Example sentences of "[prep] [num] years [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is obvious from his writings that Battuta was most impressed by what was to be for eight years his adopted city . |
| 2 | After six years his father sent him to work in the bonded tea house of Sanderson Fox in London , to broaden his experience . |
| 3 | AFTER 26 years our English Electric fridge has just packed up . |
| 4 | After 11 years our workforce remains inadequate , blighted and above all , neglected . |
| 5 | After ten years his views are still totally different from the rest of the band . |
| 6 | With our standard fixed scheme , after 3 years your payments simply revert to our standard variable rate . |
| 7 | After five years my two colleagues left , one to return to Canada and the other to become assistant priest at Rangoon cathedral , so I was left to do my best with all the subjects of the curriculum , except for occasional help from visiting clergy or teachers . |
| 8 | Will the Secretary of State acknowledge that , given that after five years his Government have completely failed to establish a Select Committee on Scottish Affairs , he has no credibility in the constitutional debate in Scotland because he has no proposals to make ? |
| 9 | It does n't sound much , but if we ignored those extra few hours , after four years our calendar year would be a whole day ahead of the solar year . |
| 10 | After two years her owner felt that she had run out of options : Anna was a horse without a future : she could never be a riding horse , nor would she ever breed . |
| 11 | After two years his sight began to return in one eye . |
| 12 | After two years my work was extended to include a number of musical shows , including piano recitals , with such international personalities as Egon Petri and the Australian baritone , Clement Q. Williams and his accompanist-wife , Enid Conley . |
| 13 | These past five years my pernicious enfeeblement has meant that six months of the year I have had to hibernate , to entomb myself in the disused redoubt beneath Cliff Top , but at last I am free . |
| 14 | Some time previously and after a wait of five years my name had been proposed and seconded for membership , but when my proposer heard that two members were of a mind to blackball me in the ballot , he ( without telling me ) withdrew my candidature . |
| 15 | It 's the third time in 2 years his house has been raided and the second in the space of a week . |
| 16 | Within three years their efforts paid off . |
| 17 | He was recognised as an excellent judge of Clydesdales and within ten years his horses were winning the breed 's major honours . |
| 18 | Within ten years his plan , simple and eminently sensible , was agreed by all the railway companies and — shortly afterwards , and to all intents and purposes — by all the states . |
| 19 | In twenty-five years his tally reached 400 . |
| 20 | If he had not returned in twenty years his son , Don Benedetto , should inherit his lands and administer his fortune in the normal way . |
| 21 | If they reduced their blood cholesterol level by 10 per cent , within two years their risk of heart attack would go down by 20 per cent . |
| 22 | Henry Smith was in fact Irish , having been born in Dublin on 2 November , 1826 , but within two years his father died and the family moved to England . |
| 23 | Within two years our course will probably include SPDL , a brief coverage of the ODA DAPs , and one hypermedia framework . |
| 24 | His pronouncement that ‘ when your application is not done in two years its running at zero MIPS no matter what hardware is running on your desk ’ was greeted by cheers from the audience . |
| 25 | But Sweden has also promised that in 20 years its emissions of carbon dioxide ( CO 2 ) , the main greenhouse gas , will have dropped to 1986 levels . |
| 26 | The PLO felt able to play what had been for fifteen years its ‘ last card ’ — recognition of Israel — because it had gained a stronger one through the Uprising . |
| 27 | I missed very much the man who was for fifteen years our first trombone ; he trained the group to the very highest level . |
| 28 | Mr Stobart , who has run Jodie 's for nine years his first venture into the catering business said he knew , after six unannounced visits by Egon Ronay testers , that the restaurant was going to be included in this year 's edition . |
| 29 | For seventeen years my life was very happy . |
| 30 | For twenty years his widowed mother had kept a small shop in a St Helens slum , only accepting an occasional small amount of money and putting off other help with ‘ the same naive reply : ‘ It 's very good of you , dear lad , and I appreciate it , but as long as I can manage it , I shall prefer to have my feet under my own fender . ’ |