Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adj] years they " in BNC.

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1 ‘ If they ca n't get the NHS right after 13 years they never will , ’ he said .
2 The Report began by identifying some 130,000 part-time teachers in further and adult education who were at that time employed by local authorities and although nobody knows how many are employed over the country as a whole at present , even after the severe reductions of recent years they are likely to number more than 100,000 .
3 Every month for four years they met in Melbourne to stuff the magazines into envelopes for Australian subscribers .
4 I saw my first reed bunting 's nest in 1964 in the marsh between the lochs of Spiggie and Brow , and now in the space of twenty-five years they have successfully colonised the islands , and theirs is the only bunting song that today 's Shetland children will know …
5 After remaining in the colony for seven years they can apply for a CI which is a more widely recognised travel document and enables them to become British Dependent Territory Citizens .
6 At the end of three years they were no further on .
7 It 's the first time for 11 years they 've reached the final stages .
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