Example sentences of "[adj] year [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the room they had shared for 30 years since they had moved in to claim his inheritance . |
| 2 | All the old favourites are there in a medley of hits which , like him , have hardly failed to age over 30 years since they first hit the charts . |
| 3 | ‘ It is 30 years since my father 's first victory here and I am sure he would have been the first to have congratulated Ayrton on breaking his record of five wins . |
| 4 | Joan nursed at the Memorial for more than 30 years before she retired due to ill health . |
| 5 | Adding to his work of 30 years before he proved Galois ' assertion that if a finite group G contains pm elements , p being a prime , when G contains a subgroup of order p . |
| 6 | It took him more than 30 years before he told anyone other than friends of his terrifying experience . |
| 7 | There may be a latent period of 30 years before it actually erupts . |
| 8 | Golf 's popularity was putting pressure on the course because more local people played , and earlier in the day than previously , so the Artisans ' starting time was brought forward to ‘ no later than 8.30 a.m. ’ ( 30 years before it was 9.30 a.m . ) . |
| 9 | The technique in question is Bob Blake 's Managerial Grid , still going strong 30 years after it was developed in the US , and likely to show new life in the UK now that management consultants P-E International have taken on the somewhat dusty licence . |
| 10 | He still lives on the outskirts of his adopted city close on 30 years after he signed for them . |
| 11 | One resident , who did n't want to be named , moaned yesterday : ‘ It 's been called Eldorado Close for 30 years and we all used to like it . |
| 12 | I have lived in Grey Street for over 30 years and we have never had a bus service in all that time , so when it was introduced last year everyone was delighted . |
| 13 | It has served its country dutifully for over 30 years and we are delighted to be its new custodians . ’ |
| 14 | Obviously the standards are not satisfactory but they are the same as they have been for the last 30 years and they are of Mr Pritchard 's choosing . |
| 15 | We have been here 30 years and I do n't want to give up the No 10 . |
| 16 | Also , I 've been on my own for 30 years and I 'm rather set in my ways . |
| 17 | I 've worked in for 30 years and lots of us have worked for over 25 years and we do know that they are bringing in trainees in on higher salaries than ourselves , which obviously is quite upsetting when you 've worked a long time . |
| 18 | During his time at the flour mill ( which is actually 30 years if you include an earlier spell ) he has been mixerman , cuber operator , machine man , bran packer and even cleaner — when there were seven employees per shift ! |
| 19 | Harry put in 410 League appearances for Crystal Palace and that stood as a record for over 30 years until it was overtaken by Terry Long in the late 1960s . |
| 20 | ‘ My father-in-law was well aware of all this ; it has been going on for some years but he would not do what was necessary to right the situation , that is cut out the loss makers and , perhaps , substitute other lines — stationery , office equipment , videos or any other line compatible with the book trade . ’ |
| 21 | Margaret was in the Air Force for some years but I could n't say what they did for work . |
| 22 | It was only after some years that he found the Thun-Hohensteins , who had also taken refuge in Bavaria , and could give it back to them . |
| 23 | I 'm beginning to be quite confident that we were right , though it will be some years before we can be really certain we 've made the breakthrough . |
| 24 | Though debt-for-equity swaps represent one way for banks to recover part of their developing country debt exposure , they still stand to lose money and look likely to have to wait for some years before they can cash in their equity stakes . |
| 25 | It was some years before they were replaced and the legend on the present bridge at the airport tells the story ; Built 1885 . |
| 26 | no it was some years before she re-married again |
| 27 | The drug 's being tested by cancer specialists … although it could be some years before it 's generally available . |
| 28 | It was some years before I went that way again , and something had happened . |
| 29 | It was some years before I actually tried to ride it , and that was all because of the kindness of Martin from Sunderland . |
| 30 | The high sides will help prevent the gravel being kicked into the garden , so it will be some years before you need to top it up . |