Example sentences of "[adj] years [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One may be amused — though not very — that after living in Italy for forty-five years Max still could not speak Italian , but such insularity is not to be imitated . |
| 2 | During the next few years Miloš gradually increased his influence within the administration of the pashalik , using the considerable wealth at his disposal to bribe Turkish officials . |
| 3 | We 're working at things which the players might not appreciate at the moment but they will in 10 years time when they look back on what they have achieved . |
| 4 | In first and second years students normally take courses in both disciplines , together with an appropriate outside course such as Computer Science or Mathematics . |
| 5 | During these years Wordsworth also began The Ruined Cottage ; this was later incorporated into Book i of The Excursion and suffered considerable modification . |
| 6 | I find it amazing that Shakespeare 's still as popular as ever , and I started by asking Tony why this was the case , and why after all these years people still seem to be able to find something new to say about him . |
| 7 | What happens in two or three years time when the ANC 's political aspirations have not been met. ? |
| 8 | For many years lap-steels far outsold Spanish-style guitars ; in fact , the first electric guitars of the late '20s and early '30s were nearly all Hawaiian-style instruments . |
| 9 | In his latter years Tilden also studied the specific heat of metals over a wide range of temperatures , and the history of chemistry . |
| 10 | So if that figure is removed from the spending total the current increase is only two point three percent above the settlement for nineteen ninety three , ninety four and being twenty eight million pounds , or one percent , below the current years budgets actually represents a four percent real terms reduction and that is a measure of the cuts which the government this year wishes to force on local government . |
| 11 | In 50 years time when they celebrate the 100th anniversary , they 'll have an aid , a time capsule containing photographs and documents about the life of today 's garrison , buried will bring back the memories . |
| 12 | Quartet notch up 25 years service apiece |
| 13 | Our drivers and recently notched up 25 years service apiece . |
| 14 | Now what that actually means is that in ten years time when that money matures , that policy matures |
| 15 | Three girls , see you 're lucky really cos if they 'd had three boys an i , in a few times , you know , ten years time like , they 'd have all , the boys would of been growing up and they 'd have had cars stuck everywhere , you know what I mean ? |
| 16 | That is not systematic momegliture that has gone like that for ten years universities still use it ! |
| 17 | Going on to the inter-war years the authors note that there was no great reduction in the number of incidents reported in the press , despite the reputation of the large crowds of those years fur generally good behaviour . |
| 18 | The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book , Arbeau , Frescobaldi , Froberger — in those years people suddenly realized that there had been music before 1700 . ’ |
| 19 | In those years socialism finally ceased to look undeniably left-wing , whether east or west of the Iron Curtain ; and if fiction changed its politics in that age , so did the world around it . |
| 20 | AIDS victim Alberto Gonzalez , 28 , got five years jail yesterday for trying to murder a girl of 17 by unsafe sex . |
| 21 | and therefore you can have a situation where , I mean if the Queen is there for another twenty years say , say the situation in twenty years time where you have king on throne and a queen who have not lived together for thirty years or whatever years and you know still playing out this |
| 22 | In twenty years time maybe they wo n't feel so self-conscious , but I do n't think we should lost sight of the point that what they 're getting a tiny , tiny sense of is what women , a large number of women , feel all the time . |
| 23 | There were double celebrations at Key Street in April , when and completed 40 years service apiece , having started work for on the same day — . |
| 24 | Over the last several years 23% more IBMers are working with customers . |
| 25 | Descartes , indeed , was with the armies of Maximilian of Bavaria in 1619 at the very beginning of the Thirty Years War when , at Neuberg on the Danube , he had that sequence of dreams which convinced him that his mission was to seek out truth by means of reason . |
| 26 | The ruin of the German economy which was completed by the Thirty Years War also brought the ruin of the Fuggers . |
| 27 | Erm and I suppose you could regard the Thirty Years War too er as being a , a total war in this sense in , in that the objectives of the war is the crushing of opposition , unconditional surrender . |
| 28 | It was three centuries and the Hundred Years War indeed before the English lost it , in which time Bayonne did well , not least as a centre of the wine trade with England equal in prosperity to Bordeaux . |
| 29 | Well another two years car then I 'm free to have what I actually want or what I would like . |
| 30 | Over two years patients routinely attending the diabetic outpatient clinic were asked to provide first morning urine samples from three consecutive days before each visit to the clinic . |