Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] year [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You also told me that for eleven years you were national coach and team manager to the United Arab Emirates . |
| 2 | Well considering nothing 's been done for fifty year I suppose really |
| 3 | The most common rates for building up a pension are 1/80th of earnings for each year you have been in the scheme , or l/60th . |
| 4 | All in all , he had been departmentally punished on twenty-seven occasions , an average of once for each year he had spent in the force . |
| 5 | It is obvious from his writings that Battuta was most impressed by what was to be for eight years his adopted city . |
| 6 | In August 1920 , almost by chance , he was attached for a year to the small peacetime signal intelligence organization in London , and was then posted to Simla in India , where for eight years he performed cipher-breaking duties with remarkable success . |
| 7 | For eight years I had revelled in the dual careers of journalism and broadcasting , between 1929 and 1937 , and these years coincided with the ‘ boom to bust ’ period , winding up with the deepest depression of the century . |
| 8 | For eight years I was a county councillor having won a seat from the Conservative Party . |
| 9 | During that year he worked with all four Silbermann brothers , including Johann Gottfried and Johann Heinrich ( 1727–99 ) , the nephews of Gottfried Silbermann . |
| 10 | He said : ‘ During that year it was decided that there was life beyond Impact 92 and that it was time to look at a total economic development strategy for the city rather than just a one year one . ’ |
| 11 | The completion of the Corrieyairack road — it was also the end of the road-building season for that year which ran from April to October — was made the occasion of a notable celebration , here described by an eye-witness : |
| 12 | If a company meets these requirements in any year and is therefore entitled to the accounting exemptions for that year it will also be entitled to the same exemptions for the following year , regardless of whether or not it meets the criteria . |
| 13 | The important debate in my opinion that we shall have this Committee stage and it is for that reason and also because for four-and-a-half years which I think is regarded as a very long time , I was answerable for police affairs er with the Home Secretary in another place , as the Noble Lord , Lord Callaghan will remember , many years ago , it goes back to January nineteen fifty-eight when I became Under Secretary and he was political advisor to the Police Federation and we very rarely disagreed I 'm happy to say . |
| 14 | I do very much appreciate this invitation although , for another year I 'm afraid , I must tender my apologies . |
| 15 | For thirty-nine years he had devoted himself to the British public . |
| 16 | ‘ For 30 years we have asked for it to be culverted and we have been promised that it will be done . |
| 17 | ‘ For 30 years I always painted on the spot , even in deep snow . |
| 18 | Bob Peckham has been juggling for 12 years he regularly entertains shoppers in Oxford city centre . |
| 19 | For 12 years he aided Tony Hart in making children 's television more entertaining . |
| 20 | Being with the band for 12 years you might think that Marlene would get fed up with their music . |
| 21 | All managers in the production department at Betts Tubes in Stevenage have been involved in ITED and during this year it will be extended to other employees . |
| 22 | During this year my father too succeeded in overcoming his difficulties with the language and with his new pupils . |
| 23 | For forty-five years I was something I was n't . |
| 24 | For thirty-one years he was a fellow of the Linnean Society , serving on the council in 1921–4 and 1927–32 , being vice-president in 1931–2 and president in 1927–31 . |
| 25 | For forty years he had n't been able to bring himself to venture into it again . |
| 26 | It is one of the remotest places in the British Isles … for forty years it has been the victim of a real topographical tragedy … a manufacturing town of 50,000 people where a rural centre of 20,000 would have been sufficient . |
| 27 | For some years her vision had only enabled her to find her way about her house : she could not read and could scarcely see her television . |
| 28 | For some years we prospered , until the slump of 1930 , followed by another setback in 1933 , when the Nazis first appeared , and the final blow when the World War II commenced . |
| 29 | For some years they stood largely empty , occupied only by the ghosts of yesteryear , prey to vandals , fire and decay . |
| 30 | My difficulty was further compounded by the fact that for some years my father and I had tended — for some reason I have never really fathomed — to converse less and less . |