Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] years [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are no outstanding flashes in organic chemistry , things move step by step , and the way they 've moved over the past thirty or forty years is quite apparent if anybody looks round their home . |
| 2 | Another difficulty of the last 11 or 12 years is that we have always faced west , towards the United States of America . |
| 3 | What had been happening financially over the last five or six years is unclear but in 1932 the situation was regarded as ‘ serious ’ and it was to continue so ( as with other Clubs in the Depression ) until the late 1930's . |
| 4 | Advance corporation tax not recoverable against the mainstream corporation tax liability for the current or previous years is written off to the profit and loss account unless its future recovery can be foreseen . |
| 5 | In fact many institutions express this as a recommendation , albeit a strong one where the commitment is obligatory , and averaging over two or three years is often permitted to allow for varying circumstances . |
| 6 | A procedure which keeps alive a warning ( even for a major breach of discipline ) for more than two or three years is almost always unjust . |
| 7 | What it means for the homes is that they 're going to have to take a what we 've been doing over the last two or three years is gradually improving the staffing levels in our elderly people 's homes , because the dependency levels in those homes are getting very high . |
| 8 | As we have already seen , it can take several years for a product to come on stream , let alone break even in reported accounts ; seven or more years is possible in some industries ( see Tomkins et al. , 1978 ) . |
| 9 | These men I have examined around the world who live in vigorous health to 100 or more years are great walkers . |
| 10 | Only women who have never taken the pill and those who have taken it for eight or more years are followed up beyond the age of 45 . |
| 11 | Those who have been unemployed for three or more years are not asked about their previous employment , and are thereby excluded from the survey . |
| 12 | The web of diplomatic contacts which had developed in western and central Europe over the last 200 or more years was now being extended further east by the full incorporation in it for the first time of the great new emerging state of Russia : henceforth events in eastern Europe were to be far more significant in the calculations of statesmen in the west than ever in the past . |
| 13 | In general , children over the age of 5 or 6 years are mostly treated by enuresis clinics . |
| 14 | And where sentences of three or five years were once common , judges are now giving ten years or more . |
| 15 | A Sir Thomas Beecham Scholarship of £200 per annum for three or four years is also open to instrumental performers . |
| 16 | Survival at either three months or two years was not significantly related to age ( χ 2 for trend=0.000 , p=0.984 ; and 0.03 , p=0.863 respectively ) . |
| 17 | That anyone of Milner 's mental power and insight could envisage a course of events which ran contrary both to the logic and experience of the actual British Empire over a hundred and fifty years is a staggering fact . |
| 18 | A family which has run the same pub for two hundred and fifty years is holding a week of celebrations … |
| 19 | A water mill that has n't changed for one hundred and fifty years is up for sale as a unique country home . |
| 20 | Follow up at seven and 10 years was excluded from this analysis because of the small amount of data for the models . |
| 21 | The first is where the whole of the programme is provided by and taught at a major centre , as in the case of Bristol Polytechnic ; the second is where the first year is provided extra-murally at a number of associated centres , while the second year only is provided at the main centre , as the case of Portsmouth Polytechnic ; and the third is where both the first and second years are provided at the main and associate centres as at Plymouth Polytechnic and Cornwall Technical College , Camborne . |
| 22 | Most of my revision in my first and second years was done the night before and I managed to get through but a lot of friends who did the same did n't . |
| 23 | On Thursday , the first and second years were entertained by strange and magical tales from Mr. Parkinson , who also used exotic musical instruments from all over the world . |
| 24 | Amongst this convicted male population , those aged less than 30 years , and particularly those aged between 15 and 21 years are over-represented . |
| 25 | For drug responders , the incidence of sudden death at 1 and 5 years was 5 and 29% , respectively , and for non-responders 19 and 48% , respectively . |
| 26 | The first two years are therefore spent in acquiring a broad background of Chemistry , Physics and Mathematics the third and fourth years are devoted entirely to Chemical Physics . |
| 27 | The third and fourth years are devoted to equal amounts of honours work in Artificial Intelligence and the associated discipline . |
| 28 | Third and fourth years are full-time in Geography and include common core courses , supervised project work , and a choice of options from an extensive range of specialisms . |
| 29 | The third and fourth years are devoted to geology alone , with an increasing emphasis on independent project work . |
| 30 | The third and fourth years are normally devoted entirely to honours work in Mathematics . |