Example sentences of "[adj] years [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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1 | I 'll miss football and the day-to-day involvement after over 30 years boy and man . |
2 | For 20 of the next 30 years OCA and Wings Aviation Limited flew ‘ DRD out of Red Lake , using floats for the summer and Noorduyn-designed streamlined skis during the winter . |
3 | — Special presentation parties were held for George Flowers , treasurer of Framwellgate Moor Workmen 's Club , who has retired after 30 years service and for Consett Station Social Club steward Freddie Emmerson on his retirement . |
4 | In 1929 , after some years farming and big-game hunting , Annesley returned to Ireland to manage the family property . |
5 | It 's been re-opened today after 2 years renovation and the new tenants will be paying £15,000 this year alone . |
6 | 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 ! |
7 | OVER THE past few years Britain and her European allies have been trying to adapt a system designed to catch Warsaw Pact spies to the task of hunting international terrorists . |
8 | It was nothing like the transformation she would undergo in a few years time but it signalled the slow resurrection of her inner spirit . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | In his last few years Kuypers and Gabriella Ugolini made use of viruses which travel into the nervous system and multiply in a pathway so that they cross nervous junctions and spread detectably along a whole connected system : a quite novel labelling technique whose full potential now remains to be realised . |
11 | , SE region poultry adviser who has retired after 22 years service and more than 750,000 miles ! |
12 | In 1914 the Manor was purchased by a body of British subscribers and presented to the peoples of Britain and the United States of America in celebration of 100 years peace and friendship between the two nations . |
13 | The improvement occurred even in women more than 10 years postmenopausal and in both ulcerative colitis and Crohn 's disease . |
14 | 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 . ’ |
15 | We talk to him in his language and we have tried to lift as much of the experience from his mind as we can so that it does n't fester , get covered over , then burst out in 10 years time and turn him into a disturbed child . |
16 | Anchorlite Slate is the result of 10 years research and development to produce a replacement for natural slate that is virtually indistinguishable both in weight and visual appeal . |
17 | Pipe Major John K McAllister is stepping down after 45 years service and Pipe Major George McFetridge after 35 years . |
18 | Because we must remember that Iraq has already had an eight years war and they 're used to a war , they used to withstanding a war and it was the only reason that Britain survived in the last world war because it could withstand attack , and wait and wait until they were ready to counter attack . |
19 | Jimmy Carter 's presidency , like that of Gerald Ford , began on an optimistic note with commentators deriving satisfaction from the fact that for the first time for eight years president and Congress would be in the hands of the same party . |
20 | Fifty years drumming and still going strong is legendary figure John Rea from Saintfield Pipe Band , who is still much in demand as a leading Irish and Scottish adjudicator . |
21 | One of the most advanced examples of development has been CLIMAP ( Climate , Long Range Investigation , Mapping and Prediction , Hays and Moore , 1973 ) which has made a reconstruction of global sea surface , ice extent , ice elevation and continental albedo for the northern hemisphere summer at 18,000 years BP and this has provided the boundary conditions for global general circulation models to simulate the climate when the northern ice sheets were at their maximum extent ( see Lockwood , 1983a ) . |
22 | if you wanted it more for , as a gift in ten , eleven years time as you 've said |
23 | In later years Barcelona and the region to the north formed part of the kingdom of Arragon , and acted as a buffer against Saracen invasions into the rest of Europe . |
24 | I mean , we do n't stand still at this because what will seem a very good service this year will look like a lousy service in five years ' time so let's not pretend the fact that we have n't achieved everything we 've achieved this year in some previous years means that we have n't made any improvements because I think one of the key areas where in fact er improvements have been made in previous years , and to a certain extent , one could say reading this I was worried by an apparent admission of very much reference or very much expenditure on them in the provision of day centres , because I think that a key element in care in the community and the fact that today so successfully this year has been the fact that a major number of th and I do n't think there 's any disagreement over this , a number of day centres , very efficient and very effective day centres , were developed , funded , provided mainly in the conurbation areas and I think Mr is right to highlight the fact that , as so often happens in these instances , it 's people who live in conurbations who get the best deal because it 's , it 's more economical , it 's easier to provide a centre for a large number of people than it is for a small number of people . |
25 | For the last three years Steve and Rose have lived in London , having moved from Nottingham so that Steve could take a course in carpentry . |
26 | Over the next three years Dun & Bradstreet says its business will evolve into three different areas . |
27 | If you said well you ca n't apply this time , you may be able to in three years time but pragmatists they like something that they can take away and then put into practice straight away and they can try out . |
28 | In just three years fish and fishkeeping have taken over reader JAY CHANDLER 'S life . |
29 | As well as being one of the founders of the Automobile Club de France and the Aero Club de France , Salomons was the first director of the City of London Electric Lighting Company and for many years treasurer and vice-president of the Institution of Electrical Engineers . |
30 | For many years Iceland and New Zealand have used geysers and aquifers to provide space and water heating and in Britain research work that began in 1973 on hot dry rock is still continuing at the Camborne School of Mines , Cornwall . |