Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [num] years [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Henry ) Wooden , his valet for seven years who on his marriage left his service and came to Henley where he worked at the Brewery for 30 years . |
| 2 | and erm , you know , they spend it on the six of them pocket money for sixteen years it all of them have left school now |
| 3 | C.1 which are brought after a certain period because the Vendor would otherwise have a contingent liability for six years which is unacceptable ; the Vendor wants to know after a reasonable period that it is free from any further claims . |
| 4 | One woman derelict told her that after living with three husbands for twenty-five years she had decided to give them up and devote herself to the task of viewing the Cathedrals and Abbeys of the British Isles . |
| 5 | ‘ Look at Peter Gabriel , who does in fact get slagged off , and f—ing right and all , but he has n't made an album for six years which is longer than me , but he 's a current performer whereas I 'm an old lag who 's coming back . |
| 6 | When you 've lived on subsistence for two years what do you do when your shoes wear out , when you get a £100 fuel bill , when the washing machine breaks down , when a pair of children 's shoes cost you more than you 'd spend on your own ? |
| 7 | Almost every Saturday for three years I put on my black skirt , my white blouse , my newly polished shoes and my uniform white frilly apron . |
| 8 | If you change the term to 10 years you will discover two things : first the column of results is n't wide enough and second , after increasing the column width , you find that the final amount is £1,638 including £438 interest and the earnings ratio is more than double , at 36.57% . |
| 9 | While they had shared championship success when they had first met , after a split of four years it was their second era together that brought the ultimate honour for them both — the 1987 Open Championship title . |
| 10 | In the course of fifteen years I have slowly worked my way up from the people , together with this Movement . |
| 11 | Although she has lived in England for 17 years she only married her husband , Qi Can Huang , three years ago . |
| 12 | Jane for two years she 's enjoyed the course so far but she thinks |
| 13 | Within that two years , any time within that two years you can basically be given the sack for not coming up to the grade or not coming up to scratch or sometimes they prolong your pr probation for another six months so instead of being a probationer constable for two years you 're a probationer constable for two and a half years . |
| 14 | Having been confined to a wheelchair for 18 years I had been in similar situations to this . |
| 15 | I mean for instance on the question of identification after 45 years it 's very difficult , I saw that in the Demianuk trial , to get satisfactory er evidence , but of course er I think British rules of evidence probably would simply mean it was excluded if that was the case , and it was fairly done and the law were n't changed and it was the law as it stands er then I 'd be in favour of it . |
| 16 | Being with the band for 12 years you might think that Marlene would get fed up with their music . |
| 17 | Having lived in Walton for 29 years she has witnessed how much of the cliff has already been lost to the sea . |
| 18 | ‘ If they ca n't get the NHS right after 13 years they never will , ’ he said . |
| 19 | I was subsequently paid to fly by the RAF ; after a lapse of 33 years I returned to the skies five years ago , when I could finally afford a share in a Cherokee which I now fly regularly from Ludham . |
| 20 | Over a period of nine years it has become clear that the breeders referred to in the cup of that name do not include those operating on this side of the pond . |
| 21 | While this study is limited to one university and deals with a relatively small intake of mature students over a period of six years it does demonstrate that non-standard entry mature students can do particularly well when compared with other students . |
| 22 | Over a period of fifteen years he noted that not only were the ridge and furrow patterns of each individual 's prints unique , but that they never changed . |
| 23 | Barnard inherited a large fortune from his father : over a period of fifty years he devoted himself to the formation of a collection of prints , drawings , and paintings , becoming one of the foremost connoisseurs of his day . |
| 24 | Despite a foreign exchange crisis which later resulted in the devaluation of the lira and its suspension from the ERM [ see p. 39080 ] , President Oscar Scalfaro vetoed a government request , announced on Sept. 9 , for emergency economic powers for a period of three years which would allow it to act rapidly by decree if the Bank of Italy decided that the national economy was endangered . |
| 25 | But levied over a period of three years it brought in about £80,000 and became the prototype for later subsidies . |
| 26 | The government announced on Nov. 26 that over a period of three years it intended to cut 122,000 government jobs — approximately one fifth of state employees — at an estimated saving to the state of the equivalent of US$1,500 million . |
| 27 | In a period of ten years he recorded at least thirty proven cases of clairvoyance between himself , or his wife , and a horse . |
| 28 | Over a period of twenty years it is claimed that a fast reactor could breed enough additional plutonium to fuel another similar power station . |
| 29 | According to bogus sexologist Dr John R Brinkley , goat glands held the secret to combating male impotence and over a period of twenty years he amassed a fortune of more than $12 million administering them to 16,000 men worried about their sexual inadequacies . |
| 30 | Your lust for her knew no bounds and when this loyal woman spurned you for her husband of twenty years you wreaked a terrible revenge ! ’ |