Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [num] year " 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 | Because the concern here is with general trends and not annual variations , the rates are calculated for five year blocks . |
| 20 | The conceptual basis for LIFESPAN was developed during 10 years of long lifetime software production and issue . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Norton et al found that 25%-35% of women had delayed for five years or more before seeking medical advice . |
| 23 | One site with which the author was involved was delayed for two years , with constant revision to the proposed design . |
| 24 | On the job : Long serving worker Lavinia Vale has won an unfair dismissal case against Warrington firm Stubs Welding Limited after 28 years service . |
| 25 | The Avalon bathroom was developed after three years ' extensive research into the difficulties associated with ageing . |
| 26 | Knowles , who was sacked after 14 years with BR , was fined £150 plus £30 costs after admitting being drunk at work . |
| 27 | You are sacked after 20 years ' service with a week 's notice . |
| 28 | The trial was halted after one year instead of the planned three after 20 per cent of patients taking only zidovudine died compared with only 10 per cent of those taking a ‘ cocktail ’ of zidovudine and acyclovir . |
| 29 | An employee who is dismissed after two years ' service has three months in which to complain to an industrial tribunal . |
| 30 | 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 . |