Example sentences of "[num] years [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout the past 300 years racism has distorted Western thinking about other people and their cultures . |
| 2 | The annual General Household Survey has only included questions on cohabitation since 1979 and estimates suggest that the proportion of women aged 18 to 49 years cohabiting has doubled from 3 per cent in 1979 to 6 per cent in 1987 . |
| 3 | I guess that over the last six years television has given him only a quarter of her exposure . |
| 4 | On the debit side , over the past 10 years output reduced by 35 million tonnes or 28 per cent. , but the parallel decrease in consumption is much less . |
| 5 | Over the past 10 years AI has documented more than 4000 cases of ‘ disappeared ’ people in Peru , scores of summary executions and at least 15 massacres by the security forces . |
| 6 | The product of umpteen years research has just been revealed : The Black Hornet . |
| 7 | So anyone who wants to study competition , travel and world capitalism in the 1980s for a PhD programme in fifty years time had better take a good look now . |
| 8 | Deputy Curator Rob Shorland Ball stated that while there were no immediate plans for her future operation outside the museum there is still a further three years life left on her ‘ normal ’ boiler certificate . |
| 9 | In the past three years subject has been associated with at least two men other than her husband in circumstances giving rise to a strong presumption that the relationships were of a sexual nature … |
| 10 | Over the previous three years perestroika had become a reality ; the Soviet people themselves had changed , and were facing facts that had earlier been obscured from them . |
| 11 | The Synod has been here about three years running has n't it . |
| 12 | AFTER 21 years service has covered his drawing board for the last time to take up the more leisurely pursuits of photography and walking in his retirement . |
| 13 | Within sixteen years tapestry-making had become an important and interesting local craft industry . |
| 14 | For fifteen thousand years computer has worked , thought , learnt , grown . |
| 15 | Today the specialised and expensive training which demands a minimum of 5 years commitment continues . |
| 16 | The remaining seven months of Minutes up to January 1909 , when the 11 years silence started , give quite a few insights into the growing pains of a new untried enterprise , although some club business has a familiarly contemporary ring ! |
| 17 | So a thirty year old service might be entirely different than a person with ten years service deferring his pension . |
| 18 | For ten years Law had been at the heart of the party 's reactions to political events , largely because his own views mirrored those of his followers almost exactly . |
| 19 | ‘ In the last ten years football has been littered with Wembley teams who have gone down . ’ |
| 20 | Well you 've got ten years interest to pay , ai n't ya . |
| 21 | The size of the epidemic in five or ten years time has not been estimated with confidence ; the epidemic will be determined by the number of people with HIV infection who develop AIDS over time . |
| 22 | Over the past fifteen years concern has been growing over the environmental effects and social costs of ‘ acid rain' . |
| 23 | In the last five years evaluation has received much attention in UK academic libraries and particularly in parts of the research projects sponsored by the BLR&DD . |
| 24 | Again , the proposals of the Next Five Years Group anticipated many of the developments of the 1940s , such as a National Development Board , greater public investment in housing , the co-ordination of social services to achieve a ‘ National Minimum ’ , the expansion of secondary education , and town and country planning . |
| 25 | The pressure groups such as Political and Economic Planning and the Next Five Years Group had already foreshadowed many of the policies indicated by the Beveridge report , while the BMA was already an advocate of the creation of a comprehensive health service . |
| 26 | The views he expressed in The Middle Way , published in 1938 , pointing towards a managed economy and the expansion of welfare services to achieve a national minimum , came close to expressing the essential ingredients of what both PEP and the Next Five Years Group wanted in the way of a change of direction by the National Government . |
| 27 | The Next Five Years Group tended towards a less technocratic style . |
| 28 | But of course , five years difference meant that he and I were not relating as equals until I was about sixteen , and then the war separated us . |
| 29 | During the last twenty years advertising has enjoyed many important changes such as the introduction of colour television commercial radio , and colour printing in newspapers . |
| 30 | I 've just retired from the Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service after just over thirty years service having reached , reached the er full time that I matured , that 's thirty years service and attaining the ripe old age of fifty five . |