Example sentences of "[adj] [num] years [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My own case at this point was by no means typical of the average or a product of the time — some 12 years service , and my five years as an NCO pilot coming to an end . |
| 2 | Deputy Curator Rob Shorland Ball stated that while there were no immediate plans for her future operation outside the museum there is still a further three years life left on her ‘ normal ’ boiler certificate . |
| 3 | I am confident that in some ten years time , Save The Children will be a strong pan-European organisation , perhaps the strongest as such within the European Community . |
| 4 | What we 've got now is what we 're going to have in another ten years time ? |
| 5 | Even in Liverpool , which had some eighty years experience of organization to protect the shipowning interest in parliament , there was " an utter and lamentable want of cohesion among employers ' on matters affecting labour . |
| 6 | celebrated 25 years service at the Louth maltings in February . |
| 7 | Alternatively , it may be a prerequisite for the evolutionary development of intelligence — which leads us to the premonition that , in a few billion years time , there may be intelligent lugworms stalking the Earth . |
| 8 | For another five years work , so I served five years in Germany too as a , as a miner . |
| 9 | And er there was a stage when we came to the , where we really decided we 'd have to earmark different streets , how far we were gon na go in the centre of the town , because people were beginning to get grants for altering houses , and then in another five years time the council , the council were having to buy back these houses to redevelop the area . |
| 10 | At the conclusion of the liturgy , Bishop O'Brien presented Faculty Certificates to 150 Ministers who were recommissioned for a further five years service . |
| 11 | Inspired by the martyrdom of Joan of Arc and backed by the forces of Burgundy , the French expelled the English from all their former possessions except Calais , bringing the so-called Hundred Years War to a successful conclusion in 1453 . |
| 12 | Where have historians sought the causes of the so-called Hundred Years War ? |
| 13 | You could store these for another two years mum . |
| 14 | Well another two years car then I 'm free to have what I actually want or what I would like . |
| 15 | Throughout the lunar core samples , which extend well below a few millimetres , the exposure ages of the grains are similar at all depths and correspond to a few million years exposure to the cosmic-ray intensity in the present Solar System . |
| 16 | It was compiled by the Rev Frank Goodridge , who was for some thirty years Chaplain Superintendent of the Royal Association of the Deaf ( RAD ) , a regional charity operating in and around London and Oxford . |
| 17 | At the end of March one of the carpet trade 's well known personalities , Jack Millar , National Sales Director of Stoddard Templeton , retired after forty two years service . |
| 18 | retired at the end of December 1992 having completed some 20 years service with and latterly . |
| 19 | Although the dog-collar is but an innovation of a mere 100 years antiquity , the wearing of robes are more venerable . |
| 20 | With the next World Cup due to be held in less that three years time the Wallaby coach and skipper warn that |
| 21 | Over the previous three years perestroika had become a reality ; the Soviet people themselves had changed , and were facing facts that had earlier been obscured from them . |
| 22 | In the previous four years GNP had grown at an average rate of about 3 per cent per annum which was lower than the preceding years and unemployment had reached a peak of 8.3 per cent in 1970 . |
| 23 | During these seven years profit amounting to £3,691 was realised allowing many of the old debts to be cleared . |
| 24 | It is worth reflecting what a most remarkable contribution women have made to Save The Children throughout its seventy four years history . |
| 25 | Within those five years desktop publishing has , or so it seems , become an integrated part of the electronic office . |
| 26 | Okay , erm I 'm a littl I 'm a little bit I 'm a little bit worried about er this er exploitation of people and security because they 've got no proven record and no medical evidence , if he was that good this guy will be a millionaire and people will be growing hair all the time , to put somebody on the chair , without knowing if that person 's got blood pressure or heart problems , they could suffer from a s a stroke erm have er or be partially paralysed , so I I think I like to see this man here maybe in ten fifteen years time with proper proven er medical evidence . |
| 27 | One visionary speaker at the British Association ( science ) meeting in 1984 spoke of the likelihood of rats the size of wolves inheriting the Earth in 50 million years time , when Man — in all probability — is no longer on the scene . |
| 28 | In that 13 years manufacturing output under his Government in Britain has gone up less than 6 per cent . |
| 29 | This makes a grand total of 1,031 tons 14 cwts. for those first 12 years operation . |
| 30 | Consequently in the first six years implementation was patchy . |