Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | I worked in the coal mines for three years to obtain my colliery manager 's certificate . |
| 2 | His spare-time activities during these years resulted in various patents , including one from 1931 concerning the Baird TV system and one in 1933 for the variable density technique of optically recording sound on film . |
| 3 | Japanese banks will continue to write off and provide against masses of doubtful debts for several years to come . |
| 4 | The Regulations will apply to accounts for financial years ending on or after 16 November 1992 , and there are transitional provisions to enable companies to take early advantage of the new thresholds . |
| 5 | Cloth exports for 1374–75 can not be measured , as the custom on cloth for that year was farmed for all ports except London , and there are considerable gaps in the accounts for adjacent years . |
| 6 | I have been paying National Insurance and taxes for many years . |
| 7 | An IBC is exempt from licence fees , income , corporation and capital gains taxes for 20 years . |
| 8 | This has been the procedure followed by the Yugoslav statisticians for many years . |
| 9 | But they have been dead scared of the Russians for 40 years . |
| 10 | France has pursued such policies for many years and this rationalisation and reallocation of land — remembrement — is still seen as a major long-term aim . |
| 11 | This effectively strangled its activities for several years . |
| 12 | It is difficult to see what will happen then , but no trade unionist has been jailed for taking part in trade union activities for 20 years . ’ |
| 13 | over previous plans for these years . |
| 14 | Your plans for ten years or so ? |
| 15 | Mr Reuss , who had been in charge of the North American car operations for five years , will be replaced by vice-chairman John Smith , who transformed GM 's ailing European operations in the 1980s . |
| 16 | Feed the Minds has been supporting WACC projects for many years . |
| 17 | Feed the Minds has been supporting WACC projects for many years . |
| 18 | Thus the main motivating force behind the Judicature Acts was to rid the Court of Chancery of its ability to prolong cases for many years . |
| 19 | Glyn was a lawyer , a partner in Rushton and Clarke , a firm who had been the family solicitors for several years , since her teenage years when she and her mother had come here and stopped roaming and moving at last . |
| 20 | The Strass has been popular with British holiday-makers for many years , and is conveniently situated in Mayrhofen 's main street , next to the Penken cable car . |
| 21 | An employee must work a minimum of sixteen hours for two years continuously with the same employer to be eligible for payment . |
| 22 | It was not thickly populated or well defended , but it was much larger than the islands the English already held in the Caribbean , so it provided land for English emigrants for some years . |
| 23 | Although it probably sounds odd that I am suggesting negotiating a written agreement with your teenager , psychologists have been using business-style contracts to resolve family conflicts for some years now . |
| 24 | The court heard that Ironside had been banned from the roads for two years in May 1990 and for the same period in February 1991 . |
| 25 | The main living room was used for Quaker meetings for many years . |
| 26 | Clinton would slash $37.5bn from Bush 's defence budget proposals for fiscal years 1993–96 . |
| 27 | Harvey Pitcher , doing research on nineteenth century Arran writers and painters and especially on the wealthy Muir family who rented houses for many years on Arran , has given me this delightful little gem . |
| 28 | That would allow a tremendous movement of people from under-utilised accommodation to smaller accommodation and would allow many people who have been on the waiting list for council houses for many years to be moved into smaller accommodation . |
| 29 | Peter and Carol had lived in the same row of houses for 16 years . |
| 30 | the security contracts that have covered Wakefield , Drury and Norwich Houses for some years now show that this is an effective method of providing security to Stamford and Rennie House . ’ . |