Example sentences of "[adv] [num] year [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recently converted to Christianity , bearer of the burden of funeral arrangements , father of nine , Ranteallo was the recipient of the rawest deal of his perhaps 800 year lineage . |
| 2 | The capacity and speed of optoelectronics make it an ideal means for simplifying switching and routing with optical networking a possibility for perhaps 10 years time — a prospect that researchers from University College are currently co-researching with British Telecommunications Plc in Harlow . |
| 3 | Putting me and Billy together ten years back would probably never have occurred to them . |
| 4 | It 's only one year difference is it ? |
| 5 | The sole surviving Metrovic D5705 , withdrawn after just 10 years service on BR , was stabled between former ECML Deltics D9016 and D9000 . |
| 6 | why this week … well in exactly three years time the Olympic flame will be lit in Atlanta for the next games … and one of the new sports will be laser sailing … and all the boats are being built by the company in Banbury |
| 7 | As the eager spectators applauded , and their cheers echoed around the field at Louis Paulhan 's success , how could anyone imagine that in just nine years time the Atlantic Ocean would be conquered by a young man in the crowd . |
| 8 | By this time the guitar had made its popular impact , and in just five years time it would be considered virtually the instrument of musical expression . |
| 9 | With no previous running experience , Pamela has spent just under two years training and preparing for the race . |
| 10 | Although some of them have clocked up nearly forty years service , they 'll get no redundancy pay from the company , and their pensions have disappeared . |
| 11 | AFTER nearly ten years work a £400m Indian power station , built by NEI Power Projects of Newcastle , will be handed over to the country 's power authorities tomorrow . |
| 12 | I have been thinking about my nearly twenty years friendship with him and especially what it was that he gave me in terms of belief and understanding of the job . |
| 13 | We have nearly 200 years experience of selling in the area . |
| 14 | Backed by nearly 200 years experience and boatbuilding tradition , a Moody is above all a boat you know you can trust . |
| 15 | Also , it will be very interesting to examine the Davis Cup record of those ‘ flavour of the month ’ players such as Courier , Sampras etc in about 10 years time . |
| 16 | The Synod has been here about three years running has n't it . |
| 17 | And that was the Logagun models For about ten years feature models were quite popular in perception . |
| 18 | I think they should get rid of the stigma in condoms , cos what frightens me is that in about ten years time my daughter will come and maybe ask if she can go on the pill and at least I can tell her no , use a condom there 's less chance of sexually transmitted diseases , but it 's my sons they wo n't come and ask . |
| 19 | At er well this week you sort of look back and say yeah but erm in about ten years time if you come and ask me the same question I would be able be in a better position to give you an answer . |
| 20 | After about four years war . |
| 21 | Push into the ground until it 's stable , plant your climbers , and in about two years time , you 'll have a perfect cottage garden arch , needing no maintenance . . |
| 22 | The second volume , containing a detailed textual commentary , will appear in about two years time . |
| 23 | The scallops would be put on to the seabed after about two years growth in special nets , and grown on for a further two years before harvesting . |
| 24 | With this in mind , when considering situations where there are questions about very long term service lives , I suggest that current construction methods should not make it too difficult to incorporate any presently unthought of developments that might materialise in the future — be this in 20 or even 100 years time ! |
| 25 | Homes built in 10 , 20 or even 100 years time are likely to have more similarities than differences to the houses of today , with technological advances incorporated unobtrusively into the design . |
| 26 | Most placements of agency secretarial/office staff are for a period as short as two weeks or less , albeit subject to extension , but the assignments advertised for computer staff are of three months , or more often six months and sometimes one year or even two year duration , again subject to extension . |
| 27 | Yes erm because I doubt it , erm at the moment with the fund that we 're talking about the erm the close scheme , because most of these people in B T were originally erm in the Post Office , and of course when the they split erm then the erm Post Office workers went over to B T , they get a B T pension but in actual fact they paid into a pension scheme erm for many of them for forty years because they come into that age group , where so many people , you took a job when you were twenty o or or sixteen and you stayed with it for life , you did n't chop and change like people do these days and the majority of our members erm we can go down and I would say the vast majority of our members have actually worked for the Post Office or starting with the Post Office and then B T or staying with the Post Office for forty years , there 's no end of them they 've got in there forty years service . |
| 28 | Between all four of them they have almost 100 years service . |
| 29 | The Law Societies ' of England and Wales , Scotland and Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland have funded a team of researchers led by lecturer Dr Julian Lonbay , to draw up a report on the professional qualifications and training of lawyers , in order to help them determine how to implement the EEC Directive on a general system for the recognition of higher education diplomas awarded on completion of professional education and training of at least three years duration , which comes into force on 4 January 1991 . |
| 30 | ( Crying in justified woundedness ) Oh I can just see you lyin' there five year aul' in yer bed recess with your sixteen brothers and sisters eating snotters and planning to trap our Deirdre , tie her down by fair means or foul . |