Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] four years " in BNC.
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| 1 | This group had already trekked from Pochala on the Ethiopian border ; some of the boys had been living a transitory existence for four years . |
| 2 | The mothers talking in this book are mainly in their mid to late teens , with children whose ages range from a few months to four years . |
| 3 | President Roosevelt was re-elected in the United States of America , in November 1940 , for a further term of four years , so the ‘ lend-lease ’ arrangements were then undertaken to enable Britain to receive much needed supplies . |
| 4 | I 've been fighting this battle for four years and we 've eventually got there . |
| 5 | It was as if she had been waiting for this moment for four years or more . |
| 6 | The Avery prize paid for a free place for four years at Redmond College , one of the best colleges in Canada . |
| 7 | She 'd lived in the apartment in the fashionable Latin Quarter for four years , with her wealthy American boyfriend , Richard Knorr . |
| 8 | On Dec. 14 Sergei Parfyonov , the former deputy commander in Riga of the Soviet Interior Ministry troops , the OMON , was sentenced by a Latvian court to four years ' imprisonment in a corrective labour camp for " exceeding his authority " during events in Riga in January 1991 [ see p. 37945 ] . |
| 9 | Foreman 's opponent in 1974 , Muhammad Ali , is the other important articulator of protest , and his dominance over other heavyweights for a period of fourteen years was so complete that he was impossible to suppress , even though his enforced incapacitation for four years did seem to dull his sharpness in criticizing white racism . |
| 10 | They remained as members of that Hall for four years , taking no public examinations , and being taught predominantly but not exclusively by teachers attached to the Hall . |
| 11 | . Very unusually for anybody to stay in that work for four years . |
| 12 | ‘ Philip has n't written a real play for four years , ’ Maud said , looking round for the waiter . |
| 13 | But companies can stop giving at any time ; under the traditional system of covenants , they were committed to giving an annual donation for four years . |
| 14 | It fell in July from 3.9 to 3.7 per cent — the lowest level for four years . |
| 15 | Cases are taking 16 months or more , with a backlog of 60,000 , and this must be rectified , especially as , we have been told , the number of applications has increased by 10 times in four years — from 5,000 in 1988 to 50,000 this year . |
| 16 | Sit in comfort For ages six months to four years , this reclining car seat has been approved by the Civil Aviation Authority for use in aircraft when fitted with a lap belt |
| 17 | Mutiny by the men , and what could a Petty Officer do if the Ministry in Moscow determined that the sailors of the Storozhevoy should not be freed from their conscripted service after four years at sea , that they should serve another year , what could a Petty Officer to ? |
| 18 | The Ellis Park row had plunged the future of the Wallaby tour into grave doubt and for French it signalled the possible heartbreaking end to four years of endless and dedicated hard work to have rugby sanctions against South Africa lifted . |
| 19 | Kevin Tamati 's Red Devils hosted and won the Salford Sevens for the second time in four years at The Willows yesterday . |
| 20 | The very need to do this — for the second time in four years — testifies to a certain degree of insecurity within the minds of the Soviet leaders that their recent gains in terms of strategic power could easily be snatched from them . |
| 21 | NATALIE HUNTER , 27 , has been unemployed since December after working as a graphic designer for four years . |
| 22 | The company does not have a sparkling financial story to tell — it lost £1.7m pre-tax on turnover of £12.5m in the year to September 30 , and its only profitable period in four years was the nine months to September 1991 , when it did £684,000 pre-tax on sales of £9.6m . |
| 23 | Plans to swap 10% or so of its shares with Germany 's Dresdner Bank , touted as the most ambitious cross-border linkage of its kind , have been awaiting approval from the European Community for four years . |
| 24 | It was a bitter blow for Allcock , Britain 's outstanding bowler in the past decade , for he has now reached this final three times in four years , only to finish runner-up in each . |
| 25 | February 's inflation rate showed a 2.3 per cent monthly increase ( the biggest monthly rise for four years ) , representing an annualized rate for early 1990 of just over 13 per cent , substantially above the budget target . |
| 26 | He said : ‘ All I know is that we 've signed him on a playing contract for four years and we 're delighted to have him back . |
| 27 | what the what the pay is now here is what I was earning three years to four years ago |
| 28 | and one woman said that the year , nineteen twenty one she was a bride of eighteen years old and she took Good Housekeeping and she 's got the whole lot although she 's now a very old lady , and she said my first lot of housekeeping was done in a house in Wales where we had water from the well we had to build the fires up by hand we could get Welsh coal cheaply but they had to you know use paper and kindle and we swept with brooms and my life has never been easier she said I had three children in four years and my life has never been easier she said and all these modern things came in life has got more and more complicated and difficult ! |
| 29 | However , this week Dallas are going into week two with one of their worst starts in four years . |
| 30 | They were infected by the ideas of the Enlightenment and were ready to welcome the Napoleonic soldiers and administrators who incorporated the Slovene lands into the Illyrian Provinces in 1809 for a brief , but fateful sojourn of four years . |