Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [art] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | 341 companies changed their auditor during the four years the study covers ; 60% of these involved a change of tier . |
| 2 | I remember I was once experimenting with a gauze — it had been in La Scala for a hundred years and was full of dust . |
| 3 | This system was formalised in the year 802 , although it had been operational in early forms during the preceding years of his reign . |
| 4 | The auditors of the Company Ernst & Young , Chartered Accountants and Registered Auditors , of Becket House have made a report under what is now Section 235 of the Companies Act 1985 on each set of statutory consolidated accounts for the five years ended 31 December 1991 . |
| 5 | Students taking a single subject degree course , study their degree subject throughout all four years and study other supporting subjects in addition during the earlier years . |
| 6 | ‘ I would also like to thank Renault , Elf and the team 's sponsors for their support during the two years I have worked with them . |
| 7 | A source of constant support during the lean years was his wife Margaret Plant , known as Meg , whom he married in 1960 . |
| 8 | Payments terminated on 31 May 1753 , but evidently no ill feeling marred the end of Miller 's contract as a few years later he dedicated to the Duke the beautiful Figures of Plants ( 2 vols. ) which had been published in parts from 1755–60 . |
| 9 | Encouraged by the long minority of the new Stadtholder it helped to influence Dutch policy in a pro-French and anti-British direction during the Seven Years War ( the Orange family , now closely associated by marriage with that of Hanover , was generally pro-British in outlook ) . |
| 10 | Increasing numbers of women went to cheap matinees at the cinema during the inter-war years , where 70 per cent of the weekly audiences in London comprised women and girls , and by 1939 the number of wirelesses had increased from 200,000 in 1923 to over 8.5 million . |
| 11 | The major areas of increased provision during the four years are illustrated in Figure 7.2 . |
| 12 | Mussolini harangued his people long and often , peppering his speeches with slogans like ‘ it is better to be a lion for a year than a sheep for a hundred years ’ . |
| 13 | that there have n't been any forces of change for a thousand years . |
| 14 | ‘ After the Smiths I had been playing the guitar for a few years and I was listening to things like Aztec Camera and Orange Juice . |
| 15 | The churches should seek to discover the community trends and local authority plans for the coming years . |
| 16 | The assessment of the vendor 's ability to pay will depend on the current financial status of the vendor and its plans for the coming years including its use of the sale proceeds . |
| 17 | The Forestry Commission has announced its spending plans for the three years 1992/93 — 1994/95 . |
| 18 | Three years later , during the carnival of 1645 , John Evelyn saw Ercole in Lidia by Monteverdi 's pupil and successor at St. Mark 's , Giovanni Rovetta ( C. 1596–1668 ) , at the Teatro Novissimo , with ‘ variety of sceanes painted and contrived with no lesse art of perspective , and machines for flying in the aire , and other wonderfull motions … one of the most magnificent and expensive diversions the wit of man can invent ’ ; and the San Cassiano had a chorus for a few years . |
| 19 | An assizes court in Paris on June 15 , 1990 , sentenced Rolf Dobbertin , a German-born nuclear physicist who had worked for the French National Council for Scientific Research ( CNRS ) , to 12 years ' imprisonment for espionage for East Germany during the 10 years to January 1979 [ see p. 29786 for his arrest in 1979 and p. 33867 for his release in 1983 ] . |
| 20 | But he also showed a striking interest in international developments , particularly the progress of the Protestant cause in France and Germany during the Thirty Years ' War . |
| 21 | He served with both Horse and Foot in Germany during the Seven Years ' War , an experience to which he often subsequently referred . |
| 22 | Roy 's performances earned him a deserved reputation as a neat and clever footballer and he came to be regarded by press and public alike as one of Palace 's most consistent performers during the six years he was on our staff . |
| 23 | Now actually Mill did put the his erm this proposal forward , he was a member of parliament for a few years and he was trying to get this discussed in parliament . |
| 24 | I rang the bells for the different years to come to the hall . |
| 25 | His cottages at Blaize Hamlet blazed a trail for a hundred years . |
| 26 | The responsibilities of the two departments were to be as follows : the education authorities who operated a service under the 1910 Act had to confine themselves to ‘ interviewing , advising , registering and selecting juvenile applicants ’ , while the labour exchanges would ‘ register vacancies , place juveniles with employers and oversee their progress during the early years of employment ’ . |
| 27 | These stress the importance of family relationships and upbringing during the early years , and conclude that anti-social , and by implication criminal , behaviour results from faulty personality development . |
| 28 | : Ma for a few years and recently we 've reassessed the doses and also we 've reassessed the risks so those two things together have caused us to express our concern and to advise the government what to do about it . |
| 29 | TESL was run as an alternative methods course for a few years , until TEFL/TESL became a combined methods course in 1986 . |
| 30 | I think my father used to work in a university for a few years after he graduated , and he might have invented something ; he occasionally hints that he gets some sort of royalty from a patent or something , but I suspect the old hippy survives on whatever family wealth the Cauldhames still have secreted away . |