Example sentences of "[num] years [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll miss football and the day-to-day involvement after over 30 years boy and man . |
| 2 | — Special presentation parties were held for George Flowers , treasurer of Framwellgate Moor Workmen 's Club , who has retired after 30 years service and for Consett Station Social Club steward Freddie Emmerson on his retirement . |
| 3 | It 's been re-opened today after 2 years renovation and the new tenants will be paying £15,000 this year alone . |
| 4 | , SE region poultry adviser who has retired after 22 years service and more than 750,000 miles ! |
| 5 | In 1914 the Manor was purchased by a body of British subscribers and presented to the peoples of Britain and the United States of America in celebration of 100 years peace and friendship between the two nations . |
| 6 | The improvement occurred even in women more than 10 years postmenopausal and in both ulcerative colitis and Crohn 's disease . |
| 7 | A source close to Saatchi insists that there is ‘ absolutely no intention of dispersing the collection ’ and is equally adamant that ‘ the collection will be greater in five or 10 years time than it is now . ’ |
| 8 | We talk to him in his language and we have tried to lift as much of the experience from his mind as we can so that it does n't fester , get covered over , then burst out in 10 years time and turn him into a disturbed child . |
| 9 | Anchorlite Slate is the result of 10 years research and development to produce a replacement for natural slate that is virtually indistinguishable both in weight and visual appeal . |
| 10 | Pipe Major John K McAllister is stepping down after 45 years service and Pipe Major George McFetridge after 35 years . |
| 11 | Because we must remember that Iraq has already had an eight years war and they 're used to a war , they used to withstanding a war and it was the only reason that Britain survived in the last world war because it could withstand attack , and wait and wait until they were ready to counter attack . |
| 12 | Jimmy Carter 's presidency , like that of Gerald Ford , began on an optimistic note with commentators deriving satisfaction from the fact that for the first time for eight years president and Congress would be in the hands of the same party . |
| 13 | Fifty years drumming and still going strong is legendary figure John Rea from Saintfield Pipe Band , who is still much in demand as a leading Irish and Scottish adjudicator . |
| 14 | if you wanted it more for , as a gift in ten , eleven years time as you 've said |
| 15 | Over the next three years Dun & Bradstreet says its business will evolve into three different areas . |
| 16 | If you said well you ca n't apply this time , you may be able to in three years time but pragmatists they like something that they can take away and then put into practice straight away and they can try out . |
| 17 | Detention in young offender institution — offender aged sixteen pleading guilty to offence punishable with fourteen years imprisonment or more — whether wrong in principle to impose sentence of twelve months ' detention in a young offender institution |
| 18 | Mr Mann is a dedicated professional , a teacher with 17 years experience and currently headmaster of the 260-pupil Belvoir Park Primary School in Belfast . |
| 19 | Similarly , if a cancer is found at a screening colonoscopy in a patient presenting to a unit years after the programme entry date for example , colitis of 17 years duration or when referred from another centre it can not be counted a success becaue these cancers represent a selected group detected outside the regular surveillance protocol . |
| 20 | 12 days/2 weeks = 6 days , Average working week Caluclation A is for those employees who have less than 5 years service and are therefore on 20 days annual leave |
| 21 | limited ( third party ) ( 1991 ) policy did not provide indemnity of survey carried out by nominated person not holding professional qualifications or with 5 years experience and supervised by professionally qualified person . |
| 22 | He had returned to Trinidad in May , 1958 , after 25 years absence and was clearly impressed by the mass support for Eric Williams and the P.N.M. ‘ With a movement like this you can do anything ’ , he informed Williams . |
| 23 | As reported exclusively in Angler 's Mail , Kent-based Ashford AS gave up 12 miles of the canal after 88 years tenancy because of a long-running row with the National Rivers Authority 's Southern region . |
| 24 | So we 've got this group of people who are and just retired , they 're sixty-five and have just retired , and they 're looking forward to their pension le lo losing completely in two-and-a-half years time unless something 's done about it . |
| 25 | . In ten years time if you just give them a derisory thirty pence off people leave their children at home make it easier for them to bring them with them . . |
| 26 | At er well this week you sort of look back and say yeah but erm in about ten years time if you come and ask me the same question I would be able be in a better position to give you an answer . |
| 27 | In Memory of Benjamin J. Titford. 37 years organist and schoolmaster of this parish . |
| 28 | In 1828 , after a period when cattle stealing had been rarely and lightly punished , the Supreme Court in session at Matara convicted a number of men , including some headmen , and sentenced each to five years imprisonment and two hundred lashes . |
| 29 | This was only the second or third time in its five years existence that the company had bought a car . |
| 30 | But if you have n't got that amount of capital it takes capital out of your hands and you ca n't spend it in five years time if you need it because you 've given it away effectively forever . |