Example sentences of "[vb -s] a [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | The database has extensive disaggregation by country , distinguishes fourteen commodity groups and covers a twenty year span of data . |
| 2 | Our analysis covers a 19 year period and includes some patients who took atenolol for over 10 years . |
| 3 | He starts a four year physiotherapy course at the Ulster University , Jordanstown later this year . |
| 4 | Willie 's story starts a few years before his first Open triumph , and bears out his theory that his golf destiny was ‘ written in the stars ’ . |
| 5 | He and I have had a series of meetings about the provision of the slip road , and he reminded me of an undertaking that I had given when Minister responsible for health matters a few years ago . |
| 6 | Skandia ( 071–220 3520 ) also has a two year bond on offer , at 7.9% . |
| 7 | Also a friend of mine has a two year old brother who tries to have sex with his teddy bear . |
| 8 | Pure Class International restores classic Jensens , and has a four year waiting list . |
| 9 | Justine Darling has a five year old daughter at the school . |
| 10 | The sale of the Dowty companies comes as no surprise to workers but as Dowty has a 40 year history in Gloucestershire , employees say it 's sad to see the group being dismantled . |
| 11 | Situated at the top of Duddingston Loch , this is the oldest licensed Inn in Scotland ( 1360 ) and has a 250 year old skittle alley . |
| 12 | For the Nineties , it 's safe to predict that the nostalgia boom has a few years left to run , that Neneh Cherry , Roland Gift and Terence Trent D'Arby will become as big as they want to be , and that Bobby Brown 's crafty commercialisation of rap , soul and a vast ego will give Wacko a run for his money quite soon . |
| 13 | He has a few years on me — maybe ten — and sometimes he treats me like the son he never had . |
| 14 | Tritium has a 12.3 year half-life , which is the same as saying that 5.5 per cent of its atoms decay each year . |
| 15 | Crane Holdings have just taken over Grey Rook PLC , which has a three year trading record . |
| 16 | He says a few years ago I asked my father 's test pilot Geoffrey Quill about this business of the seagulls and he told me your father was a hard-headed engineer and if he was stuck for inspiration he would never have wasted time watching bloody seagulls ! |
| 17 | It means Aylesbury Vale Health Authority will now be able to comply will the new patients charter , which says a 2 year wait for treatment should be the maximum . |
| 18 | Strachan scores a New Year winner |
| 19 | A pupil at Fernhill School , Rutherglen , she plans a sixth year with a view to going to university to study law . |
| 20 | Last night a close friend said : ‘ He 's really chuffed , it seals a great year for him . |
| 21 | Today 's announcment ends a fifty year association between Upper Heyford and the American Airforce . |
| 22 | Now light , presumably erm one of the reasons one chooses a light year as a unit or a distance is because it 's a convenient number , but also presumably because it does n't change very much with any physical factor . |
| 23 | The solvency margin worldwide includes a full year estimate of premium income in respect of direct general insurance business acquired from Prudential in Canada on 30th November , 1992 . |
| 24 | Solvency margin worldwide at 31st December 1992 and 26th February 1993 includes a full year estimate of premium income in respect of direct general insurance business acquired from Prudential in Canada on 30th November 1992 . |
| 25 | The solvency margin worldwide includes a full year estimate of premium income in respect of direct general insurance business acquired from Prudential in Canada on 30th November , 1992 . |
| 26 | Curt Stauss records a tumultuous year in a small East German industrial town engulfed by pollution . |
| 27 | A second system , not costly in labour or drugs , has been devised for farms where arable crops , sheep and cattle are major components and involves a three year rotation of cattle , sheep and crops . |
| 28 | The development of what we still see as the modern corporation began with Pierre S. du Pont 's restructuring of his family company in the early twenties and continued with Alfred P. Sloan 's redesign of General Motors a few years later . |
| 29 | Cocaine Roy Garner gets a 22 year sentence for smuggling £100 million worth of drug into Britain . |
| 30 | This is a programme similar to your Volunteer Service Organisation and is requires a two year commitment to work in a developing country . |