Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [prep] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have had considerable difficulty in the current year , in meeting the demand upon children 's services , and we have met those difficulties , in no small part , from the use of carry forwards within the year , and before you come to looking at reductions in services on the salmon papers , the children 's service is going to , and in fact is doing a redirection of its funding to ensure that it stays within its base budget in future years . |
| 2 | A family man himself , Hamilton paid blackmail money for two years to the cuckolded James Reynolds and his wife Maria . |
| 3 | It is a fact that the written essay — usually of 400 to 500 words long — has dominated the English language and literature curriculum for many years because it has been seen as the main vehicle for the transmission of knowledge in written examinations . |
| 4 | In the first half , Linfield , playing in their first Euro tie at Windsor Park for six years , never gave the Georgians a chance to settle . |
| 5 | With the increase in home burglaries and storm damage over recent years , it may be that domestic insurance rates are set to rise steeply . |
| 6 | Such arguments perhaps illustrate the extent of the fall from grace to positivist criminology in recent years . |
| 7 | Thus older people predominate among long-term claimants : 75 per cent of people aged 60 and over have been receiving Income Support for three years or more , compared with 40 per cent of those under 60 ; elderly people comprise 60 per cent of those receiving this benefit for five years or more . |
| 8 | In 1989 the proportion of pensioners who had been in receipt of income support for three years or more was nearly double that for younger adults ( 76 per cent as against 39 per cent ) ( DSS , 1991 , p. 44 ) . |
| 9 | WITH Britain 's economy just coming back to life , its car production rose by 7.7% last month to the highest March level for 19 years . |
| 10 | So anyone who wants to study competition , travel and world capitalism in the 1980s for a PhD programme in fifty years time had better take a good look now . |
| 11 | The Secretary of State has presided over the loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs in the defence industry in recent years . |
| 12 | The Kenyan picture , with 51% of the population under the age of 15 , is typical of a Third World country ; the fact that the Mauritius pyramid of 25 years ago was very similar to that of Kenya today demonstrates the rapidity with which a population structure can change . |
| 13 | Dorothy Mitchum , his wife since 1940 , tried to get him to move away from the West Coast after eight years of marriage , but he did n't want to leave so she and the children left him to go and live in New York . |
| 14 | In order to maintain a balance of interest in ‘ NG ’ we have started a new , regular column , ‘ UCN news ’ , with an article on the Physics department of 60 years ago . |
| 15 | The Socialist Party had not only suffered its worst election defeat in 25 years but also given every appearance of being in the process of disintegration . |
| 16 | WE SAID farewell recently to May Lennon , who retired as a supervisor in the purchase ledger department after 13 years with the company . |
| 17 | Concrete hulls , reinforced with glass-fibre rather than steel , have been used in boat building for many years . |
| 18 | LIZ BARGH Opportunity 2000 director , equal opportunities campaigner for 13 years . |
| 19 | After the Lords 's report was published , ministers decided to implement the 1975 Reservoirs Act , which had lain on the statute hook for eight years . |
| 20 | John played a leading part in the DTI 's support for the IT industry and research base for many years , and I know that he will be greatly missed by all involved . |
| 21 | She was confident that she could make her mark on the Rummidge Department in three years . |
| 22 | Many postgraduate students will have proceeded without interruption from their primary degrees ; many other participants are seeking career-enhancing or professional development qualifications by either full-time or part-time attendance after deferring the desire to seek postgraduate entry for some years . |
| 23 | He worked in the private sector of industry in the w d in the wool industry for many years when wool was the staple industry of . |
| 24 | The instrumental guitar album boom of recent years has seen few players survive with their credibility intact . |
| 25 | His father , Michael Joyce , had then been a United States citizen for twelve years . |
| 26 | In addition to playing a leading role in the movement for the restoration of these craft ( he was Honorary Secretary of the Galway Hooker Association for six years ) , he has taken his boat where no Hookers have ever sailed before . |
| 27 | She had lived with Edward Bear for ten years . |
| 28 | Fate of Nissen fundoplication after 20 years . |
| 29 | For women , money purchase schemes are problematic in that early contributions are likely to promote the best returns , yet younger women typically leave the labour force for several years and/or work part-time on motherhood . |
| 30 | He had exercised effective control of the labour force for ten years at the giant plant and had been able to bring the workers out on strike at the drop of a hat . |