Example sentences of "[prep] those [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when , after those two years , the valley had almost imperceptibly widened and there was for the first time , not those black enclosing cliffs , but the vista of a normal life , even of happiness , a landscape over which it was possible to believe the sun might shine , she had become unwittingly embroiled in the racial politics of her school . |
| 2 | Thus , five years after Imo 's invention , 80% of the macaques in the troop between the ages of 2 and 7 washed potatoes ; but only 18% of those eight years or more washed potatoes , and all 18% were females . |
| 3 | Mr. J.T. Stanley had been Head of Art since 1949 , and as Form Master of 1A for most of those thirty years , was the introduction to School for almost half the annual intake . |
| 4 | Mostly , she was off ; travelling the world with Mr Gibbon , her constant companion for twenty-nine of those thirty years . |
| 5 | I think of Oreste day and night and weep to think he will be two years of age when this second child is born and of those two years I have had so little . |
| 6 | Everyone from the governor to the humblest creeping ‘ trustie ’ knew that Michael Holly would serve only a minimal proportion of those fifteen years . |
| 7 | The late Earl Spencer said : ‘ How many of those fourteen years were happy ? |
| 8 | Then if it 's not going to be taken up on one of those five years , you have to leave that payment , you lose it . |
| 9 | Most of those ten years which had bound us together were spent out of doors . ’ |
| 10 | Can I , you the example you did before to other people was that if you worked you know your normal scheme forty years and if you worked for ten of those forty years you become deferred . |
| 11 | She began to see herself , the self of those twenty years ago , as just a part of Willi and Gerda 's pleasure . |
| 12 | There will no longer be a requirement to include an accountant 's report in listing particulars or circulars unless there has been a significant change in the company 's financial position within the last three financial years , or its accounts in any of those three years have been qualified . |
| 13 | At a concelebrated mass , Bishop Gray presided and with Father Brendan McDonald , who opened the school , the present parish priest , Father David Peters , Father David Woodler , Father Paul O'Grady , and a packed congregation , gave thanks for the many achievements of those 25 years . |
| 14 | We took four years to do it , partly so people would get accustomed to the idea , and it was fantastic that during those four years people worked at least as hard and as well as they had in the previous four . |
| 15 | He was acquitted , but virtually denied any time for family or politics during those five years . |
| 16 | During those five years many more in the village died . |
| 17 | Five years The tenant 's right to compensation under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 , s37 , may be excluded or modified by agreement unless : ( 1 ) during the whole of the five years immediately preceding the date on which the tenant , under a tenancy to which the Act applies is to quit the holding , premises being or comprised in the holding have been occupied for the purposes of a business carried on by the occupier or for those and other purposes ; and ( 2 ) if , during those five years , there was a change in the occupier of the premises , the new occupier was a successor to the business carried on by the old occupier ( Landlord and Tenant Act 1958 , s38(2) , ( 3 ) ) . |
| 18 | The situation was concealed in 1968 and 1969 as short-term capital was attracted to US banks by high interest rates : $12 billion flowed in during those two years , more than covering the long-term capital outflow . |
| 19 | During those two years , I have also come to believe that with the help of two powerful tools we can turn people on to the quality process . |
| 20 | Fourteen years The tenant will be entitled ( in certain circumstances ) to compensation under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 , s37 , equal to the production of the appropriate multiplier and twice the rateable value of the holding if : ( 1 ) during the whole of the fourteen years immediately preceding the termination of his tenancy , premises being or comprised in the holding have been occupied for the purposes of a business carried on by the occupier or for those and other purposes ; and ( 2 ) if during those fourteen years , there was a change in the occupier of the premises , the new occupier was the successor to the business carried on by the old occupier ( Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 , s37(2) , ( 3 ) ) . |
| 21 | During those 23 years , what one might term our membership fees in Europe have shown net outflow of at least £15,036 million according to the 1991 HMSO Pink Book . |
| 22 | I had seen him now and again during those ten years , before his sacking . |
| 23 | During those 50 years ICI 's acrylic plastics have been used by thousands of customers for tens of thousands of applications and current sales worldwide are of the order of 60,000 tonnes a year . |
| 24 | During those twenty years I have told the story to only one other person . |
| 25 | The present halberdier , Alf Jackson , had accompanied him for those thirty years . |
| 26 | ‘ I think he wrote a little to you every single day for those eight years , posted the thick , heavy letters when you were found again . |
| 27 | According to Ata'i , Baghdad became a mevleviyet only in 947/1540–1 , some six years after the Ottomans had taken it : a marginal note adds that for those six years it had been administered by kasabat kadis . |
| 28 | We argued for those seven years on the pitch , at half-time , and at the end of the game . |
| 29 | Through her time of growing up , Miranda had had to talk so loud to interrupt the brawling , crying , canoodling jag that was her parent 's marriage , to entertain so insistently in order to divert them from the partying , bickering , kiss-and-make-up affair that absorbed them totally , that she had become as deaf to tremors and to nuances as her former games mistress shouting ‘ Bombs Coming Over ’ or ‘ Scrub the Decks ’ through a megaphone in the gym at the dim convent Miranda had been sent to for those three years of her childhood when the family had been in funds . |
| 30 | Er we 've been in , ten years in this shop and er , for those ten years I have experienced a lot of er difference in the attitudes of Muslim women as well . |