Example sentences of "[prep] just [adv] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've just retired from the Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service after just over thirty years service having reached , reached the er full time that I matured , that 's thirty years service and attaining the ripe old age of fifty five . |
| 2 | Well it does , I mean it 's it 's I mean I 've been there about just over three years , three and a half years . |
| 3 | The first Sunday School Superintendent was Mr Alfred Lowe and he remained Superintendent for just over nine years . |
| 4 | Yes , yeah fourth of September nineteen thirty nine and course erm the erm and six months after the , aft to the day really , I erm went into the forces and served in the Army for just over six years . |
| 5 | We 'd been in our first house for just over five years , and I 'd served my d-i-y apprenticeship then , improving slightly as each room was restored and decorated . |
| 6 | He had lived in the caravan now for just over two years , supported by a research grant from his northern university to study the effect of the Industrial Revolution on the rural industries of East Anglia . |
| 7 | Sixteen-year-old Michael , from Stowmarket , has been shooting for just over two years , and his dedication and practice paid off as he came a magnificent third place in the senior compound section . |
| 8 | It drifted the globe for just over two years looking for a port to discharge the ash , and even changed its name to the Pelicano in an attempt to escape detection . |
| 9 | We can blame the schools for not providing the right conditions , we can blame the government and local education authorities for not giving sufficient attention to in-service training , but I think the buck must rest with people like me who had by that date been employed in teacher-training for just over ten years . |
| 10 | In Hilary term 1313 he was appointed a justice of the Common Bench and served in that capacity for just over three years . |
| 11 | Er , John work for Management Services , I 'm a Systems Analyst and been with C U for just over three years now . |
| 12 | There ca n't , after all , be many limestone quarries whose link with a Trent and Mersey feeder canal at Froghall demanded no less than four railways built in succession within a space of just over 70 years and all on different alignments . |
| 13 | The music , from a period of just over sixty years , varies considerably in character . |
| 14 | In France the post-mortem period is , typically , fifty years but those authors and artists affected by the two World Wars were granted a prolongation of the copyright term , giving an effective expiry of just over sixty-four years after their death . |
| 15 | Raising a glass to each other on their retirement from John Murray last month after a combined total of 88 years representing the company , many of them spent on the road , were left , John Harbour , who joined the company in 1944 , and Ron Church , with just over 40 years of service under his belt . |
| 16 | With just under six years of office still to run , Mr Ozal presumably calculates that the party needs his popularity much more than he needs the party — particularly if there is to be an early general election to take advantage of an alliance victory in the Gulf war . |
| 17 | As the way is now open , with the agreement of the House , for us to join a single currency in just over five years , will my right hon. Friend spell out clearly to the House and to the people of this country what benefits will or may derive to them from a single currency ? |
| 18 | This missions , chaplaincies and institutions of the diocese all combined generously to provide the necessary money , grants were secured from SPG and from SPCK , and in just over two years the new building was raised , waiting for the foundation stone to be laid during the opportune visit of the Metropolitan of Calcutta , the Most Reverend Foss Westcott , son of the famous biblical scholar and bishop of Durham . |
| 19 | That 's certainly what the routine has given Josh and his 32 year wife Laura in just over four years the couple have had five children . |
| 20 | It is astounding to find that the Gilberts Californian real-estate and property magnates have managed to acquire a collection of this importance in just over thirty years . |
| 21 | Yes , the world is losing its precious rainforest : in Central America , for example , the decline has been 38% in just over 30 years . |
| 22 | In all , the forced loan of 1542 , the benevolences of 1544 and 1545 , the parliamentary taxes of 1540 , 1543 , and 1545 , together with clerical subsidies and lesser taxes , brought in about £1 m. in just over seven years . |
| 23 | Hodder 's example is shown in table 6.1 : the project hypothesized recovers imputed interest and capital outlay in just over seven years . |
| 24 | For the third time in just over twenty years Giovanni Bellini 's ‘ Madonna and Child ’ has been stolen from the church of the Madonna dell'Orto in Venice . |
| 25 | Cooper Oils are phasing the shutdown … the site will be emptied in just under two years . |
| 26 | He reached the milestone in just under three years — but his 109 matches were five more than it took Lewis Jones , of Leeds , to hit the same target in the 1950s . |
| 27 | It had about two hundred and fifty pupils aged from five to just under twelve years old . |
| 28 | Kenny made his League debut for the Palace at Tranmere in May 1975 at just over 16 years of age and is the second youngest player ever to appear in the Palace first team . |
| 29 | John outlived his wife by just over two years , dying on 5 June 1828 . |
| 30 | ‘ Gustav 's the younger by just over two years … he was nine when his father died … they moved away from Rostock , went to stay with relatives in the Harz mountains … mother married again and rather faded away , they were brought up mostly by grandparents and aunts . |