Example sentences of "[vb pp] up [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alan Heath science teacher says the girls learn more about life than anything else they 've grown up three years in one day purring along behind the girls are one of 20 teams from Japan … this one is the cat 's whiskers … |
| 2 | In a will drawn up two years earlier he bequeathed his estate in Bermondsey to his wife Mary , and their two sons Robert and John . |
| 3 | Then the truth pours out : FM transmission is based on a scheme drawn up 40 years ago . |
| 4 | Spokesman Simon Boxer said : ‘ It was dreamed up 20 years ago when scientists believed nuclear power would save the world and feared we would soon run out of uranium . |
| 5 | The project has decimated the Amazon forest and led to the deaths of 1,000 Indians since their habitat was opened up 10 years ago . |
| 6 | I had thought at the time , wrote Goldberg , turning the page , wiping his brow , taking a sip of orange juice from the glass on the desk beside him , dreaming for a moment of the cigarettes he had given up two years earlier , I had thought , he wrote , that an edited version of the text , with only those comments directly concerned with the Big Glass included , would serve you best . |
| 7 | Denplan Care was set up five years ago by two dentists and now has 200,000 patients and 3,000 dentists . |
| 8 | The DOCE was set up five years ago to provide up-to-date information for both teachers and pupils in secondary education , and originally sent data out on floppy . |
| 9 | It was set up five years ago as a new shop to combine the Art Bookshop and the Poster Gallery , which prior to that had been part of the Paperback Bookshop . |
| 10 | One of the largest is Denplan , which was set up four years ago by an ex-dentist . |
| 11 | The department was set up four years ago when responsibility for NMS property passed to the Museums ' Trustees . |
| 12 | Already , 156 hospitals have left the NHS since trusts were set up two years ago . |
| 13 | A report had originally been produced and submitted to QC 's Committee when it was first set up two years ago . |
| 14 | Hugh you 've been minister of the parish of Inverleith here in Edinburgh for the past seventeen years , and I understand you were one of the very first vice convenors of the Board when it was set up eight years ago having already served the church on the former Interchurch Relations Committee . |
| 15 | The team was only set up 3 years ago when the rink was built and is now ranked 13th in the country . |
| 16 | When the Video Library was set up ten years ago by the non-profit-making association , Jeunesse et Arts Plastiques , I suggested to Jean Antoine that he should keep a U-matic video copy . |
| 17 | Runswick Bay rescue boat committee , which was set up ten years ago after the village lost its lifeboat , has had ten call-outs in the past year . |
| 18 | Run by farm owner Tim Butler , the business park was set up three years ago and there are currently 11 tenants . |
| 19 | It was because of these attacks that a Public Enquiry into the issue of political vetting was set up three years ago . |
| 20 | Our control should be extended to the country and a tripartite commission exists to reform the Labour Code , but it was set up three years ago , and so far there have n't been any results . |
| 21 | The undercover operation , code-named Operation Courier , was set up three years ago by the DEA in Cyprus to infiltrate Lebanese heroin groups in the Middle East and their connections in Detroit . |
| 22 | Jointly funded by the IFI and the DoE , it has come about as a result of the efforts of the Garrison and Melvin Community Development Association which was set up three years ago as a ‘ self help ’ group for the region . |
| 23 | In France the direction des consulats et des affaires commerciales which had been set up some years earlier was reorganised in 1882 . |
| 24 | One of several , it was set up 15 years ago and , using immunotherapy , has an 81 per cent success rate with women who 've had multiple miscarriages . |
| 25 | However , some of these children were subsequently adopted , and when followed up some years later showed a remarkable recovery with an average IQ of 85 . |
| 26 | There were six other octogenarians also in attendance and between them they had notched up 170 years service with P&O companies . |
| 27 | His son , Bill , works in the glost ovens department at Barlaston and has notched up 48 years with the company . |
| 28 | Our drivers and recently notched up 25 years service apiece . |
| 29 | The law of vortical movement in primordial matter is one of the oldest conceptions of Greek-philosophers , whose great minds were all nourished by the arcane Vedic wisdom and taken up 2000 years later by Copernicus , Galileo , Descartes and Swedenborg . |
| 30 | In Witney we 've got a big industrial estate and on the top of a forty foot pole there is a siren that was put up four years ago . |