Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [adj] [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Although half the members of the upper house were due for re-election in mid-1992 , elections in the lower house were not due for another two years . ) |
| 2 | He named it Latimeria and informed an astonished world that a creature thought to have been extinct for 70 million years was still alive . |
| 3 | Now Mummy 's had that for twenty five years , now just leave it . |
| 4 | They 've done this for that three years now and they |
| 5 | Theologians have been arguing this for two thousand years … ’ |
| 6 | I 've been doing this for twenty five years so the best deal I 've ever done is the sale I make each week which brings me three hundred quidHe later went onto spend over five hundred pounds on a Mickey Mouse Toy . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Some other cellular event was involved , but its nature remained obscure and unexplained for another 30 years . |
| 9 | Yes oh yes another about another six years probably but we had to come back to educate the kids . |
| 10 | The room he was looking into was stripped of all furniture and decoration ; if anybody had occupied this house since Sartori 's time — and it surely had n't stood empty for two hundred years — they had gone , taking every trace of their presence . |
| 11 | The total fertility rate in the 1930s was reduced to 1.7 in 1933 from 2.4 ten years earlier ( a 28 per cent reduction ) and from 2.8 twenty years earlier ( a 39 per cent reduction ) . |
| 12 | This kind of coordination between constituent cells in a colony was taken a stage further , probably between 800 to 1000 million years ago — some time in October in our calendar — when sponges appeared . |
| 13 | In our squadron was a man I call an elderly because at the time he was about forty to forty five years old and we were all a bunch of kids . |
| 14 | For each of these eleven years our members have enjoyed the good value offered by Autocover in price and cover . |
| 15 | The first defendant had known the deceased for some seven years and said in evidence that for the 3 or 3½ years before the deceased 's death he had been looking after the deceased . |
| 16 | Autee Lord Justice had this to say at page nine two seven quote , having decided that he , brackets the judge close brackets , could make no allowance for the possibility of increased pension payments because of the increased cost of living index , he had to decide the present day value of the fixed sum payable in thirty one years time . |
| 17 | Six to seven thousand years ago a warm spell , the ‘ climatic optimum ’ , brought southern European forests to Britain and dispersed ice from the Arctic Ocean . |
| 18 | The Movement increased its membership from 5,000 in 1929 to 40,000 two years later at a time when the Communist Party was at its lowest ebb . |
| 19 | The conventional palaeontological view was , until recently , of an age of 10 to 15 million years , whereas molecular data suggested a time of divergence of not more than 5 million years ago . |
| 20 | Indeed , only 29 per cent of farmers had actually altered field boundaries between 1949 and 1 978 , and only one-third had reclaimed moorland in the last 7 to 1 5 years , and so the picture that emerges is one of a more dynamic profit-motivated minority replacing a more conservation and landscape-orientated majority where still 56 per cent of farmers are over 50 . |
| 21 | I felt after working hard for twenty seven years I felt it was a shame . |
| 22 | You could store these for another two years mum . |
| 23 | After this time , Nuclear Electric plans to erect huge containment buildings over entire reactor sites , leaving these for another 100 years before demolition . |
| 24 | The assumption is that methane in the air bubbles trapped in ice remains unchanged for 30 000 years , and this may be incorrect . |
| 25 | In Australia , for example , there is no doubt that the Aboriginal people have done much to encourage grassland these past 40 000 years , by their use of fires , which they light to encourage new growth and attract animals for hunting . |
| 26 | But it may be that the things they have been through these past few hundred years have exaggerated some of their original characteristics . |
| 27 | Available UK coal stocks may last another three to four hundred years , North Sea gas used at current levels another 30 years , and we have already used over 40 per cent of North Sea oil . |
| 28 | The field-pattern we see is three to four hundred years old . |
| 29 | There were other polled cattle in Ireland throughout the ages : the ‘ maol ’ ( hornless ) types are referred to in traditional cattle-raiding stories which in some cases can be traced back to the fourth century , and remains of polled cattle have been found ( along with small , horned Kerry types ) at archaeological sites dating back three to four thousand years . |
| 30 | This is undoubtedly what the original domestic cats looked like and wall paintings confirm that three to four thousand years ago the Egyptian cats had light or broken stripes . |