Example sentences of "[adj] [num] years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the following three years she enjoyed a period of heady social success . |
| 2 | In the following ten years it rose to 80,000 . |
| 3 | Entering Forest School , Walthamstow , Essex , in October 1895 , in the following five years he received prizes for mathematics , chemistry , and form work . |
| 4 | The issue was never raised again in the remaining five years I stayed at the Department of Health . |
| 5 | In the following twenty years he was responsible for the design and building of many new types of main-line and suburban passenger and freight locomotives of large dimensions , which gave excellent service and whose elegance and symmetry of outline were greatly admired . |
| 6 | Over the following four years he cultivated the nomadic way of life which , with the exception of the war years , was to be his until he died : he drifted restlessly in southern Europe and North Africa — and when in London was seen at the theatre , the Ballets Russes , the Café Royal , and at the bohemian restaurant , La Tour Eiffel . |
| 7 | He rang me the next day , was very enthusiastic , but apologised that for the following two years he was only doing German opera — but that he would remember me ! |
| 8 | Never in the entire two years she 'd known him had he inspired in her such a hopeless rage of jealousy as she 'd experienced when Guido had looked at that girl . |
| 9 | For the previous three years he had been busy transcribing the forgotten and unpublished portions of the Shah Jehan Nama , the court chronicle of Shah Jehan . |
| 10 | At the end of C.A. 1991 it was recorded that over the previous 18 years we had raised over £210,000 for the cause . |
| 11 | When the BMJ , in its special commemorative number for the Queen 's Diamond Jubilee in 1897 , reviewed the development of the profession over the previous sixty years it was this aspect that it chose to trumpet . |
| 12 | A review of the Board 's work in November 197 1 indicated that in the previous five years it had approved six courses in librarianship and two in information science at a total of six colleges . |
| 13 | For the previous five years I 'd worked solely as a sports photographer , and had really enjoyed it , but my work on the Hoggar Marathon was different , because I was just as interested in the scenery that surrounded me as I was in the race itself . |
| 14 | Over the previous twenty years we had become preoccupied with structural arguments about regions and areas when we should have been concerned about how the service was run . |
| 15 | Yet the point which he rightly argued was that for the previous thirty years he had personally controlled the maintenance of the ditches and hedges of this parish , so why should he consider newfangled ideas about nature conservation being built into any proposed scheme now ? |
| 16 | I 've been down here for bloody nine years I 've missed it a bit |
| 17 | Over the past eight years it has halved in size ( from 6500 staff in 30 institutes ) and simultaneously it has changed its entire research strategy . |
| 18 | Over the past 2 years it has been subject to extensive repairs and its site to archaeological investigation . |
| 19 | If we look at the development of computers over the past 30 years we see accelerated change of a phenomenal nature . |
| 20 | But now the solar influence is beginning to turn around to contribute a further warming influence up to the year 2010 , boosting the greenhouse effect where for the past 30 years it has been counterbalancing it . |
| 21 | As breeder and exhibitor of budgerigars for the past 12 years he finds the joke wearing thin , but it has n't dampened his enthusiasm for his hobby . |
| 22 | For the past 26 years he has worked in the offices at the Courtaulds Chemicals power station on the Spondon site . |
| 23 | For the past six years they 've spent time perfecting the revolutionary 3.6 litre , 32 valve , V8 engine . |
| 24 | I 'm 63 and for the past six years I have been taking two tablets each day for myxoedema of the thyroid . |
| 25 | In the past six years he has represented himself before 34 High Court judges , 25 Masters , 14 Registrars , four stipendary magistrates , two Justices of the Peace , and four Scottish sheriffs Yesterday was his 239th court appearance . |
| 26 | Over the past 10 years we have already come from a situation where road runners were getting virtually nothing from the sport , to a far more respected and well-provided role . ’ |
| 27 | For the past 10 years we 've been working on synthesising the chemical ; now we 're trying to see if the European Yew will provide the starter material for producing anti-cancer activity . |
| 28 | He said : ‘ Over the past 10 years we have been striving hard to maintain the numbers of part-time firefighters which are needed for this vital community service . ’ |
| 29 | For the past 100 years it has ejected more than 1,000 tonnes of chlorine into the atmosphere every day . |
| 30 | For the past 7 years he 's attended Dean Hall Special School near Cinderford . |