Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] four years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seven cases in the sample ( 14 per cent ) had gone on for four years or longer . |
| 2 | One late summer morning when Celia was getting on for four years old , Harriet drove back to Four Winds after one of her solo shopping-trips and was surprised to find Liza sitting outside with a young woman of about her own age . |
| 3 | McGoldrick signed on for four years after talks with Highbury boss George Graham and said : ‘ The boss has outlined his plans , but he has n't guaranteed me a first-team place . ’ |
| 4 | McGoldrick signed on for four years after talks with Highbury boss George Graham and said : ‘ I 'm delighted it 's all gone through so smoothly . ’ |
| 5 | The Crystal Palace star signed on for four years after talks with Highbury boss George Graham and admitted : ‘ The manager has outlined his plans , but he has n't guaranteed me a first-team place . ’ |
| 6 | He succeeds Alberta 's Barry Giffen who stepped down after four years at the annual general meeting held in Victoria on the weekend of the national championships in early November . |
| 7 | The environmental pressure group Greenpeace decided to highlight a particular nuclear power station as part of its ambitious post-Chernobyl campaign to have all nuclear installations shut down within four years . |
| 8 | Unsecured creditors should agree to accept a down payment of around 35p in the pound for money due to them , and to take the balance in redeemable convertible preference shares in Prior Harwin , to be paid off in four years ' time . |
| 9 | The eight million square feet in the World Financial Centre went up in four years and defied all predictions . |
| 10 | From November , 1914 , Ruhleben ( racecourse stables outside Berlin ) housed for up to four years about 4000 Britons , who ranged from several honeymoon couples just arrived in Germany for their August holidays to dons and students on walking or reading parties , musicians and sportsmen snatched from festivals , and even a journalist with an ear supposedly close to the ground , Israel Cohen , a German correspondent for the London press who had cheerfully left on July 29 for his vacation near Dresden . |
| 11 | Its year-only contracts look certain to cut the throats of mobile phone dealers — who need to tie in new subscribers for up to four years to make the arrangement pay — but should , Ford believes , give it a £200 million business by 1995 . |
| 12 | In addition , district courts were given the power to imprison these men for up to four years . |
| 13 | ACTOR Gerard Depardieu 's son faces up to four years in jail if found guilty of drug pushing . |
| 14 | Support can be offered for up to four years after school . |
| 15 | A Wellcome spokesman said the Anglo-French Concorde trials show ‘ an encouragingly low incidence of adverse reactions associated with one gramme of Zidovudine daily for up to four years ’ . |
| 16 | Repayments can be delayed for up to four years until the project yields a return , but thereafter they are normally due in six-monthly instalments . |
| 17 | To Professor Radzinowicz and Barbara Wootton , both strong characters unaccustomed to taking no for an answer , any thorough re-examination of the concepts and purposes underlying the punishment and treatment of offenders in the light of modern knowledge of crime and its causes was worthless without a programme of research , including fieldwork by qualified staff , taking anything up to four years to complete . |
| 18 | There are reductions up to four years , but again it would depend on how much your size of your estate is at the end of the day , when you do finally go as well . |
| 19 | the training contract can also be undertaken part time over up to four years . |
| 20 | One should attempt to avoid the situation where your own surgeon is instructed to prepare an initial Report some 12–24 months after the accident or as has been seen in some cases , up to four years after an accident . |
| 21 | In addition to the time lag while the act was being understood , it can take up to four years for an insolvency practitioner to lodge a report and then for a disqualification order to be made . |
| 22 | In fact , there has been talk of it taking up to four years to give effect to this , during which time who knows how many young people will die , while the Home Office and the Home Secretary drag their feet ? |
| 23 | Legislative authority is vested in a popularly elected bicameral Diet which is composed of a 512-member House of Representatives ( or Lower House , elected for up to four years ) and a House of Councillors ( or Upper House , whose 252 members are elected for six years , with half being due for re-election every three years ) . |
| 24 | The final communiqué exempted Angola from implementation of the tariff reduction programme for up to three years , and from use of the clearing house for up to four years . |
| 25 | Legislative authority is vested in the unicameral 250-member Assembly of the Republic , elected by universal adult suffrage for up to four years under a system of proportional representation . |
| 26 | Legislative authority is vested in a unicameral National Parliament , the 38 members of which are popularly elected for up to four years . |
| 27 | Legislative authority is vested in a unicameral 12-member Parliament which is popularly elected for up to four years . |
| 28 | Legislative power is vested in a unicameral House of Assembly ( Maneaba ) , comprising 39 members popularly elected for up to four years and one appointed representative of the Banaban community . |
| 29 | Legislative authority is vested in the unicameral 250-member Assembly of the Republic , elected by universal suffrage for up to four years under a system of proportional representation . |
| 30 | In Fez , where 15 people had been hospitalized after similar clashes in October , a court on Nov. 8 pronounced sentences of up to four years on 30 students ( 16 Islamic fundamentalists and 14 described as Marxist-Leninists ) . |