Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] years [conj] " in BNC.

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1 It could be only eight years before he becomes King William V. But unlike his father , he will be well equipped for another role — that of partner and parent .
2 It is wholly contrary to the philosophy of the Layfield Report published only eight years before rate-capping was enacted .
3 It was only twenty-one years since Salisbury had concluded his long and successful period of power , and only twenty-eight years since another peer ( Rosebery ) had presided ( although less successfully ) over a Liberal Government .
4 I do n't think it solves anything — it 's only twenty-one years since the last lot and I saw enough in Spain to make me hate it .
5 Out there in the pale grey dawn , did Mrs Plumptry sleep , a relatively young woman of only forty years or so , or lie with Stanley in her bed and hear the planes as they flew out to sea ?
6 Some manufacturers guarantee CDs for only 30 years but Mr Bert Gall , general manager of optical systems at Philips , said the life of the average disc should be more than 1,000 years , though it could be reduced to 50 if manufacturing was poor and the discs were mistreated .
7 Researchers predict that the forests will last only 10 years unless Soviet sulphur levels are cut .
8 It was only twenty-one years since Salisbury had concluded his long and successful period of power , and only twenty-eight years since another peer ( Rosebery ) had presided ( although less successfully ) over a Liberal Government .
9 PSR1706–44 has a short period , 102.4ms , a rapid spin-down rate giving it a characteristic age of only 17,300 years and considerable timing noise ( S.J. , R.N.M. , V.M.K. , A.G.L. & N.D'A. , manuscript in preparation ) .
10 He was finally given a pension , but by that time he was old , he was half paralysed , and he was nearly blind , and he died in eighteen thirty-six , only six years after he 'd received this recognition and this pension .
11 β cell function and insulin sensitivity are expressed as centile groups defined relative to a non-diabetic population aged below 35 years and weighing less than 115% of ideal weight .
12 It is only three years since she took up painting dogs as a profession , but in that short time she has been kept constantly in work .
13 A survey of earnings in the tax year 1976–1977 made by the Bar for the purpose of its evidence to the Royal Commission on Legal Services showed that the net fees of junior barristers ( before provision for pension , sickness insurance , indemnity insurance and national insurance contributions ) averaged £7,319 , but for barristers who had been only three years or less in practice were only £2,769 .
14 Margaret is a girl of only three years and is not of suitable age to take over this kingdom .
15 It was beautiful , two people loving one another all these years and Dr Greenslade being too much of a gentleman to leave his wife and family , and Miss Lavant giving birth to a baby and the baby being handed to a Dynmouth woman .
16 fears , perhaps three years And
17 In the vision of the Four Beasts in chapter 7 , Antiochus " changes the seasons and the law " and his rule will last " a time and times and half a time " ( 7.25 ) : perhaps three years and a half .
18 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 .
19 A cumulative succession of nasty surprises has dealt a further destructive blow to an advantage Mr Lawson has enjoyed for so many years that he may have come to taken it for granted : the effect on expectations of confident and respected official forecasting .
20 She 's been at my side for so many years that it 's more than just a business relationship .
21 It is not so many years since it broke away . ’
22 Once upon a time Fenna had brooded on a hoard for so many years and with such desire that it had quickened and grown , diamonds breeding and bringing up their young under his weight .
23 The Bioscope very much approved of the description of the movies as ‘ the drama of the masses , and went on to argue that the whole beauty of the movies was that they were for the first time providing amusement , ‘ the greatest factor in the life of.the masses ’ , to ‘ the millions ‘ who had been ‘ passed over for so many years and considered of no account ’ .
24 ‘ I admired him for so many years and was very proud to count myself among his close friends .
25 June Bascombe having given her report as Society Chairman thanked Kay Evans for the invaluable support she had given to the Society for so many years and presented her with a book token .
26 She saw affection and concern in his eyes , but imagined that the love was gone , the intensity of the gaze , that knowingness that she had shared for so many years as they had fought to find this place through the forest .
27 Life expectancy is only 58 years and 25 per cent of the people have no access to clean water supplies .
28 She was also subject to frequent spells of illness , and she died at Windsor Castle on 3rd May 1257 , only 3 years and 5 months old .
29 It was only 50 years since the first white settlement had been established at Port Jackson , and , although some semblance of order and ‘ civilisation ’ existed in the larger towns like Sydney , many of the outposts were still dangerous places to visit .
30 It 's only ten years since the Comedy Store opened , but already there is a note of wistfulness creeping in for the good old days .
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