Example sentences of "[num] year [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Standardised scales are available for children as young as 2 years up to adulthood at 17 years 11 months . |
| 2 | They comprised his journal — a fairly detailed and animated account of his life during nearly forty years up to about 1890- and his letter books , with copies of his correspondence . |
| 3 | Enid says : " Forty years out of date at least . |
| 4 | Census data are used to calculate the scores , but these may be as much as 12 years out of date ( current data were collected in 1981 ; scores based on the 1991 census are expected later this year ) . |
| 5 | For six years up to the war , they had raised millions to help their German cousins and had absorbed over 60,000 refugees , not all of them living off charity by any means , but with the great majority owing thanks to Jewish organisations for giving them a new start . |
| 6 | If you were preparing for the paper to which the above chart refers , it would obviously be very foolish to enter the examination without a very full understanding of topics 1a , 4 and 5 ( six years out of seven ) , but it would be equally foolish to assume that you need pay no attention to 11 ( two years out of seven ) . |
| 7 | The congress elected a restructured party leadership headed by Aleksandur Lilov , who , having spent six years out of favour with Bulgaria 's hardline former leader Todor Zhivkov , had been rehabilitated to the top party ranks only in December 1989 [ see p. 37109 ] . |
| 8 | But he does not believe the English game has fallen behind technically , simply because of the Eighties ban from club competition , saying : ‘ After six years out of Europe our national side finished in the semi-finals of the World Cup . |
| 9 | He did a further two years ' apprenticeship at Covent Garden , and then six years back at the Arts Council in finance department . |
| 10 | Such an idea led to isolated fragmentation of the forest , but in the 10 years up to 1977 over 11000 km of roads were built and settlers moved in . |
| 11 | Born in Germany and raised around the Chiltern Hills , Robert is no ‘ fair dinkum ’ Aussie , but holds dual citizenship after about 10 years down under . |
| 12 | I am not sure that Health Boards will wish to initiate a strategy which is 10 years out of date . |
| 13 | In the 7 years up to 1977 , 7389 families were established as opposed to the goal of 100 000 by 1974 , largely because of poor agricultural yields , in part due to the use of the wrong rice cultivar for Amazonia , problems of storage of produce and of predators and pests , in an imported technology that was too temperate-oriented . |
| 14 | Sangster had been leading owner in this country five times in eight years up to 1985 when Sheikh Mohammed led the Maktoum charge , taking the No. 1 spot four times in row in the past four seasons . |
| 15 | ‘ I persuaded him [ the Millwall manager ] that he had had eight years out of me , and I had nothing to show for it . |
| 16 | These estimates assume eight years out of work altogether and twelve years ' part-time work subsequently . |
| 17 | If she has a break of , in this illustration , eight years out of employment to rear to children , and works part-time for most of the years when they are still at school , the lifetime earning profile is given by the lower line . |
| 18 | One hundred and fifty-five years on from Darwin 's marital dilemma , the major pre-occupation that gave rise to the organization of the conference to which this paper is submitted , is a marriage of a different sort : the study of history and the use of information technology . |
| 19 | Stefan , sucking his miracle tablets at the back of the stalls , muttered to the Direktor , ‘ He 's about fifty years out of date . |
| 20 | Three years on from the first album , Neneh admits that ‘ the till bells are ringing empty . |
| 21 | Some three years on from that initial burst of enthusiasm and the corresponding outcry from the professional market much has changed . |
| 22 | Bosch will be able to buy them out in 1996 for 20.4 times average earnings per share in the previous three years up to a maximum of 394p . |
| 23 | The cash increases in each of the three years up to 1992–93 have been the biggest ever . |
| 24 | Little was done for him in the three years up to his seventeenth birthday when , like so many others , he found companionship and , ironically , the security he craved for by joining the army . |
| 25 | The apprentice varied three years up to , some of them were five . |
| 26 | As my right hon. Friend the Chancellor said , there was a massive increase in business investment in the three years up to 1989 . |
| 27 | Elections of one kind or another are taking place three years out of four : parish , borough , county , European . |
| 28 | He had not quite completed the required three years out of four , but because his examination results had been good , the Senatus stretched a point , and we both got leave to come to Edinburgh for the January 1944 graduation . |
| 29 | They had been persuaded by the energy , enthusiasm and idealism of Peter and Lesley Adamson , both scarcely three years out of university . |
| 30 | She handed him a Lyle 's Price Guide , open at the right page : ‘ It 's three years out of date but look at the prices . ’ |