Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think that authors requiring protection should assign copyrights to their institutions , or to the research council supporting the work , and inform the publisher that this body will give the publisher an exclusive licence to the material for perhaps two years . |
| 2 | Bogs accumulate carbon for thousands of years ; trees may accumulate carbon more rapidly for perhaps 100 years , but the carbon will be released when the timber is harvested . |
| 3 | I have n't been to an organized campsite for perhaps fifteen years , so all this is new to me . |
| 4 | The capacity and speed of optoelectronics make it an ideal means for simplifying switching and routing with optical networking a possibility for perhaps 10 years time — a prospect that researchers from University College are currently co-researching with British Telecommunications Plc in Harlow . |
| 5 | In fact all his empties could be let at low rents for perhaps three years . |
| 6 | The development of new levels or stopes , which are either simply for exploration or which will not produce any ore for perhaps three years , can eat up about a third of a mine 's operating costs . |
| 7 | Not only is a comparison between only three years potentially misleading ; there are very considerable divergences between trends in victimization and recorded crime for specific offences , which are concealed by the coincidence in the overall direction ( Hough and Mayhew , 1985 , Dowds et al . , |
| 8 | Sparks had been my life for only 16 years , but long before I joined I had admired its style , history and clientele — over a century of selling fine Chinese art , for the past 60 years from that great drawing-room of a shop in Mount Street . |
| 9 | Glover has been training for only five years , and many a famous name has yet to come within spitting distance of the race , so the achievement was remarkable . |
| 10 | He was Keeper of Western Art at the Ashmolean for only five years , between 1984 and 1989 , but besides organising a number of exhibitions and doing all the other things that Keepers do , he managed — quite extraordinarily — to produce this massive three-volume catalogue of the 785 later sculptures then under his care . |
| 11 | An event that has been occurring for only five years before the enactment of the 1986 Act is of a more dubious standing . |
| 12 | ‘ My name 's Allan Scuffle , and I 've been a full-time singer for only four years . |
| 13 | It is clear the event has Wilson in its grip , despite his being associated with it for only two years . |
| 14 | The new system ran as a parallel track for only two years , and all of the students were volunteers . |
| 15 | The Lycée was to hold this self-determined spirit for only two years then he was taken on by Balmain , at that time one of the grandest of French designers . |
| 16 | And when , as late as the Wednesday morning , Law announced that , as the doctors had passed him as fit for only two years , he could not accept the role which attendance implied , the Baldwin forces were sunk in gloom . |
| 17 | In fact , they had known each other for only two years , and had been lovers for most of that time . |
| 18 | Although he had lived at Baskerville Hall for only two years , everyone liked him . |
| 19 | Stapleton told me that he and his sister had lived in Devonshire for only two years . |
| 20 | Despite having played for only two years , June Denholm , from Torness Finance department , is already beginning to make her mark in the game . |
| 21 | For Opposition Members to paint a negative picture of TECs failing to do what they have been set up to do is not good enough , because , after all , they have been in existence for only two years . |
| 22 | He had lived outwith Scotland for only 5 years but during that time he had travelled further by land and had seen a greater number of interesting places than most people do in a lifetime . |
| 23 | It was flat , and having been open for only fifteen years , was not criss-crossed with sewers , gas and water pipes which otherwise would have required costly re-location . |
| 24 | His patent application for ‘ Apparatus for Brewing and Distilling ’ ( no. 5,974 ) is dated 1830 , and he was granted a patent for Ireland for only fourteen years from 1831 . |
| 25 | Bruce and Pat Cottrill , of Colwyn Bay , are furious that killer Frederic Blancke has been jailed for only 15 years , which means he could be free before the end of the century . |
| 26 | It can be seen , therefore , that there has been a nucleated village at Wharram Percy for only 400 years or so out of at least 2000 years , and that , in effect , the village as a form of settlement was an aberration , the single farm being the normal settlement from which the land was worked . |
| 27 | The office of Keeper of the Registers and Records of Scotland existed for only twenty years , terminating in 1948 . |
| 28 | I have been Secretary of the Institute for only three years . |
| 29 | In 1819 , when Danzig had been the provincial capital for only three years , and for reasons that are unclear , the Prussians moved the function of administrative capital to Königsberg . |
| 30 | Contracts were to be awarded for only three years , as the ITA hoped that by 1967 a fourth channel would be available and require more radical reorganization . |