Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [adj] years [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but Pete if he , I mean I do n't see why he does n't if he went private for two years he 'd make enough to retire , in two years , no sweat , he wo n't have to work again , I mean I bet his house is paid for |
| 2 | You also told me that for eleven years you were national coach and team manager to the United Arab Emirates . |
| 3 | I suppose one of the things I use to demonstrate it most clearly is that for many years I s I gave lectures on communications and one of the things I used to say in those lectures was I did not know , and I was stressing that sense what came first if newspapers write stories in a particular way , because that is what the public wanted or do public want a particular type of story and that 's that newspapers round-up and I stopped posing that question when Rupert Murdoch bought the Melbourne Sun because Rupert Murdoch bought the Melbourne Sun and introduced a lot of sex-type stories you know stories about brothels and madames whipping people and goodness knows what else and the sales rocketed and there we had almost a captive example of change in the design of change in the type of stories that were written and people , people were buying it and so you have an issue of you know that your content was actually being by what your readership wanted . |
| 4 | Indeed , the implication of his resignation letter was that for five years there had been conflict at the very heart of the government that had precipitated the earlier resignations of Heseltine , Lawson and , in July 1990 , Nicholas Ridley , the Trade and industry Secretary ( the last after he had expressed intemperate views about Britain 's European partners that many observers believed the Prime Minister herself shared ) . |
| 5 | Does my right hon. Friend agree , however , that for 20 years he and his predecessors have pursued the will-of-the-wisp of power-sharing , devolved government ; and that , for as long as it is pursued , the IRA will believe , rightly or wrongly , that it will get us out in the end ? |
| 6 | The Catch 22 problem was that for several years there had been few big headlines about fusion as no dramatic breakthroughs had been occurring . |
| 7 | And on 15 May , the morning of the Maurice debate , he recorded : ‘ We proceeded thus : S.B. — ’ You know , PM , that for ten years we have been trying to catch you deviating by an inch from the strict path of veracity and pin you down . |
| 8 | Will the Secretary of State acknowledge that , given that after five years his Government have completely failed to establish a Select Committee on Scottish Affairs , he has no credibility in the constitutional debate in Scotland because he has no proposals to make ? |
| 9 | For each of these years our members have enjoyed the good value offered by Homecover in price and cover . |
| 10 | The consensus is that although conditions at flowering were similar to those years which triggered the Moulin saga , a repeat with any particular variety this season is unlikely . |
| 11 | BUCKING THE SYSTEM Lindsey Buckingham It 's been four years since Lindsey Buckingham left Fleetwood Mac , and for the last three of those years he 's been writing , performing and working to complete his new solo album ‘ Out Of The Cradle ’ . |
| 12 | These past five years my pernicious enfeeblement has meant that six months of the year I have had to hibernate , to entomb myself in the disused redoubt beneath Cliff Top , but at last I am free . |
| 13 | These past three years he had grown sullen and morose , keeping himself at a distance , always watching her , silently blaming her for Maisie 's tragic death . |
| 14 | ‘ Naturally these past few years it has n't been worn . |
| 15 | His objective was for AR production to be 25 per cent of Scottish Amicable new business in three to four years which means an effective doubling of AR production in that period . |
| 16 | ‘ We always wanted to sponsor a guide dog and by the time you 've been married for 50 years you 've got everything you need and there 's no point in getting presents you do n't really need , ’ said Mr Lea . |
| 17 | In the next 5 to 10 years it 'll come through strong . |
| 18 | My guess is that , with a few exceptions , it wo n't but that in four years we 'll have another Mogg-Davidson book claiming that they got it right all along . |
| 19 | That in ten years she should have risen from a frightened , defiant seventeen-year-old to this . |
| 20 | Not to exaggerate the cat 's breeding abilities , it must be recorded that from the age of eight until twelve years there is a gradual decline in the number of kittens produced in each litter , so the reproductive apparatus is beginning to show signs of slowing down at this stage , and only the strongest and healthiest of moggies can stay the full course . |
| 21 | • Czechoslovakian studies show that children aged 6 to 14 years who reside near an aluminium smelter ingest more than 2 milligrams fluoride a day from air , water , animal foodstuffs and plants although their drinking water was not fluoridated . |
| 22 | Thus although a marked increase is apparent in recent years it may prove to be due entirely to three freak movements . |
| 23 | Sometime in the next two to five years they would expect to get together and do what they did with Concorde . |
| 24 | ‘ We are very grateful for the donations we receive from charitable organisations like BLISS , but in the last two to three years there has been an additional £800,000 investment in special baby care units from Mersey region . ’ |
| 25 | There was one wonderful story of a little Pakistani girl of some four to five years who accidentally wandered on to the edge of the Abu Dhabi-Dubai road . |
| 26 | Spain and Portugal stressed during the proceedings their willingness to continue to act as bridges for Latin American access to the European Communities ; the Spanish government also announced that during the next four to five years it would invest over US$14,000 million in the Latin American region . |
| 27 | For four to five years he was in Paris and Rouen , with occasional visits to Italy . |
| 28 | and they ploughed twenty five million into their mines and said your jobs are guaranteed now fore , forget it you know , you 're alright for thirty years what . |
| 29 | But she never suspecting it was , you know , when they 'd been alright for seven years you |
| 30 | and that 's what I 'm gon na be aiming to do , if it , if I break even in two years I 'd be happy cos I 've made money back and then I 'll be making profit after that , and you wo n't make it back in the first year , no way |