Example sentences of "[adj] years [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another four men and three women were sentenced to prison terms of between four and 30 years on charges of murder and piracy [ for January execution of alleged counter-revolutionary see p. 38715 ] . |
| 2 | During over 30 years of adventures Bonington has faced great danger — he admits he is lucky to be alive — and lost many friends . |
| 3 | He says : ‘ The initial expectation was that Eastern Europe would replay the last 30 years of telecommunications history in Western Europe , buying miles of copper cable and so on . |
| 4 | ‘ Love Thirty in tennis parlance ’ , writes Bellamy in his Introduction , ‘ fits in neatly with 30 years of airports , hotel rooms and press boxes , and suggests a manageable number of essays . ’ |
| 5 | Victoria Woodhull Claffin — later 19th Century free-thinking radical feminist who was the first woman to run for the office of United States President over 30 years before women 's suffrage . |
| 6 | The loss of bone mass is recognised as a universal characteristic of ageing — beginning at around 30 years in women and 50 in men — although there are wide differences in the amount and rate of loss . |
| 7 | This month sees the publication of a new book by Doug Scott , recording his climbing career over the last 30 years in photographs . |
| 8 | Formed to fill a long-standing local need , ‘ Cheshire Lines ’ is the culmination of some years of suggestions and discussions by quite a number of railway enthusiasts in the Stockport area . |
| 9 | Tommy and Bren , as they are affectionately known , are now in their 80's ( as indeed are most members of the WHAM choral group ) and are probably best remembered for their haunting rendering of songs such as ‘ Roamin' in the Grogan ’ , ‘ Old Mother Hibbard ’ and ‘ Annie , Get Your Pistoll ’ during their teenage years with WHOOPS ( Wichita , Home Of Other People 's Songs ) . |
| 10 | Lord Chief Justice Lord Lane said P C Tom Cawley had already served 2 years for offences he certainly never committed , on fabricated evidence . |
| 11 | This would seem to be more representative and would allow some 2 years between turns ! ! ! ! |
| 12 | The great German constitutionalist , Heinrich Triepel , writing in 1906 , looked back on nearly forty years of developments within the German Empire and explained how the early guarantees that the Empire would remain decentralised were soon swept away in the flood of new laws , most of them imposed by Prussian ministries and conforming to Prussian practices . |
| 13 | Now I 'm an ex-gardener I 'm a horticulturist it take roughly about forty years for trees to reach maturity it does n't say much for our planners if they plan to put those trees there and then now are gon na have them up again it sounds much like change for changes sake and that that it basically my comment . |
| 14 | Perhaps , in some unimaginably distant region , the cosmos simply melted away into Chaos without sane dimensions — so that all the immensity of physical reality , all the billions of light years of stars and galaxies without number , amounted to no more than a tiny archipelago within a dire and senseless ocean of absurdity . |
| 15 | It was Tax Day , the deadline for Americans to file their tax returns , and the day that a New York judge had ordered Mrs Helmsley , 71 , to surrender to jail after two and a half years of appeals following her conviction for cheating the Internal Revenue Service ( IRS ) of $1.7 million . |
| 16 | They are all proud to be Horse Rangers and the demand to join is so high that there is a waiting list of four years for junior members ( known as Ponies ) aged seven to ten years , and two and a half years for seniors , aged ten and over . |
| 17 | All told , life expectancy has increased by two years for women in Britain in the last decade , and by two and a half years for men . |
| 18 | Life expectancy has increased by two years for women in Britain in the last decade and by two and a half years for men . |
| 19 | In the first few years at Rangers , he was sent off for striking five different opponents . |
| 20 | It concerns privatisations that have taken place in the past few years under processes and with measures of regulation which the Government said were more than adequate , dismissing all our criticisms . |
| 21 | In the same way , all examinations make considerable demands on teachers ' time in terms of involvement in Examination Board work , running examinations in school and subsequently marking them ; but an examination like GCSE , with radically new features , is likely to involve considerably more time over the next few years for teachers to become able and proficient in its procedures . |
| 22 | To be fair most of us were P C's for quite a few years without radios and we worked out extremely well did n't we , without those radios |
| 23 | A few years of storms with plenty of rain would probably have undermined this place anyway . |
| 24 | The new standard is the result of much hard work over the last few years by manufacturers , contractors and specifiers . |
| 25 | Many beekeepers have been examining their bees carefully for the past few years in efforts to find the mite . |
| 26 | This had begun to develop significantly in the past few years in terms of quality . |
| 27 | You only have to look back over what 's er happened over the last few years in terms of for example O S Two , Microsoft Windows , a variety of Unix , and you 'll see that technologies will come along and however sound a decision you make at one point in time the market circumstances and potentially mean that what was right for you then not the right . |
| 28 | For example , a search for " women and their fight in society " would lead to a message to the effect that there is no book described by all the words of the search , but the system would nevertheless retrieve four items ( in the PCL catalogue ) , the first of which is titled Hidden from history : 300 years of women 's oppression and the fight against it . |
| 29 | A top European Community official said earlier that Washington would kill off six years of talks aimed at freeing world trade and boosting the global economy if it went ahead with retaliatory sanctions over EC oilseed subsidies . |
| 30 | A top European Community official said earlier that Washington would kill off six years of talks aimed at freeing world trade and boosting the global economy if it went ahead with retaliatory sanctions over EC oilseed subsidies . |