Example sentences of "[vb pp] the [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given the 74 years of Communist dictatorship and the long period of Tsarist dictatorship before that , is it not essential to provide aid and assistance so that at long last Russia and the countries associated with the former Soviet Union can become stable democracies ? |
| 2 | Do you have a quarter of the right you would expect if you done the forty years . |
| 3 | A ceremony at Madrid 's only synagogue marked the 500 years since , on March 31 , 1492 , King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain gave Spanish Jews the choice of conversion to Christianity or expulsion under threat of death . |
| 4 | PATRICK RYAN , the Irish Catholic priest sought by Britain on terrorist charges , said yesterday he had spent the 14 years since dropping out of active priesthood raising money from foreign embassies for the victims of the conflict in Northern Ireland . |
| 5 | Deciding to become involved in politics , he first sought out Lord Plowden , one of the grandest figures of the Great and Good , who had spent the thirty years since the war as one of Whitehall 's most distinguished gofers . |
| 6 | For the Liberal Democrats , Nick Harvey said : ‘ The UK has wasted the six years since passing the Channel Tunnel Act . |
| 7 | Kim Il Sung 's most astonishing achievement is to have survived the 47 years since he was put in charge of the North by Stalin when Korea was divided in 1945 . |