Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [adj] [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Government policy does not explain why the organized networks only covered certain areas , or why the illicit trade declined in Kurunagala at the end of the nineteenth century , but continued to thrive for another fifteen years in the Low Country before suffering a similar decline . |
| 2 | Our planet formed about 4.5–5 billion years ago . |
| 3 | Detailed profit and loss account for last three years |
| 4 | He lived for another four years while his empire lapsed into chaos . |
| 5 | Julian then made a full recovery and lived for another forty years . |
| 6 | Now for all those reasons madame speaker , this these orders er er today are inadequate , too little , too late , we ca n't vote against them , much as the the member who preceded me seemed inclined to vote against them and I wish that he had the g er the guts of 'is cu the courage of his convictions er he should vote against them , er we on this side are far more responsible er than that because to vote against them er might be an indication that we 're as much in frau in favour of fraud as members on the other side of the house , er we 're not in favour of fraud , we welcome any progress to detection of fraud , even progress that we asked for five eight years ago when the relevant legislation was passed . |
| 7 | Production is planned to continue for another two years . |
| 8 | In a report to councillors , he says that the trustees should have served notice on the county council last December if they wanted to exercise the option to continue for another 21 years at the nominal £1 a year rent for the village hall . |
| 9 | We argued for those seven years on the pitch , at half-time , and at the end of the game . |
| 10 | Halfway through 1979 the Ashleys finally moved into the main part of the château ; it was not completed for another two years and was to prove a far more major project than anyone had realized . |
| 11 | We are trying to populate a land which has been derelict for two thousand years with a people which has been scattered for two thousand years . |
| 12 | The vast and highly mechanized modern industry of printing , which can be found in every town and city in the kingdom , has been dispersed during five hundred years from this one spot which ought to be holy ground to the industrialist as well as the Christian . |
| 13 | Over the years , over coffee , lunch , drinks now and then , she found out more : yes to straight , yes to married , but divorced for some fifteen years . |
| 14 | Grayling reckons that he has about another two years of research to do before he can come up with a conclusive report . |
| 15 | The recognition and acceptance of the mysteries of mortality , earthly hubris , privilege and their futility were carried through two thousand years , as this epic was copied and repeated in different versions . |
| 16 | Tolkien had finished The Lord of the Rings by 1949 , though it was refused on his terms and did not begin to appear for another five years , on a non-royalty agreement — to be coolly received by reviewers at home and rapturously welcomed in that heartland of Anglo-Saxon romanticism , the United States of America . |
| 17 | His judgment was almost impeccable , and on the ground where he had been caught for 99 five years earlier ( by Gower , the only current survivor from that England side ) , he now stood tall among the innings ruins . |
| 18 | Four people , having served their community , have been confined for some seven years and now find that their right of appeal is being hindered by some legal technicality or misinterpretation of the law . |
| 19 | An energy source which could potentially supply up to ten times our energy needs for several thousand years is called an indefinitely sustainable energy source . |
| 20 | Er my Lord er the second observation I make about erm Mr opinion erm and the facts upon which it is based is that his opinion is hotly disputed er , not least because of what it would be submitted is the highly speculative nature of this enterprise er , when you are being asked to consider with the benefit of hindsight , whether or not a business entered into some eighty years ago , was likely to have failed and er it is also an exercise which in my submission is entirely irrelevant if your Lordship would find the basis of compensation which I contend for is the one because the logic of not having to become involved in any investigation of whether or not this business would probably have been unsuccessful in any event . |
| 21 | Maybe I can never convince you that I am other than a spirit , for what I have to tell you is this : that I have come from two hundred years in the future to speak to you — to sit here by this window and talk as we talk now ! ’ |
| 22 | Consequently , in spite of the fact that the net inflow of deposits in 1986–7 was quite small , the dollar value of the stock of deposits rose in those two years by nearly $2 billion to about $ 11.5 billion ( EP , 7 March 1988 ) . |
| 23 | The administrators Morton Thornton are now planning a complete restructuring of the company they are confident they can turn Carpenter 's around so that it will be trading in another hundred years . |
| 24 | He has at most two years before the next presidential election in which to try to put together a new centre left movement capable of carrying him into the president 's seat . |
| 25 | As an acquaintance put it , ‘ Richard would apply only if the university did something it has n't done for 500 hundred years — say it 's sorry . ’ |
| 26 | Handsomely painted in chocolate and cream , the buildings are ready to serve for another 130 years ! |
| 27 | If I save life on this planet , it will only be saved for ten thousand years . |
| 28 | The whale hunters from the Lofoten Islands , the heart of Norway 's whaling industry , are eager to put their point of view , saying that whales have been hunted for ten thousand years and are an integral part of the local diet . |
| 29 | It was among the first buildings in France to be listed as in need of help , even if none came for some fifteen years . |
| 30 | When the Turks finally overthrew the last of the Kotromanić rulers in 1463 , Vukšić continued to resist for another twenty years . |