Example sentences of "[num] years at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | With regard to the Bill , after 30 years at the criminal Bar and 35 years in politics , I have been driven reluctantly to the conclusion that fear is a more effective motivator of human behaviour than anything else , especially when dealing with people of ill will . |
| 2 | Children under 2 years at the time of the return journey travel for just £15 on all flights . |
| 3 | Children aged under 2 years at the time of departure are covered free of charge , provided all other persons on the Booking Form are insured under this scheme . |
| 4 | Which can be up to ten years , providing that does n't take your service over forty years at the age of sixty or over what you would have attained had you remained in service until the age of sixty five . |
| 5 | A two-test defeat is a difficult way to bow out after six years at the top . |
| 6 | A MAN was jailed for six years at the High Court in Glasgow yesterday for his part in attempting to murder a man after luring him into a night of torture . |
| 7 | The offences were committed over six years at the society 's museum at Comrie , initially when the accused was a trustee of the society and latterly when he was curator . |
| 8 | celebrated 100 years at the Suffolk Show in May and to top the occasion collected first prize for the most attractive non-machinery agricultural stand at the show . |
| 9 | Although much research is underway throughout the world , it is unlikely that any effective vaccine will be widely available for another 10 years at the earliest . |
| 10 | In spite of the fact that there has been a very long tradition of work on rural land use , including the invaluable land use survey of the 1930s ( Stamp , 1962 ) , and its revival in the second survey of the 1960s and 1970s * ( Coleman et al , 1974 ) and much other detailed work from other sources ( Hart , 1980 ; Coppock , 1960a ; Best , 1981 ) as shown in Table 8. 1 , there is still a desperate need ( Hall , 1 974 , 414 ) for a ‘ national Domesday book for land use , preferably updated every 10 years at the time of the population census ’ . |
| 11 | As we move into 1993 The Women Artists Slide Library will be presenting a profile on its work and development over the last 10 years at the Centre 181 Gallery , King Street , in Hammersmith , London . |
| 12 | supernormal growth firm : supernormal growth for 10 years at the rate g s = 25% p.a. , followed by constant growth at the rate g = 7% p.a . |
| 13 | John Williams , Master of the Jewels and Treasurer of Augmentations under Henry VIII , avoided rendering any accounts whatever during his eight years at the Jewel-House , piled up large arrears in Augmentations , and embezzled £31,000 which were not entered in the books . |
| 14 | In 1965 I came to work with Basil as an art adviser in the West Riding after lecturing for eight years at the Froebel Institute in Roehampton . |
| 15 | So the first opportunity I had I left Bradley 's and went back to the Lock so it 'd been war direction , war service we asked and it counted as me service with the Lock , that I had n't interrupted me service being as I was directed so that 's how I say I had fifty years at the Lock . |
| 16 | He tells The Art Newspaper , ‘ Philip Pouncey ( the leading British drawings connoisseur until his death last year ) used to bemoan the fact that during his eleven years at the National Gallery in London , almost no connection was ever made between the two by curators . |
| 17 | ONE can explain satisfactorily the uncorroded condition of Holland 1 , the Royal Navy 's first submarine , after 70 years at the bottom of the English Channel . |
| 18 | It must be remembered that na umpire in professional cricket is generally some 70 years at the nearest point from the rope . |
| 19 | After more exposure in the West End , he spent three years at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre , playing 12 large Shakespeare roles with distinction . |
| 20 | Philip brought his young bride Ann Escourt to his ‘ new mansion ’ , as a neighbour described it , but she died within three years at the age of twenty-four and is buried here in the churchyard . |
| 21 | Generally speaking , one may say that apart from dispositions by will , a deed , i.e. a sealed writing , is necessary , though leases in possession for not more than three years at the best rent obtainable without taking a premium may still be made without a deed or even by word of mouth . |
| 22 | After more than three years at the Manor , he had managed to pull round the farms and get the timber business running smoothly . |
| 23 | For example , it said I had a daughter called Samantha ( which is not true ) , and it said that I had a Citroen car ( which I do n't — I drive a Renault ) and that I spent three years at the Royal College of Art painting ten-inch red stripes on a piece of canvas and then it quoted me and it said : ' ’ I do n't know why we did it , ’ says Terry . |
| 24 | Dr Whelan had spent three years at the Chester Beatty and had devoted herself to a detailed study of this particular Qur'an . |
| 25 | He already had an engineer 's licence , the product of nearly three years at the AST ( Air Services Training ) school of aeronautical engineering near Perth . |
| 26 | A basic page printer has a rated life ; Canon engines are good for 3,000 pages per month , Ricoh 's can handle 5,000 , and you should expect them to last around three years at the full rated use . |
| 27 | ‘ And I feel I have another three years at the top , after which , who knows … ’ he sighs . |
| 28 | The Middlesbrough businessman cited work commitments and the need for a clean break as his main reasons for deciding to call it quits after three years at the helm . |
| 29 | A FORMER tyre depot manager involved in drug dealing was jailed for three years at the High Court in Aberdeen yesterday . |
| 30 | The Headmaster had decided that he would retire when he had completed 21 years at the School ; the Chairman of Governors had recently celebrated his 80th birthday , and was considering his future commitments ; the Bursar had also decided to retire : it seemed that there would be a new team at the top to take the School on from its 475th birthday . |