Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [prep] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The latest published figures for Lloyd 's show £575m ( $950m ) of pre-tax profit in 1987 ( Lloyd 's syndicates close their accounts only after three years ) , down slightly on the record profits of 1986 . |
| 2 | Despite an approaching typhoon which ordinarily would have left the streets deserted , the march attracted 40,000 people - the largest political demonstration locally for 20 years . |
| 3 | It led to a dialogue with Montefiore , with my telling him about my friend who has had AIDS now for six years and who , thanks to AZT , is still alive . |
| 4 | The couple , who divorced four months ago after 16 years of marriage , just ‘ could n't live apart ’ . |
| 5 | You might have thought almost no one would back the successor to an organisation that collapsed in disgrace only months ago after 40 years of misrule . |
| 6 | But yeah , I mean , there was so so many inconsistencies on , on the Irish witness side , you know , like what , what matey said I was , I was running out and all of a sudden I felt a pain from here on those fuck it , he 's up there , got big forearms , and big sort of muscle that size , that 's really wasted this side even after twenty years , it must of about and apparently one matey got shot in the back running away , oh no five out of the thirteen got shot in the back , which again does n't fucking mean any thing , you know that 's , but I said if there 's I R A supporters there and that , you telling me you seen where your comrades have fucking get shot , you 're not , you 're not gon na try and pick up his weapon and stuff I mean like , it was just a perfect opportunity to , to get one over on the British Forces and I , I said I do n't think yet the para 's were entirely blameless , but then again I do n't think they ever have been in any of their fucking |
| 7 | The 11 tourists , with a lot of help from the four friends who made up last night 's team , gave an astounding display to inflict on France their first defeat here for seven years . |
| 8 | The medical reports before me deal fully with those years . |
| 9 | On the debit side we have dropped one day on the calving interval to 376 days , although not a disaster we had been trying to improve that but our heifers are calving at 28 months instead of two years three months . |
| 10 | They can put figures down er you know writing things off erm whatsit twenty percent per year for a machine right in five years ' time that machine is scrap . |
| 11 | THE Jordanian Prime Minister , Mr Mudar Badran , wooing the newly elected parliament , lifted martial law yesterday after 22 years and promised to fight corruption . |
| 12 | lead Couple get their dream home after 42 years |
| 13 | Malcolm 's oldest son ( by his first wife ) , Duncan , had lived in England probably for twenty years , and was associated with Anglo-Norman culture ; there was almost certainly a reaction also against Margaret ( who died within a week ) , her sons , whom Donald exiled , and English immigrants . |
| 14 | Moreover , it has already been argued ( in Chapter 1 ) that there was a combination of influences at work internationally during those years which was conducive to rapid expansion , some of which arose directly from the war . |
| 15 | Supervision on the principle of ‘ freedom with disclosure ’ , supported by a strong actuarial profession in Government , in insurance companies and in consultancy , has served British companies well for many years . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's the coldest winter there for fifty years . ’ |
| 17 | The Royal Logistic Corps is transporting the aid in convoys in the worst winter there for fifty years . |
| 18 | started work there at 14 years of age . |
| 19 | That sort of experience binds boy and rod together , and I used my old greenheart happily for many years to come ; but in time , the top section broke , then the middle section , and eventually , I had the rod redesigned . |
| 20 | Spencer Ell , who had done the audit nobly for many years , died the same year , leaving the Club a generous legacy which funded the building of the present Professional 's shop and the Secretary 's office adjoining . |
| 21 | But erm er I I I I really feel very strongly about this that we all know that democracy does n't just consist of electing a a national parliament once in five years , we all know the strength of democracy comprises that where the complex of local institutions of local bodies made up of people serving in different ways , not necessarily elected , that is what comprises democracy and it is that which is being undermined again by this measure in this in this Bill and I do say to Your Lordships that for the reasons given by both my Noble Friends er Lord and by , by the Noble Lord , Lord Lord er that there has been no demand for this |
| 22 | Again I think if Freud and Bullitt were here today , they 'd say , well look we did , in fact , have quite a lot of data , because I , Bullitt knew Wilson intimately for several years and worked with him , and er , Freud had rarely the stuff in erm , in all papers of Woodrow Wilson in the library of Congress or wherever they were , and he had a great deal of data . |
| 23 | She was also handling an interesting portfolio including two public companies , one of which was a small USM quoted property investment company , Capital and Regional Properties , run by Martin Barber , Xavier Pullen and Roger Boy-land , all of whom had been in the property business together for 20 years . |
| 24 | His wife was the chairman of a health authority and she performed that job excellently for many years . |
| 25 | Old age can cover a period often of 30–35 years or more : those just entering their retirement will be a generation younger than some of the oldest citizens . |
| 26 | Dave Speed , of New Town Road , Colchester , who was made redundant by printers Spottiswoode six weeks ago after 19 years with the firm , said last night : ‘ It was certainly not a Budget for jobs which is what I , and others , were hoping for . ’ |
| 27 | He shared ( with Ken Roberts of Wrexham ) the distinction of being the youngest Football League player when he appeared for Bradford Park Avenue against Millwall 60 years ago aged 15 years , 158 days . |
| 28 | Mr Byrne joined the order six years ago after 32 years in the Green Howards . |
| 29 | The Parkes family was in residence here for many years in the 18th Century . |
| 30 | He 's been head teacher here for seven years and has seen it get some of the best exam results in the country . |