Example sentences of "[art] [adj] years [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The intervening years must have rolled away uneventfully and only much nearer our time do records appear of the development of village life . |
| 2 | A reduction in the barrage of antismoking advice during the teenage years would thus be combined with an increase in health promotion aimed at a more responsive group . |
| 3 | Otherwise that person having worked for four different employers during the forty years will not retire on two-thirds of final salary , but will retire on two-thirds er only perhaps the last employer for the last ten years . |
| 4 | It is contained in the old aphorism ‘ the child is father to the man ’ , and expresses the belief that a child 's experiences in the early years will leave a mark on him for the rest of his life . |
| 5 | Call it a rites-of-passage novel , a coming-of-age novel or a coming-out novel , it is usually a writer 's way of exploring how the early years can irritate to life the otherwise dormant sensitivities that produce the itch to write fiction . |
| 6 | ( The main difference between the two studies is that the American forecasters assume a fairly high level of growth in total employment while the British researchers are more pessimistic , predicting that employment over the 10 years will fall by 3 per cent . ) |
| 7 | They requested that the advantages for the Gospel gained during the previous years should not be lost and that the King should support moves for unity amongst God 's people . |
| 8 | As the spend over the three years will be more than that — last year 's spend was £17 million and I expect this year 's to be £25 million , making a total of £42 million — I suppose that I could give my hon. Friend the assurance that he seeks , but even if our figures were so way out that I could be caught on that commitment , when I consider the matter next May — assuming that the burden still falls to me to do so — I would have to make the same calculation as I made this year . |
| 9 | This developing and deepening exploration of the world through a marriage of language and the senses is not all the primary years should provide . |
| 10 | I remain unshaken in my belief that the curriculum in the primary years must meet the intellectual , emotional , social and physical needs of the children who are undertaking it and that effective education has to be child-centred because it is with children that teachers work . |
| 11 | The Central Committee believes that the implementation of its programme for the five years can help create the conditions for real peace — reconciliation , harmony , well-being , mutual respect , a sense of community and inter-dependence . |
| 12 | Newspaper reports on 12th March that the Bank of Ireland is to shed 600 of its staff over the coming years could not come at a worse time for the economy . |
| 13 | If your goal is a college scholarship , the odds are very high that attending one for a few years will lead to a number of scholarship offers from top-notch college tennis programmes in the United States . |
| 14 | With luck , a few years will bring a greatest hits compilation . |
| 15 | There are those who suppose that ‘ giving the other side a turn ’ for a few years will invigorate democracy and somehow advance the cause of moderation . |
| 16 | A great deal is going on in those regions , and people in the south who have not been north of Watford Gap for a few years should go and see what is happening there . |
| 17 | The period of six and a half years should be divided into two sections . |
| 18 | The problems result from long-term exposure , so families who change homes every few years may not suffer because they are exposed to levels above the action level for only a short time . |
| 19 | This will be an annual task unless you 've invested in a cedar model when once every three years should suffice . |
| 20 | Party of baboons with typewriters working for a million years would n't come up with anything wise . ’ |
| 21 | An issue that the guillotine motion will not allow us to discuss does not involve improving the average standards , but the fact that those local authorities that already exceed the minimum standard and conduct inspections more frequently than once every four years will be required to lower their standards . |
| 22 | they would require replacing every seven years would they not ? |
| 23 | ‘ An hundred years should go to praise/ Thine Eyes , and on thy Forehead gaze . |