Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The English way has not altered for 30 years , ’ he says . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't know where , why or how he got that idea , ’ said 77-year-old Mr Hickman , recently honoured for 60 years of preaching . |
| 3 | I mean , Cover Master , it 's very simple , say you want , yeah , it 's a hundred thousand arranged for twenty years , and then later on . |
| 4 | The department ‘ s syllabus has not been revised for five years and perhaps is ready for a revision . |
| 5 | In some respects they use new language and embody in a formal text rules that have not been specified in that way before ; this has indeed been the way the laws of war have developed for 150 years . |
| 6 | Geraldine , who worked as accounts clerk at Yarmouth Marine Base left to accompany her RAF husband to Cyprus where he has been posted for three years . |
| 7 | She had been paralysed for thirty years . |
| 8 | In addition , one very broadly-based general SVQ is being introduced at level I. We are also introducing two preliminary awards at a more basic level than level I. All these awards have been accredited for two years in the first instance . |
| 9 | ‘ Langstrath in Borrowdale is a particular favourite and I have painted that one lots of times , ’ he says Mr Healey , aged 57 , who lives in Kirkleatham Avenue , Redcar , left his job and enrolled on a teaching degree course at Teesside College of Education , to combine his love of painting with his desire to share the skill When he qualified in 1974 , he started teaching art at St. Thomas ' School , Middlesbrough , before moving to St. Peter 's Roman Catholic School , South Bank , where he has taught for 13 years . |
| 10 | Five Highers , Jordanhill , married in the University Chapel to an awful nice electrical engineer who would n't say boo , taught for two years till she got her parchment before starting a family . |
| 11 | A screening programme for high blood pressure and related risks , begun in 1968 and sustained for 21 years in a defined community , gave us an opportunity to study long term management of high blood pressure in young adults in a social context , with data collected prospectively on originally unsuspected associations . |
| 12 | It is counter-productive to expect a 50-year-old patient who is 160 per cent ideal bodyweight to join the ranks of the non-obese ; even if heroic efforts achieve this miraculous transformation , it is very unlikely it could be sustained for 20 years . |
| 13 | An odd proposal , but no odder than the belief sustained for 40 years that the Kuomintang would return to Beijing to rule all of China . |
| 14 | It was flown for six years by the Canadians before it was sold as surplus in late 1947 by the War Assets Corporation . |
| 15 | He 'd kept it hidden for fifty years . |
| 16 | The equipment — in perfect condition after lying hidden for 50 years — will chronicle a time when each factory had its own firefighting force specially trained to deal with the Luftwaffe 's terrifying weaponry . |
| 17 | So this is not intended for five years old , it actually refers to new vehicles . |
| 18 | An 18 year old girl treated for five years with a lazative containing danthrone died from a leiomyosarcoma of the small intestine . |
| 19 | The conceptual basis for LIFESPAN was developed during 10 years of long lifetime software production and issue . |
| 20 | He concludes that although developed during 25 years , progress has been very rapid , but in many fields there is still considerable scope for further empirical work . |
| 21 | Norton et al found that 25%-35% of women had delayed for five years or more before seeking medical advice . |
| 22 | One site with which the author was involved was delayed for two years , with constant revision to the proposed design . |
| 23 | On the job : Long serving worker Lavinia Vale has won an unfair dismissal case against Warrington firm Stubs Welding Limited after 28 years service . |
| 24 | The Avalon bathroom was developed after three years ' extensive research into the difficulties associated with ageing . |
| 25 | Knowles , who was sacked after 14 years with BR , was fined £150 plus £30 costs after admitting being drunk at work . |
| 26 | You are sacked after 20 years ' service with a week 's notice . |
| 27 | An employee who is dismissed after two years ' service has three months in which to complain to an industrial tribunal . |
| 28 | Seventy-two per cent of those who had previously worked were currently unemployed as a direct result of their heroin use : 17 were dismissed for continual lateness and/or absenteeism ; two were dismissed for theft from work to finance their habit ; two lost their jobs when they were imprisoned for burglary or possession of heroin ; one was dismissed after two years of illness related to his drug use ; and one went bankrupt trying to support his habit . |
| 29 | Popular at home ( the Duke of Edinburgh recently bought one ) , for foreigners they offer cheap chic : a cab dismissed after ten years ' service sells for around £1,500 ( $1,250 ) . |
| 30 | Tainted by the worst recession in 60 years , a record 1.05 million people out of work and a perception that Labor was fatigued after ten years in office , few had expected Mr Keating to scrape in . |