playing , you 'll have no problems here ! |
| 14 | Some will argue that it was the decade when ‘ real ’ music was murdered by Stock , Aitken & Waterman or rap , but on the other hand the ‘ real ’ musician of mature years had never had it so good-Chris De Burgh , Fleetwood Mac and Eric Clapton never sold so many tickets , or so many records . |
| 15 | We may wait two hours in the cold or dark , but when the show starts , it 's a moment of magic , ’ says Gertrude Holle-Suppa , 44 , a veteran of 20 years on the circuit . |
| 16 | The cast of Jack and the Beanstalk at the Wyvern Theatre in Swindon , is risking all by working with both children AND animals , but Trevor Bannister , veteran of 20 years of panto takes it all in his stride . |
| 17 | Fred Rea , a veteran of forty years here , came in the other day . |
| 18 | Meanwhile Chris Dunkley , our pilot who 's a veteran of ten years ballooning explained the appeal of festivals : |
| 19 | At the end of our period , developments in Soviet-dominated Europe still further altered the ecclesiastical map quite decisively , though the longer-term consequence of the sudden collapse of forty years of communist domination is , in 1990 , impossible to predict . |
| 20 | The mention of six years suggested to me that Alec might be a doctor but I was wrong . |
| 21 | And the mention of twenty years reminds me that that must be the number of summers you own to , Miss Abbott and that being young and having spent the afternoon in the sea air , you must be hungry . ’ |
| 22 | He 'll be putting the disappointment of this years boat race behind him to lead the challenge next year . |
| 23 | Save for the case where a Prime Minister is to resign as the result of advanced years , and therefore where speed is not essential and an ordinary party election could take place , the following course of action is proposed to find a new Prime Minister for a continuing government . |
| 24 | The expansion in manufactured exports to Portugal was the result of sixty years of prosperity in the gold mines of Brazil . |
| 25 | I would like the Prime Minister to visit Wallsend because he visited the neighbouring Conservative-held constituency and saw the destruction arising from the Meadowell riots as a result of 13 years of Thatcherism . |
| 26 | He had enough private means to be able to follow his own highly original path of historical research and reflection , so that his first book , The Age of the Gods ( 1928 ) was the result of fourteen years of research . |
| 27 | She would have respected Simon Copley more if he had been less prone to venial selfishness , less preoccupied with his physical comfort , but this she told herself was probably the result of fifty years of spoiling by a devoted wife . |
| 28 | The next election will be lost or won not as the result of a few weeks ' electioneering , of media events , of soundbites , but as a result of four years of radical but sensible campaigning in our towns and villages . |
| 29 | 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 ] . |
| 30 | 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 . |