Example sentences of "[adj] year [noun sg] [subord] " in BNC.

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1 I 'd just like to ask er if it 's not to start on the er phase three before the spring of ninety five , it seems a long time two and half years time before they a , they make a start !
2 That contrasts with what some policies will lead to in a few years time if we are going to have complete closure of some long stay hospitalS .
3 A source close to Saatchi insists that there is ‘ absolutely no intention of dispersing the collection ’ and is equally adamant that ‘ the collection will be greater in five or 10 years time than it is now . ’
4 The charge would be on a preceding year basis although if additional funds are added to the account the income arising from the additional funds will be assessed on the actual basis in the early years .
5 Until now , those people who had more taxable benefits than allowances had to pay the extra tax in one sum after the following year end because the former PAYE system could not collect it .
6 if you wanted it more for , as a gift in ten , eleven years time as you 've said
7 They condemned the three year sentence as ‘ totally inadequate ’ .
8 In our series , 5 year survival after resection was 24% .
9 Of course during the ramp 's 11 year history as well as making professional skaters it has attracted a fair few .
10 As reported exclusively in Angler 's Mail , Kent-based Ashford AS gave up 12 miles of the canal after 88 years tenancy because of a long-running row with the National Rivers Authority 's Southern region .
11 So we 've got this group of people who are and just retired , they 're sixty-five and have just retired , and they 're looking forward to their pension le lo losing completely in two-and-a-half years time unless something 's done about it .
12 . In ten years time if you just give them a derisory thirty pence off people leave their children at home make it easier for them to bring them with them . .
13 At er well this week you sort of look back and say yeah but erm in about ten years time if you come and ask me the same question I would be able be in a better position to give you an answer .
14 One normally thinks in terms of the 3 year rule as applying to a person who emigrates from the United Kingdom whilst one considers that the 17 year rule is applicable to someone who becomes resident in the United Kingdom whilst retaining his overseas domicile under general principles .
15 But if you have n't got that amount of capital it takes capital out of your hands and you ca n't spend it in five years time if you need it because you 've given it away effectively forever .
16 ‘ It is a matter of some regret ’ , he writes , ‘ that the Court did not see fit to investigate civil law developments over the twelve year period since Corbett was decided . ’
17 The TUC called for a one year moratorium whilst its future was reviewed .
18 The overall three and five year survival after variceal harmorrhage was 68% and 54% respectively , which compares favourably with other published series for grade A and B patients .
19 10.7 The most exhilarating race came in the 15 years class as the Robinson twins of Coleraine battled out a nailbiting finish with Louise just pipping Emma by 0.05 seconds .
20 The horrors of eighteenth-century madhouses engender disbelieving revulsion in the twentieth century , yet throughout the last thirty years scandal after scandal has been reported in the press with depressing regularity and without the concern that might have been expected in an apparently liberal and caring society .
21 Anglo-French diplomacy before the Hundred Years War provided opportunities for ‘ cultural ’ connections to be exploited and sustained .
22 Christopher Casabona was sentenced to two years probation after a jury heard how he tied up a woman lodger at her Felixstowe home before leaving with a 15-year-old girl .
23 we did two years theory as well , no three years theory
24 Molotov concluded the parallel negotiations which he had been conducting with German representatives and thus secured two years grace while partitioning Poland with Nazi Germany .
25 ‘ An offender armed with a knife is in the same 14 year category as one armed with a blunt instrument .
26 Oh that was that was always done at new year time , or at least It was n't so much new year day as we called Yule Day .
27 But would n't it be a wonderful New Year gesture if the Government declared here and now that the first few million will be set aside to save St Bart 's .
28 DERRY City can set up a grandstand finish to the closest fought League of Ireland title race in its 71 year history if they beat Limerick at the Brandywell this afternoon .
29 THE next President of MCC , to take office in October , will be Dennis Silk ( pictured above ) , who after over 20 years service as Warden of Radley College retired in 1991 .
30 HEARD in a City tavern last night : ‘ I expect my husband to be just the same in 20 years time as he is now . ’
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