Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [verb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hair needs moisturising all year long which is why more and more products are formulated with effective conditioning ingredients . |
| 2 | He says the Hercules has had 30 years service , and there are 2,000 of them . |
| 3 | In 1987 AMV invested in McBain Noel-Johnson , a design and advertising agency which Baulk helped found 20 years ago . |
| 4 | I feel a sense of loyalty , that after erm the education department has paid four years for me |
| 5 | The industry has had 26 years grace for other forms of advertising . |
| 6 | For example , employers can now pay full pension , without actuarial reduction , at any age between 50 and 70 , provided an employee has completed 20 years ' service with the organisation . |
| 7 | Technical advice from fellow Lancastrian John Spencer helped to land last year 's title and he is again in his corner . |
| 8 | After this president has served six years in the post , his successor will be chosen by popular election . |
| 9 | HAMBURG-based DJ Alex Christensen has spent three years restoring a vintage Cadillac . |
| 10 | The Jerusalem that Richard tried to capture 700 years ago is proof of that . |
| 11 | One practice has used last year 's savings to clear its waiting list totally for eye , orthopaedic , and ear , nose , and throat surgery by purchasing the operations from the private sector . |
| 12 | In contrast to the Hanmers , the Chidlows seem to have experienced years of relentless poverty . |
| 13 | The G7 nations began pressing last year for international laws aimed at protecting the world 's forests , but North and South have remained divided over should foot the bill . |
| 14 | In such cases failure is even more painful than with a home student , and one has heard rumours of failed candidates having to return several years of fees to their government , and suffering even worse penalties . |
| 15 | It was the day after Marie went missing four years ago . |
| 16 | A director once commented that Kiefer Sutherland had lived two years for every one that had passed . |
| 17 | Discussions over the Chevron deal had started four years previously , and were renewed when the collapse of the Soviet Union in December 1991 allowed control over natural resources to pass to individual republics . |
| 18 | Renault had decided two years previously to close the plant , with the loss of 4,000 jobs ; production was moved to more functional and efficient sites in north-east France . |
| 19 | Nowell , a solicitor , and his wife Penny have taken thirty years to develop the lovely garden at Baubles which now boasts ornamental and wildlife ponds and a wide variety of trees , shrubs , a tennis court and a swimming pool . |
| 20 | Marked animals have survived three years as adults , so this figure may be an under-estimate . |
| 21 | With the 50th anniversary of the USAAF in the UK , many books have appeared this year , and will probably continue to do so . |
| 22 | Today 's results show that many teenagers have been hit by the recession , with the average pocket money received falling this year . |
| 23 | Ellcock plans to spend two years pursuing his interest in flying ( he already has a pilot 's licence ) and furthering his education . |
| 24 | Alan Stout has served three years for abusing boys as young as ten in Worcester . |
| 25 | LOYD Grossman has spent six years showing 12 million TV viewers how the other half live . |
| 26 | Brian May has spent five years making his debut solo album . |
| 27 | This lady has spent many years studying the life of the people who lived in these parts in former times . ’ |
| 28 | The legal profession has already put forward alternative proposals which would save the money the Lord Chancellor requires to save next year . |
| 29 | Lord Mountbatten had spent ten years tirelessly promoting the dream , talking about it all over the world , often in the highest places , inspiring everyone around him and shamelessly raising money to build more colleges . |
| 30 | The settlement was already declining by 1340 , with sheep flocks one-third of those the village had boasted forty years earlier . |