Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] years [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That I who have held first place for eight years should be asked to take a secondary position . ’ |
| 2 | The change of status , too , from ‘ wife , to ‘ widow ’ is felt very keenly by most women as a loss of considerable significance , which indeed it is ; for without a partner , a woman who has been married for some years may , unless she already has well developed interests outside her home , find that her social life is suddenly transformed in a very disturbing way . |
| 3 | After his election to a five-year term , he said : ‘ Albania has been a one-man country for 70 years , and for some years should be a parliamentary country . |
| 4 | We will guarantee the return of your capital in full after 5 years should the level of the FT-SE 100 actually fall . |
| 5 | With a charge of 2 per cent , the net return would be 5 per cent a year and the value after ten years would be £1,629 . |
| 6 | There have been some very diverse schemes , including a wine company that after five years would offer investors a taste of the booty . |
| 7 | The minimum maturity value after five years will be 100% of your premium plus bonus allocations . |
| 8 | The proportion of the current land supply undeveloped after five years will contribute to the next five year period . |
| 9 | There is a guarantee the return after five years will be at least the amount of the original investment . |
| 10 | Some blockhouses were small and short-lived , but others proved to have been placed advantageously and after several years would be reconstructed on a larger scale to form a frontier town . |
| 11 | Corresponding amounts for preceding years should be restated where applicable . |
| 12 | Maybe , an in terrorem provision to the effect that : ( a ) the ratio for year one should be [ as specified ] ; ( b ) the ratio for future years shall be determined annually by the partners ; and ( c ) pending agreement by the partners , no drawings at all are permitted , would provide the necessary pressure for all partners to approach the matter constructively , but it would be a bold firm which chose such a course . |
| 13 | The settlement is for next year only and the three-year planning system is discontinued ; from now on figures for future years will only be indicative . |
| 14 | ‘ Partners who have never seen each other for 10 years may be forced into a situation that could cause stress and rekindle bitter feelings . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ What 's been accepted for 2,000 years should not be changed now . ’ |
| 16 | It could be argued that since children from about the age of eight years can create their own mental images and since , according to Shirley Hughes ( 1983 , unpaged ) ‘ The best pictures any child sees are in its own head ’ , there is little need for pictures in books for older children . |
| 17 | Although there is evidence that those who choose to learn sign language after the age of 30 years will not reach the level of understanding of those who begin earlier ; and although there is a declining performance as the age of sign language learning increases , it does not mean that all those over the age of 30 years can not learn BSL , nor that they will be unable to communicate . |
| 18 | Although there is evidence that those who choose to learn sign language after the age of 30 years will not reach the level of understanding of those who begin earlier ; and although there is a declining performance as the age of sign language learning increases , it does not mean that all those over the age of 30 years can not learn BSL , nor that they will be unable to communicate . |
| 19 | It 's urgent , inspirational talk , founded on the belief that the problems of 300 years must be tackled now , before the new Europe locks bad old constitutional bargains into place . |
| 20 | So an interval of 10 years will have gone by without his situation being looked at by the local review committee or the parole board . |
| 21 | There were no guarantees that the wealthy , stable , democratic regime of later years would emerge . |
| 22 | The aloneness of later years can be heightened by other factors , some of them geographical . |
| 23 | Historians have disagreed concerning how far the legislative record of the Radical-led but CEDA-manipulated administrations of these years should be regarded as deliberately undoing the work of 1931–3 in the religious , educational , regional , labour and agrarian spheres . |
| 24 | Full-time students not meeting the degree requirements at the end of three years may be eligible to return to take additional modules within the maximum period of five years from entry to Stage II . |
| 25 | The Court had come to the conclusion , making allowance for the fact that both men had had to face the prospect of punishment twice , that sentences of three years should be substituted for the sentences imposed . |
| 26 | Evidence in this area has led to the conclusion that institutions are not capable of providing adequate parenting for the very young child and to the statement by the Royal College of Psychiatrists ( 1983 ) to the Standing Committee on Children in Care in Britain that no child under the age of three years should ever be placed in a residential nursery . |
| 27 | Renewals for further periods of three years will not be unreasonably refused where the Data has been incorporated into composite works which the Licensee wishes to maintain . ’ |
| 28 | A minimum term of three years will be offered . |
| 29 | The following fall into this category : ( i ) step-parents ; ( ii ) anyone with whom the child has lived for a period of three years within the last five ; the relevant period of three years need not be continuous but must not have ended more than three months before the application is made ; ( iii ) where the child is in care , anyone who has the consent of the local authority ; ( iv ) where the child is not in care , anyone who has the consent of each person with parental responsibility for the child . |
| 30 | And , because interest is paid free of basic rate income tax every pound in your account at the end of 5 years will be yours . |