Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The teaching profession has recently made a beginning in this direction , allowing one salary increment for each three years of child rearing . |
| 2 | During that eight years ' task , those at the heart of it were learning themselves how to pray more deeply and contemplatively . |
| 3 | chair for that five years and , there were constantly people parking on the pavements , which necessitate you |
| 4 | They 've done this for that three years now and they |
| 5 | Although the Labour Party adopted a policy of ‘ comprehensive education for all ’ in 1951 no political action to implement it was taken for another 14 years . |
| 6 | With this in mind the Canadian Rugby Union has confirmed that Ian Birtwell 's appointment as national coach will be extended for another four years , placing him in firm control of the key decisions relating to player selection as he looks ahead to 1995 . |
| 7 | The solution lies within the Tory Party , which will remain in power for another four years and so has a duty to revive and spur the nation towards the next millenium . |
| 8 | Although I did n't live with Marian for another four years , it was because of her that I finally left . |
| 9 | We lived there for another four years , until it became too difficult for me to manage the stairs . |
| 10 | He lived for another four years while his empire lapsed into chaos . |
| 11 | Because once you have let them go you ca n't begin to get them back for another five years . ’ |
| 12 | Addressing the final Tory news conference later , Mr Major reaffirmed he was confident of winning a majority sufficient to keep him in power for another five years . |
| 13 | Her will included legacies of twenty pounds each to her Frome cousins , Mary and Sarah , the daughters of her uncle John Titford ; she was not to know that Mary would die just two months before she did , though Sarah , as we shall see , survived for another five years , long enough to bless the generosity of her Surrey cousin . |
| 14 | Tolkien had finished The Lord of the Rings by 1949 , though it was refused on his terms and did not begin to appear for another five years , on a non-royalty agreement — to be coolly received by reviewers at home and rapturously welcomed in that heartland of Anglo-Saxon romanticism , the United States of America . |
| 15 | Fortran8X was laid to rest for another five years before being resurrected and renamed Fortran90 . |
| 16 | Fortran8X was laid to rest for another five years before being resurrected and renamed Fortran90 . |
| 17 | Section 47 of the Criminal Law Act 1977 , was not brought into force for another five years until 1982 , Ministers of both parties having accepted the advice of Home Office officials that the provision was too risky to implement at a time of acute overcrowding in the prisons . |
| 18 | In November 1633 Crowe had been appointed ambassador at Constantinople , though he was unable to take up the appointment for another five years . |
| 19 | For another five years work , so I served five years in Germany too as a , as a miner . |
| 20 | The 1984 economic and security co-operation accord with Libya [ see p. 33435 ] was renewed on Feb. 19 , 1990 , for another five years , but now covered only economic , social and cultural links . |
| 21 | Gary Harriss says he hopes to be an amateur for another five years play in the walker Cup and then turn pro … |
| 22 | After the last recession ended , unemployment climbed onwards and upwards for another five years . |
| 23 | and we do n't see it and it 's disgraceful that for another five years they 're going to get even less and less |
| 24 | Though the import of the announcement was obvious to Indians , it seems not to have been obvious to the British government , which avoided making any explicit statement on dominion status for India for another twelve years . |
| 25 | Emma Cons lived on for another twelve years , continuing to work at her housing projects : but a new chapter had opened in the history of what was to become the Old Vic , as Lilian Baylis began to programme it for early films and then light opera and later Shakespeare . |
| 26 | After 1893 the crime declined in Kurunagala , but not in the Low Country , where organized networks of thieves continued to operate for another fifteen years . |
| 27 | Government policy does not explain why the organized networks only covered certain areas , or why the illicit trade declined in Kurunagala at the end of the nineteenth century , but continued to thrive for another fifteen years in the Low Country before suffering a similar decline . |
| 28 | It was to lie in ruins for another sixty-one years . |
| 29 | The Flying Scotsman may never again set any records for speed , but loved and cared-for , no doubt she 'll go on holding a place in the hearts of steam enthusiasts for another 70 years , a reminder of the days when trains were smoky , dirty , smelly , and beautiful . |
| 30 | Thus the finding of a series of coins terminating in about 150 BC could not be used as evidence that the occupation of a site ceased in about that year , for even if occupation had continued for another hundred years , no other coins would have been available to be used and lost . |