Example sentences of "[vb pp] a [num] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | The owner of an eighteen foot fibre glass shark has won a six year battle to keep it on the roof of his terraced home . |
| 2 | Cincinnati , Ohio-based Cincom Systems Inc has won a five year , $10m contract to supply its local area network database software , Supra Server , to the US Defense Information Systems Agency and the Defense Commercial Communications Offices . |
| 3 | Cincinnati-based Cincom Systems Inc has won a five year , $10m contract to supply its LAN database , Supra Server , to the US Defense Information Systems Agency ( DISA ) and the Defense Commercial Communications Offices . |
| 4 | The parents of a girl who was severely handicapped after being starved of oxygen at birth have won a five year battle for compensation . |
| 5 | But the British Government , unconvinced the fastest bikes are more dangerous , has won a five year exemption and an EC Commission promise to produce road safety evidence before Britain will come into line . |
| 6 | The Department of Accountancy and Finance , in conjunction with the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Scotland , has recently won a 3 year British Council Know-How funded project based in St Petersburg , aimed at retraining accounting practitioners and teachers in accounting methods in a market-led economy . |
| 7 | The Duttons had come a hundred years before to the long straggling village of Sherborne in the archaically beautiful Borne Valley , where Thomas Dutton had built the original house of Sherborne Park in 1551 . |
| 8 | Whether or not the law of negligence was correctly applied a hundred years ago in Walker v. Great Northern Railway Co. of Ireland , 28 L.R.Ir. 69 , it has since then been evolving . |
| 9 | They might well have done a thousand years ago , but the Imperial Age converted that horizontal relationship into a vertical one so that Sri Lankan schools still teach vertical history ‘ Ceylon Under British Rule ’ and Senegal continues its cultural obsession with France . |
| 10 | She achieved the crest of the road and saw it spill over , and the village in the bottom of the valley , silent as if drowned a hundred years beneath a lake . |
| 11 | I 'd , I 'd I 'd got a four year old toddler and a and a eighteen month old crawler when , when I was your age . |
| 12 | Pound can talk all he likes about the cultural lag in America … but he 's got a 200 year political lag in himself . |
| 13 | And er er sort of phone call one afternoon at half past four from the deputy , oh by the way , in fact if we had n't been talking to any Brummies on a we would 've been interviewing people and telling them that they 'd got a three year and these are all points that are gon na be brought up next week , but I do n't see there is any possibility of them doing an about turn because they 've gone public on it . |
| 14 | got a seven year old child who I keep in contact with , I 've got regular photographs coming , I keep into contact with er the now the mother and we all get on really well ! |
| 15 | Well he 'd got a seven year old girl copying him had n't he ? |
| 16 | Coming up in a few minutes , the artist who 's had a six year love affair with the Malvern Hills . |
| 17 | I feel very proud that Dounreay has had a two year advantage in setting up this system . ’ |
| 18 | JON SMITH , head of First Artist Corporation , has been offered a five year contract by the FA to help organise the new England players ’ pool . |
| 19 | Former weaver Reay McKew ( right ) has successfully completed a two year apprenticeship to become a qualified ‘ Overlooker . ’ |
| 20 | Er , applications are accepted from all officers who have completed a two year period of probation and no applications are considered whilst an officer is in his probation . |
| 21 | They were each given a two year conditional discharge and ordered to pay £35 costs . |
| 22 | The thief was caught and given a two year prison sentence but the stolen property was not recovered . |
| 23 | Desmond McAteer was given a two year suspended prison sentence at the city 's Crown Court when he admitted attacking his rival involved in the love triangle with his wife . |
| 24 | Yesterday she was given a two year probation and ordered to pay £1,000 compensation , after admitting three specimen charges amounting to £1,252 and asking for 27 similar offences to be taken into account . |
| 25 | The man was given a 2 year probation order on condition he attends a clinic . |
| 26 | ‘ He was given a twenty-five year sentence , eighteen years ago . |
| 27 | Airbus has been given a three year guarantee on that contract . |
| 28 | But of course if salaries go up evenly throughout a forty year lifespan and the Chairman is given a forty year lifespan which is quite or pension lifespan which is quite a suitable one , if salaries go up and someone leaves their company every ten years , then the first three departures are obviously going to be at much lower salary levels and it 's not going to be satisfactory the first three departures are just index linked to inflation , there is the problem of how does one index link them towards the final salary . |
| 29 | It should be noted that for a person obliged to retire from business because of failing health , the maximum relief can be obtained before the age of 60 ( given a ten year period as director ) . |
| 30 | They urged friends to join them and so the Society of St Peter Apostle was born a hundred years ago in France . |