Example sentences of "[num] years [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Used for 30 years on British potatoes , tecnazene is now under investigation by the Governments ' Advisory Committee on Medicines for its possible impact on aquatic and human life . |
| 2 | Raw stuff in 1964 , nearly 30 years on Entertaining Mr Sloane still packs a punch , Joe Orton 's target being the humbug and hypocrisy of suburban life , writes Christopher Grier . |
| 3 | However , Goram had to be patient while Jim Leighton , the man in possession of Scotland 's goalkeeping jersey , entered the SFA 's Hall of Fame and then departed the top flight under circumstances his room-mate for six years on foreign trips calls ‘ disgraceful ’ . |
| 4 | It officially plans to spend 220 billion yuan ( $55 billion ) over the next 10 years on environmental improvements . |
| 5 | BIUI TOSI A reverie lasting more than a hundred and forty-two years on cosmological themes ; the sound of air in a cavern ; long dark hair |
| 6 | We we draw a clear distinction between provision in Craven , Harrogate , Hambledon where constraint was suggested spread over fifteen years on dispersed housing sites . |
| 7 | Twelve years back that contract had expired and he had set up his own Company , but that venture had failed after only three years . |
| 8 | SOBI A reverie lasting less than twenty years on cosmological themes ; a nickel |
| 9 | two years up front . |
| 10 | But has proposed that NASA spend an additional $ 550 million over the next four years on civil aviation research , raising the government 's level of support beyond the limit if , as seems likely , sales remain stagnant . |
| 11 | WE are sad to report the death of on March 25. , 58 , worked at Burstwick Mill for the past 20 years on raw materials intake . |
| 12 | Almost every major work of scholarship written in the past six or seven years on recent British political history has taken a far more balanced view of him than seemed likely at the time of his death . |