Example sentences of "[adj] years [coord] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The World Cup series slalom at Holme Pierrepont on May 30th–31st will be the most important British slalom for some years and will draw a very high class field of paddlers ahead of the Olympic Games . |
| 2 | Rented accommodation has become scarce ; heavy mortgages often require two salaries for some years and can delay the date of marriage or cohabitation , or the start of parenting . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've had her two and a half years and would do anything to defend her . ’ |
| 4 | Monitoring and attempting to prevent the pollution will cost millions over the next few years and will be passed directly to the consumer as an unforseen expense . |
| 5 | Those of you who were present at the AGM will be aware that we have been told by the GAP that the Society 's grant will be drastically reduced during the next few years and will cease after 1991 . |
| 6 | He was to hold this position for the next thirty-one years and must therefore be regarded as a founding father of the organization which later became known as MI5 . |
| 7 | Radio-carbon or C14 dating was first applied in 1949 and together with other evidence now provides the chronology for the last 50,000 years and may be extended to 75,000 years . |
| 8 | He 's lived with her for six years but can only describe her job vaguely , as ‘ something in administration ’ . |
| 9 | Angered by suggestions that his conduct was inexplicable and that he had not offered any constructive criticism during a 3½ hour inquest into Yorkshire 's dismal summer , Boycott claimed that the cricket sub-committee would not accept any form of responsibility : ‘ They have been in charge for five of the last six years but will not agree that they are at least partly to blame for the fact that Yorkshire cricket is in a mess . ’ |
| 10 | It would last six years and would cost , at their own rough estimate , three million six hundred thousand and a few odd francs . |
| 11 | If you have been missing out , you may be able to claim back anything you have lost for up to six years and should receive a tax rebate . |
| 12 | The British Museum has ( or is believed to have ) some 5 or 6 million objects , so that a conventional stock-take of the entire collection could occupy all the qualified staff for five or six years and could be exhaustive only if all other duties were suspended for the duration . |
| 13 | ‘ I AM talking about a man that has done 26 years behind bars and if he had done the same crime today he would have got 10 years and would have got out five years ago ’ — actor Mike Reid on Reggie Kray . |
| 14 | The work could take 10 years and will be the trust 's biggest single building conservation project . |
| 15 | The dis-used brick pit has been a tip for 10 years and will continue as one for 30 more . |
| 16 | Sir : I am writing first to congratulate you all on an excellent magazine , I have been reading Computer magazines for the last 10 years and can honestly say that Practical PC is the most informative and enjoyable one to date . |
| 17 | The child learns this during the pre-school years and will also start to eat for comfort . |
| 18 | Although difficult to date he believes the trackway to have been in existence for at least 2,000 years and may well pre-date Roman times . |
| 19 | Initially , registration is for 7 years and may be renewed , ad infinitum , for further 14 year periods . |
| 20 | GERMANY 'S railway system will need £140 billion of investment over the next eight years and should be privatised to avoid a budgetary ‘ disaster ’ for taxpayers , the head of the rail network Heinz Durr told the government . |
| 21 | This is its highest level for eight years and will result in an increase of at least one per cent on home loan rates , possibly more . |
| 22 | Britain is committed to cease marine dumping of sewage within eight years and must at least quadruple its facility for incineration in order to meet this obligation . |
| 23 | Even Humberside county council is launching a campaign to show the people that they have been wrong all these years and should have loved it . |
| 24 | A qualified homoeopath will have studied for at least three years and will spend a great deal of time in compiling a detailed history of the patient , including character , antecedents , likes and dislikes and so on . |
| 25 | It will be paid in full for a period of three years and will then be reduced by one-third each year over the subsequent three years . |
| 26 | It is hoped the Forum will broker an average of £1m new projects a year in the first three years and will seek to raise the profile of the industry through international events and through press coverage . |
| 27 | The UK Department of Trade & Industry on Monday licensed a new transatlantic telephone operator on Monday , and the company has now begun operating : Swiftcall Ltd is using lines that it leases from Mercury Communications Ltd with calls to be delivered in the US by Sprint Corp , and will charge between 25 pence and 28 pence a minute plus tax , with a sign-on fee of £1,000 for companies , £50 for residential subscribers , the fee to be set against call charges until it runs out ; Swiftcall founder Tom McCabe told the paper that even at 30% capacity , he could reach annual turnover of £10m and make a substantial profit ; he plans a £2m investment in the first three years and will run the service with a staff of four from the World Trade Centre , near the Tower of London . |
| 28 | Discount levels are determined according to aggregate purchases over three years and will apparently be policed every four months . |
| 29 | Pegasus have won the shield twice in the last three years and will now play for the White Cup in the All Ireland play-offs late next month . |
| 30 | The machines have useful lives estimated at three years and will then be sold for £100 each . |