Example sentences of "years [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This was only the second or third time in its five years existence that the company had bought a car . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In recent years tunny fishing has become a popular sport around Madeira , and there are now many sport fishing boats available for hire . |
| 15 | It seems likely that in the next few years funding will be increased minimally and competition will also grow . |
| 16 | For a few years funding for memory research became hard to come by . |
| 17 | RIBA endorses 5 years funding for architectural education |
| 18 | In recent years funding and management of the health service has become something of a political football . |
| 19 | For fifteen thousand years computer has worked , thought , learnt , grown . |
| 20 | The crest is actually smaller than last years Admiral due to some new UEFA/FIFA regulation . |
| 21 | International banking is an interesting business anyway , but what makes it rather more interesting in this case — both to me and to the hapless Ohioans whose money I am selling — is that I am 25 years old with just one and a half years banking experience . |
| 22 | As Mr Gladstone has pointed out , in the last few years progress has been far more rapid because improved education has created in all classes of the community an increased desire and appetite for literature which did not formerly exist , and that can only be supplied by means of such public libraries in which we are now met . |
| 23 | In fact , studies on groups of retired people have shown that as the years progress , the demarcation lines between the accepted division of roles begins to blur , and there is more sharing of domestic tasks . |
| 24 | Aunt Tossie , for many years mistress of Deer Forest , understood very well how girls must have their chatter after a ball . |
| 25 | After the initial two years exposure of the pellets , the bones were indistinguishable from those from the main pellet collection . |
| 26 | Throughout the lunar core samples , which extend well below a few millimetres , the exposure ages of the grains are similar at all depths and correspond to a few million years exposure to the cosmic-ray intensity in the present Solar System . |
| 27 | The Twiston-Davies Scudamore stable at Naunton , have last years winner ’ Tipping Tim ’ running and from the Nicholson yard comes ’ Second Schedule ’ . |
| 28 | This would amount to £216 3s as the value of a florin at this period was 3/ , this sum with 25 marks which he paid to the Pope for his consent was about one years income of this bishopric . |
| 29 | When my hon. Friend returns to his desk after the next election has been won by the Conservatives , will he bear it in mind that in the past 10 years west Lancashire has benefited greatly from being a development area ? |
| 30 | In 1946 the mines were nationalised with the vigorous support of the miners after sixty years resistance by the coal-owners , and shortly afterwards the petty bourgeoisie of the medical profession were organised into a National Health Service . |