Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adj] years [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was alleged that he received payment for two years advertising , but only one year 's space was booked . |
| 2 | Note : The said sum of £240 is made up of £180 allowed from arrears of rent charge down to 24th October 1895 , and £60 for two years arrears at £30 per annum down to 24th October 1897 . |
| 3 | BARRY Johnson , Barlaston Jasper department , receives his long service award for 25 years service from production director Roy Naylor . |
| 4 | Ronald Bateman and James William Kelly , who both still serve as committeemen , are to receive the CIU 's long service award for 25 years work with the club . |
| 5 | — CIU Honours Alan Frank , committeeman at Shotton Colliery WMC ( the Palms ) received the long service certificate and badge for 25 years service to the club and Ralph Kipling , vice-chairman at Cockfield Social Club for more than 17 years , was presented with the long service award by Durham CIU branch secretary Jack Amos . |
| 6 | Driver , was presented with a carriage clock after 22 years with the firm and driver/yardman was presented with a wrist watch after 24 years service . |
| 7 | FRED LANSDOWN has retired from P&O Cruises after 43 years service . |
| 8 | Mike takes the editor 's chair from Allan Olleveant who has retired from ICI after 41 years service . |
| 9 | RAF farewell : Warrant Officer Eric Day of Catterick RAF Station , who is retiring as Royal Air Force liaison officer with the Durham Region of the Royal Air Forces Association after five years service , was presented with an inscribed tankard at the region 's monthly meeting at Hartlepool . |
| 10 | TL dates of three burnt flints have been measured at the British Museum , and these straddle a mean of 190.000 years BP , but there is a large variation about this mean because of the inhomogeneity of the radiation environment in the cave outlined above . |
| 11 | There was a mean of 50 years age difference between the 22 young subjects and the 28 old subjects studied . |
| 12 | He 'll be putting the disappointment of this years boat race behind him to lead the challenge next year . |
| 13 | The report is the result of four years study by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis ( IIASA ) , a non-governmental organisation funded by scientific organisations in the east and west . |
| 14 | The new PVC recycling process is the result of five years research . |
| 15 | Anchorlite Slate is the result of 10 years research and development to produce a replacement for natural slate that is virtually indistinguishable both in weight and visual appeal . |
| 16 | It was not a glib doctrinal position simple culled from the inherited opinions of her own Christian forbears , but the result of many years study and patient listening to all that the African students and officers could teach . |
| 17 | In addition he served with great distinction in the Edinburgh Eye Infirmary and , having reached the statutory rule of fifteen years service , ‘ retired ’ from the Royal Infirmary to become the first surgeon to the Royal Hospital for Sick Children . |
| 18 | Given the long dormancy of the virus , some people now in monogamous relationships of several years standing could have become HIV positive before they met their present partner , and be completely unaware of this fact . |
| 19 | All female staff aged 20 years or more , subject to the completion of one years service , are eligible to join the BUPA Well Woman Scheme . |
| 20 | A term of x years imprisonment to be served and y years suspended might be imposed , when previously x would have been thought sufficient . |
| 21 | One year ago he was sentenced to a term of fifteen years imprisonment . |
| 22 | Liz Watt , cashier clerkess at Grampian TV in Aberdeen , was recently presented with gifts from CCG and Grampian in recognition of 20 years service at the television station . |
| 23 | Paul Traynor is a freelance journalist with 25 years experience of walking and backpacking at home and abroad |
| 24 | He told Alf Minns , 64 , a chargehand at CSE and the company 's longest-serving employee with 50 years service , he was hopeful that the contract would come to Darlington . |
| 25 | According to Mark Doran , UI 's technical project manager , ALT wo n't be a full object-oriented specification and is only intended as a stopgap definition until the OMG delivers object linking and embedding guidelines in two years time . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Please let my team beat the scum at the pigstye on New Years day , especially with a goal in the last 20 seconds . |
| 28 | Tantrums are common in the 18 months to 3 years age range but regular occurrence in a 5-year-old would be cause for concern . |
| 29 | Going on to the inter-war years the authors note that there was no great reduction in the number of incidents reported in the press , despite the reputation of the large crowds of those years fur generally good behaviour . |
| 30 | In the course of two years North developed his own slide show , part accurate , part exaggeration , part emotion , and this representation was the bedrock of the domestic campaign for the contras : the world in 57 pictures of blurry military bases and Communist commandantes , utterly simple in its division between good and bad , and curiously believable . |