Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Goldsmiths conferred with the Bishop , and Bower was eventually dismissed two years later . |
| 2 | They would receive some form of ‘ on-the-job ’ training and , after successfully completing two years of teaching , could become fully qualified as teachers . |
| 3 | THE WOOD Group Offshore team working at the Hamilton Oil base in Great Yarmouth attended a presentation in recognition of successfully completing two years without a lost time incident . |
| 4 | She was spurred on to write 10 years ago when she appeared in The Gentle Touch , the TV series about a top woman cop . |
| 5 | Britain 's biggest manufacturer of generic pharmaceuticals was only formed two years ago and it has not yet become familiar within the business , let alone a household name . |
| 6 | He was the gentleman , of good character and with important friends , and only got seven years . ’ |
| 7 | He spoke of his incentive to art as being that of ‘ exhilarated despair ’ and from nearly all of his paintings there emerges a scream as chilling as that which Munch so memorably depicted 99 years ago . |
| 8 | So expect two years of dull , decent , gritty competence , explain the Major-domos — and steady , unspectacular results . |
| 9 | It had to look ordinary enough to appeal to a much broader market than the CX , but quirky enough to attract 15 years ' worth of loyal CX owners . |
| 10 | The areas through are the safe was only built fifteen years ago , right the way through . |
| 11 | That was only done twenty years later , in 1279 . |
| 12 | What planning should he undertake with respect to inheritance tax — bearing in mind that under the deemed domicile provisions in IHTA 1984 , s267(1) the taxpayer is deemed to be domiciled in the United Kingdom if he was so domiciled three years immediately preceding his death or he was resident in the United Kingdom in not less than 17 of the 20 years of assessment ending with the year of assessment in which the death occurs ? |
| 13 | And once he makes this decision he he ca n't after a year or two say well no that was wrong , I wo n't I 'll er I 'll change now because he 's only got two years there . |
| 14 | He 's only aged eleven , he 's only got four years before he has to have something assessed anyway . |
| 15 | They 've only got six years . |
| 16 | We 've only got eighty years of disappointment to draw on . |
| 17 | We 've only got eighty years of disappointment to draw on ’ GIBSON : ‘ Nobody has expected us to go up ’ |
| 18 | You 've only got seven years to go ! |
| 19 | They say more needs to be done to reduce the noise level from the new section of the M-Forty which was only opened two years ago . |
| 20 | So began eight years of happy fellowship , under an editorial committee of six members . |
| 21 | On the Rio Negro in Amazonia it apparently takes 80 years to reach half the mature biomass , suggesting that a return to forest is possible . |
| 22 | I only spent six years of my childhood there during the war years . |
| 23 | Financial settlement is only reached seven years later . |
| 24 | So if they all come along with lots and lots of money they 'll all have fifteen years . |
| 25 | Bill Oddie was the first comedy hippy , they had stupid hit singles ( something Python only managed ten years after the event ) , they got stuffy BBC presenters to do daft things ( Raymond Baxter in string underpants ) and , true to form , they went to ITV in 1980 and were crap . |
| 26 | It 's only taken two years |
| 27 | Shortly afterwards , however , in 475 the emperor conceded the Auvergne to Euric in return for Provence , which the Visigoths had apparently overrun two years previously . |
| 28 | Folasade and her boyfriend had both been pleased when she got pregnant ; they were still together alter three years and hoping to build a stable future for themselves . |
| 29 | Despite the large numbers of cases reported in the American literature , half of them associated with menstruation , the original description of Todd et al in 1978 was of seven patients all aged 8–17 years and none associated with menstruation . |
| 30 | If you knew you only had five years to live , what would you do ? |