Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [num] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | It specialises in building oak framed houses using 500 year old methods . |
| 2 | The pattern seen among women suggests the possibility of such an effect , but the low number of cases occurring seven years after start of cimetidine use or longer ( only six ) and the absence of any effect in men speak against the interpretation of the association as being casual . |
| 3 | Local schools , who have been involved in a railway poster competition to design images reflecting 150 years of local rail travel , will receive their first class family rail travel prizes from InterCity and the WSR at the same time at Taunton . |
| 4 | ALI BOUREQUAT AND HIS TWO BROTHERS ENDURED 19 YEARS IN MOROCCAN PRISONS WITHOUT CHARGE OR TRIAL . |
| 5 | THE MACC LADS celebrate ten years of writing songs about farting and suchlike with two gigs at London 's Marquee on March 29 and 30 . |
| 6 | Apparently lost in the shuffle are the violin sonatas recorded 15 years ago by Radu Lupu with Szymon Goldberg , an astonishing violinist . |
| 7 | In order words the LTE was to balance its books taking one year with the next . |
| 8 | They allow their secretaries to hoard three years supply of sticky tape their personnel people to stock six years ' supply of appraisal forms ( when most managers would do better with blank sheets ) and their engineers to " buffer out " with an indefinite supply of obsolete parts . |
| 9 | And now the FA must decide whether they feel it is in everyone 's best interests if they throw Taylor overboard into Boston harbour , just like the Yanks did 200 years ago to another unwanted English export . |
| 10 | In a recent study colonoscopy was performed on 210 asymptomatic subjects aged 50–75 years with negative faecal occult bloods . |
| 11 | 108 ) , and Pleistoanax 's supporters waited twenty-six years to get him recalled in 420 , which they did by bribing the oracle in the best archaic tradition . |
| 12 | A simple clash of information will be found if books published ten years ago dealing with modern technology ( computers , etc. ) are compared with those published since 1980 . |
| 13 | Indeed , they are much less alike than any other group of people whose ages span 40 years , because we all become less alike as we grow older . |
| 14 | Each of 28 projects received 3 years worth of money . |
| 15 | Without research and development properly funded these companies will have no products to sell 10 years down the line . |
| 16 | The boy 's parents divorced 14 years ago , when he was two . |
| 17 | Nails has ten years to spare over me . |
| 18 | My major intervention in medical matters came three years after my Rhodesian episode . |
| 19 | It was with the volatile Ivanisevic that he had won the French Open doubles title two years ago . |
| 20 | The elimination of the final barriers came five years ahead of the schedule agreed in the Closer Economic Relations agreement signed in 1983 . |
| 21 | Their parents spent three years contemplating whether or not to go through with the separation , which was at first thought impossible because of the degree to which the girls were joined . |
| 22 | Repayments are in ten instalments beginning six years after the date of borrowing and completed at the end of the tenth year after borrowing . |
| 23 | For example , borrowings under the compensatory finance facility have to be repaid in quarterly instalments beginning three years and ending not later than five years after the date of the borrowings , whereas the enlarged access repayments are required twice a year beginning three and a half years and ending not later than seven years after the date of the borrowings . |
| 24 | A total of 1272 men from the general population and 2099 retired coal miners aged 50–75 years took part in the study . |
| 25 | A group of 2037 retired coal miners aged 50–75 years was identified from the records of the North Nottinghamshire Miners ' Pension Fund ( with the cooperation of the Pension Fund Board and the Union of Democratic Mineworkers ) . |
| 26 | Their songs celebrate their ancient culture which dominated Bolivia before the Spanish conquistadores invaded 500 years ago . |
| 27 | It was just like the Rovers Return 20 years ago , but with an ageing Bet Lynch behind the bar . |
| 28 | Criss-crossing Europe and switching between time periods spanning 500 years , this new production by Red Shift is an action-packed thriller which follows three reluctant detectives — a clerk to Henry VIII , a Jacobean architect and a modern interior designer . |
| 29 | He was not as successful with melons because even ‘ Miller 's very fine old seed produced abominable fruit , and after trials covering five years he wrote to Chelsea for guidance . |
| 30 | Bewick Swans first overwintered at the Wildfowl and Wetlands trust 45 years ago , and nowadays around three hundred return every year . |