Example sentences of "[prep] [num] years there " in BNC.
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| 1 | After fifty years there were 143 of them , responsible for the upkeep of 3,400 miles of roadway from the tolls parliament allowed them to levy . |
| 2 | After five years there would be no controls at all . |
| 3 | One set of 10 pellets was left on a dry ledge against a south facing wall , and after two years there had been some erosion of the surfaces of the pellets but the pellets were still largely intact . |
| 4 | Thus the National Child Development Study which covered all children born during a week in 1958 found that at the age of 7 years there was a far higher proportion of children from the lower socio-economic groups who had not been immunised against smallpox , polio and diphtheria . |
| 5 | However , over the age of 80 years there is little difference between the sexes . |
| 6 | And although the City Council has managed over the years to old council house rents down , I think for three years there was absolutely no rent increase and then only about a nine per cent increase , although we 've managed to hold council house rents down until |
| 7 | Within fifty years there were several silk factories employing four hundred to eight hundred persons , but the silk industry was of secondary importance and did not initiate the factory system . |
| 8 | And there 's also something else that I forgot to bring up and that is that they 're trying to find new ways of removing the gases , and they reckoned that in 2 years there 's going to be an electrical method , an electrical filter , and the lab is 99% efficient . |
| 9 | Alas , within 10 years there were too many locomotive builders for the small number of orders being produced in those depressed time . |
| 10 | We want to swap our nice , two-bedroom bungalow near the Essex coast for somewhere nearer Herts or Sussex yet in three years there has n't been a decent inquiry . |
| 11 | " Within three years there were 500 literary clinics in operation without a ruble 's expense to the state " . |
| 12 | Not to exaggerate the cat 's breeding abilities , it must be recorded that from the age of eight until twelve years there is a gradual decline in the number of kittens produced in each litter , so the reproductive apparatus is beginning to show signs of slowing down at this stage , and only the strongest and healthiest of moggies can stay the full course . |
| 13 | Within five years there were over 4000 smallholders participating in the scheme , and their marketed output had increased by nearly three times over previous levels . |
| 14 | The first loan society opened for business in 1838 , and within five years there were 150 . |
| 15 | So within twenty years there has been an enormous change . |
| 16 | In Japan the first railway line between Yokohama and Tokyo ( 18 miles ) was opened in 1872 , and within thirty Years there were 3,000 miles of track . |
| 17 | Estate duty reliefs carried forward to CTT include freedom from tax where an interest in settled property comes to a end during the settlor 's life and the property then reverts to him ( unless , of course , the reverter is by reason of his purchase of the reversionary interest ) ; and an allowance analogous to the old Quick Succession Allowance where within four years there has been more than one chargeable transfer il which the value transferred has been determined by reference to the value of the same settled property in which an interest in possession subsists . |
| 18 | If the donor dies within seven years there will still be no inheritance tax payable provided the son uses the property for a qualifying purpose ( see IHTA 1984 , s113A ) . |
| 19 | The recorded history of the country goes back 5000 years to the first known pharaohs ; and though for 2000 years there had been waves of invaders bringing one foreign ruler after another , for most of the peasants ( the fellahin ) life continued much as it had for centuries , regulated as much by the Nile and the miracle of its annual flood , as by successive new masters . |
| 20 | Indeed , the implication of his resignation letter was that for five years there had been conflict at the very heart of the government that had precipitated the earlier resignations of Heseltine , Lawson and , in July 1990 , Nicholas Ridley , the Trade and industry Secretary ( the last after he had expressed intemperate views about Britain 's European partners that many observers believed the Prime Minister herself shared ) . |
| 21 | ‘ We are very grateful for the donations we receive from charitable organisations like BLISS , but in the last two to three years there has been an additional £800,000 investment in special baby care units from Mersey region . ’ |
| 22 | He used to export half his rice crop , but for four years there has been no export and so no incentive to grow more than he needs . |
| 23 | For two years there has been debate over the future of the club 's home ground at McMullen Road , Darlington . |
| 24 | At twelve years there was another 2/6d . |