Example sentences of "[adj] year and [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His second reputation as one of the 20th century 's most important poets was achieved gradually over 30 years and nearly a thousand poems . |
| 2 | Those which are being discarded , usually after 30 years and around 750,000 miles ( 1,200,000 km ) of service , are sold at £8,000 each and go on to another life overseas . |
| 3 | See well over 50,000 exhibits collected by Jan and Graham Upton during the past 30 years and now shown on three floors of authentic Victorian style Shops . |
| 4 | The growing tendency for women in many developed countries to postpone legal marriage until between ages 25 and 30 years and then to begin having children also implies health risks . |
| 5 | Engineer Peter William Barlow sank the first hole in the ground on Tower Hill in 1869. 130 years on we 've got creaking trains that have been in service for 30 years and more . |
| 6 | I 've been a true Red for 30 years and more . |
| 7 | Aycock has not shown for some years and so fans of her precisely-crafted contraptions have a great treat in store when her show opens at John Weber on 13 February . |
| 8 | The carving is a superb piece of craftsmanship but most of its fruit , flower and dead animal motifs are straight copies of a section of bought-in 17th-century carving , doubtfully by Grinling Gibbons , which had been in the city form some years and now lies behind lock plate glass doors in the Public Library on College Green . |
| 9 | Blaney 's success in the States lasted for some years and then , in 1910 , the affluent company decided to tour Great Britain . |
| 10 | ’ He paid for some years and then ceased payment . |
| 11 | Having survived the early years of childhood , unlike so many of his siblings , he had been struck down by that other malady which afflicted a tragically high proportion of those who lived on into teenage years and beyond . |
| 12 | Peter has with CCG for the past 2 years and also has 20 years experience in servicing ‘ blue chip ’ clients and business development . |
| 13 | In a recent Government report , experts say , ‘ We recommend that vitamin supplementation ( including A , C and D ) should be given to infants and young children aged from 6 months up to at least 2 years and preferably 5 years . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ We recommend that vitamin supplementation ( of vitamins A , C and D ) should be given to infants and young children aged from 6 months up to at least 2 years and preferably 5 years . ’ |
| 15 | We 've got this on our doorstep for twenty thirty forty years and longer . |
| 16 | Are you , is someone gon na pay into a insurance scheme for forty years and then suddenly be told , well you do n't qualify ? |
| 17 | No British government in the past forty years and more has been elected with even a bare majority of the votes cast . |
| 18 | Apparently this did nothing to alleviate the situation , and the house was uninhabited for many further years and then fell into disrepair . |
| 19 | I packed up I packed up for two and a half years and then erm when we went to Spain in August , no in October , the four girls went me and me two sisters and a friend from work , Barbara . |
| 20 | The yacht harbour , Muelle Deportivo , has seen many improvements in the last few years and even more are planned for the future under the dynamic president of the port , José Manuel Hernandez . |
| 21 | He remained at sea for a few years and probably visited the United States . |
| 22 | Finally , as the advanced further education pool is virtually certain to be reduced , in relative terms , in the next few years and consequently the survival of some institutions may be at stake , NAB 's most difficult job is likely to be to steer public sector higher education through the stormy seas ahead with as little long-term damage as possible . |
| 23 | Yet in most of the cases they present , the hoaxer was found out within a few years and promptly punished with significant disgrace . |
| 24 | We are looking forward to ever-increasing production from our huge investments in the past few years and therefore , even if the oil price remains flat , to ever-increasing cash flow . |
| 25 | : Ma for a few years and recently we 've reassessed the doses and also we 've reassessed the risks so those two things together have caused us to express our concern and to advise the government what to do about it . |
| 26 | The first cultivators in Africa , as in all parts of the world , would farm a field for a few years and then , when its fertility began to drop , move on to an adjacent , or occasionally distant , area where high yields could be maintained for a similar period . |
| 27 | He retired from public life for a few years and then returned to full prominence . |
| 28 | New sayings are on everyone 's lips for a few years and then for no reason they disappear , becoming as dead and as dated as the dodo . |
| 29 | For this reason , the Institute will restrict the examination to candidates who have been trained by holders of the Dip CITT. for a few years and then review the situation to see whether the professional structures have developed enough to sustain new entrants . |
| 30 | We expect BP Exploration 's production to remain broadly at 1992 's level for the next few years and then to rise after 1995 . |