Example sentences of "years [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two years contract banker 's order deposit cheque . |
| 2 | Now it is totally true , that the start of that O C S contract was a disaster , and it is also true that several months on , the pay of the cleaners is still not being correctly done , and concerns are being raised in the governors , it 's a four years contract , being an L M S contract , and under G M S they are submitting one year contracts . |
| 3 | You could store these for another two years mum . |
| 4 | I said I 'll ha take one pair and er the lady 's called Irene , she 's had the shop for years and years mum always gets and I got those stockings for you |
| 5 | Over the past few years galleries have been springing up in Berlin 's Fasanenstrasse and its surrounding district , making it the ideal starting point for a gallery tour . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In the pre-war years Moscow had state-to-state relations with only two Latin American nations : Mexico ( 1924–30 ) and Uruguay ( 1926–35 ) . |
| 8 | Within a few years clubs appeared all over the country . |
| 9 | The question may well be asked as to why Henley Golf Club decided to record its history after 80 years existence , when more appropriate landmarks such as its Jubilee year of 1957 or its Diamond Jubilee could have been utilised . |
| 10 | This was only the second or third time in its five years existence that the company had bought a car . |
| 11 | Royal Aberdeen Golf Club had a more original way of observing its 200 years existence with a Royal Aberdeen Bicentenary Whisky blended for the special birthday occasion . |
| 12 | Had he agreed to resign , he would have been entitled to his superannuation for 29 years ' service in Poor Law Institutions ; as it was , he was given only the nine years entitlement from his time at Bedford . |
| 13 | For the last 20 years researchers have been able to calculate genome sizes and mutation rates . |
| 14 | In fact , she found in her review that there seemed to be a great of continuity , that again and again over these forty years researchers were reporting similar sorts of social and psychological impacts of unemployment . |
| 15 | Over the past four years Colin French has been in and out of court … receiving sixty-five convictions for cruelty . |
| 16 | For all those years Adolph Brückner had guarded his bloody loot and built his reputation as an art lover around it . |
| 17 | Miss Kingsley was a practical woman ; she had spent years housekeeping for her family and was thirty before she left on the first of her journeys to West Africa in 1893 , taking with her boots , blankets and a hot-water bottle . |
| 18 | Fred by Posy Simmonds LOUISE CHUNN ( mother of Charlie , 3 ¾ , and Alice , 1 ½ ) Bill 's New Frock , by Ann Fine ( Methuen , £6.95 ) Winner of Smarties Book Prize 89 ( 6-8 years category ) Bill 's an obliging little boy . |
| 19 | This is a highly unusual feature , and for many years palaeontologists have interpreted cephalapsids using the lamprey as the model . |
| 20 | In more recent years provision by the associations of advisory services in labour matters , dispute settlement procedures and legislative issues — as well as pressure-group activities — have all become general , reflecting the increasing complexity of industrial relations and the enlarged role of government . |
| 21 | During those years Will wrote a lot of poetry . |
| 22 | Over the last several years 23% more IBMers are working with customers . |
| 23 | In the following years discussions continued between the officers at the Boards and at headquarters in an attempt to sort out a practical level of detail which preserved the Authority 's control over general policy and coordination , while reserving clearly local matters to the Area Boards . |
| 24 | In later years wave after wave of Confucian , Hindu , Buddhist , Christian and Islamic influences swept from the flowering civilizations of Asia and entwined with the pre-existing " oceanic " animism of the islanders . |
| 25 | In recent years tunny fishing has become a popular sport around Madeira , and there are now many sport fishing boats available for hire . |
| 26 | It seems likely that in the next few years funding will be increased minimally and competition will also grow . |
| 27 | For a few years funding for memory research became hard to come by . |
| 28 | RIBA endorses 5 years funding for architectural education |
| 29 | In recent years funding and management of the health service has become something of a political football . |
| 30 | Then , you see , at certain periods of the years herbs were common , bloom , which a lot of it was used . |