Example sentences of "[det] [adj] years [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We spent a wonderful week together and have agreed we wo n't leave it another eight years before we meet again . |
| 2 | Mozart , then between 14 and 17 , was still very much under his father 's thumb and it was to be another eight years before he broke free from Salzburg , settled in Vienna and married Constanze Weber . |
| 3 | It is , however , another eleven years before she is able to ’ open her box ’ and remember that her father abused her . |
| 4 | Give it another fifty years or so , and one should then be able to understand much more the system . |
| 5 | It is interesting to note that bullhead rail is still in evidence some forty years after the infant British Railways adopted flat-bottom rail as standard . |
| 6 | In 1948 a certain M. ( Micky ) K. Watson was elected on to the committee , beginning a special relationship with the Club that was to last some 30 years and prove instrumental in its recovery , simultaneously adding significantly to the quality of both the Club 's social and golfing amenities . |
| 7 | He had been educated in Britain and in 1875 , as an eighteen-year-old student , had brought the first football to Madeira — some thirteen years before it was ever played on the Portuguese mainland . |
| 8 | All this six years after the hospital was opened at a cost to the taxpayer of £27m ( the region 's ‘ flagship ’ ) . |
| 9 | According to Ata'i , Baghdad became a mevleviyet only in 947/1540–1 , some six years after the Ottomans had taken it : a marginal note adds that for those six years it had been administered by kasabat kadis . |
| 10 | In any case , Rutter 's ridicule seems a grotesquely inappropriate response to our constructive and it now seems , prescient , suggestion made some six years before he first presented his own distinguished views on the subject of lead pollution . |
| 11 | It was meant to compliment the wisteria , planted four years ago , but Claudia is resigned to the fact it might be still another six years before it puts on a show . |
| 12 | It would be another six years before a Virgin office would open in America again . |
| 13 | He is still optimistic that Richey 's conviction will be overturned , but the case could drag on for another six years or more . |
| 14 | He said that he wo n't return home for another six years and still has 65 countries to visit . ’ |
| 15 | Alf , a well-known all-round sportsman , who still plays socially , was Secretary to the Henley Artisans for some 10 years and had the lucky chance as a man in domestic service , of learning golf on a small private course at Chalkhouse Green . |
| 16 | I have been taking Woodworker now for some 10 years and have at last been inspired to write a letter replying to that of David Thomas in the December issue . |
| 17 | We stayed with the franchise for some three years until we felt to operate on our own . |
| 18 | The conference of 1923 was the culmination of long planning on the part of Lord Darlington ; indeed , in retrospect , one can see clearly how his lordship had been moving towards this point from some three years or so before . |
| 19 | Brazil was the first South American country to host the Federation Cup in 1984 , some 21 years after the event was founded . |
| 20 | The only exception to the ban will be linseed — which farmers can carry on burning for another three years because its fibrous stalks are difficult to plough in . |
| 21 | We could have held out for another three years and got over all the changes and benefited financially , but I do n't believe finance is the be-all and end-all of everything . |
| 22 | Last month , the government passed legislation extending market exclusively for most patent drugs for another three years and modifying Canada 's system of ‘ compulsory licensing ’ , which makes it relatively easy for generic drug companies to copy brand-name products ( see Nature 359 , 351 ; 1992 ) . |
| 23 | And it would be another 55 years before an Australian team paused much longer than to browse the bazaars , while the nations have met just once in Test cricket on the island , in 1983 . |
| 24 | A few hectic years and the Canberra bomber wings had vanished . |
| 25 | In the few thousand years that civilized man has lived on Earth , there has been an extremely large number of volcanic eruptions . |
| 26 | Europe has been around for a few thousand years and to be the first European under ten seconds … well ! |
| 27 | It was another seventy years before it arrived in Sussex , then more by accident than design , at least in human terms ; Bede recounted that a Scottish monk , Dicul , had set up a small monastery with five or six brothers at Bosham in the 660s but none of the natives were willing to follow their way of life or listen to their teaching . |
| 28 | If , after a stiff swig of nectar , we were to watch further developments , we 'd find that in another 100,000 years or so , or even longer , exactly the same thing would happen again , and the compass would swing back suddenly to its original position . |
| 29 | From Tarsus , Paul continues his missionary journey , which lasts some fourteen years and takes him across virtually the whole of the eastern Mediterranean world — not only throughout the Holy Land , but to Asia Minor as well , and across the sea to Greece . |
| 30 | As a director of public health , and having been chief officer to a health authority for some 17 years and having experienced more reorganisations than I care to remember , I can see the career turbulence that the current reforms are producing for some senior doctors in public health medicine . |