Example sentences of "[adj] year [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Italy has had a tobacco advertising ban for 30 years and cigarette consumption has actually risen during that time , ’ said Mr Milburn . |
| 2 | It would be some years before electronics could become the final authority . |
| 3 | Some years before lie had resigned from the forces for their sakes and was personnel manager of an oil refinery in Perth . |
| 4 | In retirement Leslie launched the Oswestry Festival of Village Choirs , which absorbed him for some years until underfunding brought it to an end . |
| 5 | Case D , although ranked 3 , earns 7000 more in the first 2 years than case C , which is ranked 1 . |
| 6 | Case D , although ranked 3 , earns 7000 more in the first 2 years than case C , which is ranked 1 . |
| 7 | I lay there , my eyes and head swimming through the last forty years until sleep finally bailed me out . |
| 8 | Only a few years before alcohol prohibition was repealed in the United States in 1933 , public sentiment was similarly dominated by the opinions of the country 's prohibitionist leaders . |
| 9 | Staff turnover has been high in the last few years as school closure has loomed closer . |
| 10 | Your family would n't hold you back , and you have a professional qualification that 's highly in demand wherever you go , if you wanted to stay a few years and work . |
| 11 | In some areas the precise details of the ban coverage has changed over the last few years and climber are requested to check that they re aware of these updates . |
| 12 | Does my hon. Friend agree that those figures reflect a sharp improvement in this country over the past few years and scope for some of our Community partners to do more to encourage unleaded petrol sales ? |
| 13 | He was deputy convener of the region for 12 years and leader of the Conservative group for ten years . |
| 14 | He was deputy convener of the region for 12 years and leader of the Conservative Group for ten years . |
| 15 | After 12 years as president , Husni Mubarak is rediscovering an old paradox . |
| 16 | Tordjman expects software products to grow faster this year than engineering and systems integration , but he would like to maintain the same division of revenue for the next few years . |
| 17 | And the policy is bearing fruit : India 's economy will probably expand by more than 5% this year and inflation is down to 7% . |
| 18 | According to Sunsoft , it attributes this delay — it originally promised developers kits by the middle of this year and end-user versions by year-end — to a number of factors . |
| 19 | These increases continue with gross margin expected to be up by 14 per cent by the end of this year and profit increased by a further 23 per cent . |
| 20 | Following a visit to Ingrow on August 11th this year and reading of reduced membership and escalating costs at the Bahamas Locomotive Society , I wrote the following day , as an ordinary member of the public , to their Secretary with the ‘ bare bones ’ of a suggestion for raising funds . |
| 21 | The market expects a jump in profits from £3.4m to £4.2m pre-tax this year and news of further contract awards , together with a few senior management appointments , is expected soon . |
| 22 | Pru motor premiums have gone up three times this year and house contents insurance rose by 20p in the £1 this July and further increases can not be ruled out . |
| 23 | None of them expects miracles in the economy this year and growth forecasts range from a bare 0.2 per cent to 2 per cent . |
| 24 | None of them expects miracles in the economy this year and growth forecasts range from a bare 0.2 per cent to 2 per cent . |
| 25 | Further acquisitions in this direction are likely late this year if reconstruction plans progress satisfactorily . |
| 26 | ‘ I started this year as number three and now I 've played the biggest game of the season so far , ’ he said . |
| 27 | Bob Eaton , 52 , actually joined Chrysler in April this year as vice-chairman , after a prolonged search for a replacement for the retiring Lee Iacocca , arguably the car industry 's most charismatic figure . |
| 28 | This is where you agree to a percentage rebate on sales at the end of each year , half year or quarter . |
| 29 | She had just spent a weekend at home in Belfast dutifully admiring the latest Hennessy grandchild and enduring countless little digs about good Catholic girls and settling down to raise a family instead of racketing about the world enjoying herself — as if it was such a sin to enjoy life , for God 's sake , she thought angrily , and anyway six years as Sister in the accident and emergency department of the Audley Memorial in Suffolk hardly constituted racketing ! |
| 30 | The agreement , under which the government expected to save $1,000 million , included options for the creditor banks ( i ) to make new bond loans carrying a 15-year maturity and seven-year grace period before payment of interest which would be equivalent to 20 per cent of their exposure ; ( ii ) to offer 30 per cent discounts on bonds for loans swaps in return for guarantees on principal and interest payments and additional payments after six years if oil prices rose beyond a specified level ( thought to be $26 per barrel ) ; ( iii ) to cut interest rates to 5 per cent for two years before gradually raising them ; or ( iv ) to allow the Venezuelan government to buy back existing loans at larger discounts ( estimated to be 60-65 per cent ) should the banks be willing to take the loss . |