Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | In order to keep the island he would have to raise the money and complete building within five years . |
| 2 | The rethinking of culture in the light of theoretical advances and political experience over recent years undermines the claims and comforts of community understood in terms of a normative identity and tradition , whether that of nation , religion , ethnicity or ‘ the black experience ’ . |
| 3 | The offence under s.47 is relatively serious , carrying a possible sentence of five years . |
| 4 | It remained there in its watery grave for 44 years , until it was raised from the Loch and brought to Brooklands in 1985 . |
| 5 | The low birthrate of recent years means that , by the end of the decade , much of the world 's work will be done by women . |
| 6 | The Chinese have maintained a stable agriculture for 4,000 years and feed more than four times as many people per acre as we do . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd been growing that beard for 10 years and had grown quite accustomed to it , ’ says the now clean shaven Chris . |
| 8 | SIR — A 37-year-old man , who had been on total parenteral nutrition for 2½ years after excision of his small bowel for a mesenteric desmoid tumour , found this regimen unacceptable and sought a small bowel allograft . |
| 9 | Before his reorganisation began , " Kitty " Laidlaw , who had been Allan Hayhurst 's right-hand support for twenty-nine years and had latterly served the BDA in the capacity of administrative Secretary in the office at Carlisle , decided to retire . |
| 10 | The proposed EC directive calls for protection of the 10 most important sites for each designated habitat or species within four years , and the top 100 sites in each case within 10 years . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been out-machoing men and bedding women with that story for twenty years . ’ |
| 12 | I start from a position of very much respecting the fact that the hon. Member for Gateshead , East was a Member of the European Parliament for 10 years before becoming a Member of this House and I recognise the expertise that she has acquired in this subject . |
| 13 | I 've been a professional writer for 30 years now and I 've been slaughtered before so one can only bow ! ( laughs ) . |
| 14 | Although the aircraft was severely broken-up on impact , the remains of its compressed wreckage have been well preserved in Peaty silt for 51 years . |
| 15 | In a report to Wirral policy and resources committee finance director Ian Wood has identified a figure of £27.1m as the likely total write-off from three years of poll tax collection . |
| 16 | Tailors in 1814 were very much on a level in terms of real wages with 1795 , but in the intervening years had been significantly down on that level in eight years , and very seriously below it in 1800 and 1801 when their weekly wage would buy only half the quantity of bread it had purchased from 1777 to 1795 . |
| 17 | There was certainly ‘ no significant Soviet geopolitical momentum in recent years ’ . |
| 18 | By the early 1980s the combined effect of several years of high interest rates , tight centrally-imposed borrowing limits and progressive sharp falls in the level of revenue expenditure borne by block grant , were placing increasingly onerous burdens on ratepayers . |
| 19 | For the moment , high interest rates have eroded people 's economic confidence in the future but the trends in savings and consumer spending scarcely suggest a lack of economic buoyancy after seven years of real income growth . |
| 20 | He also served as Secretary of WACC 's African Regional Association for some years . |
| 21 | ‘ I have already been in this murderous rhythm for 10 years . ’ |
| 22 | Fulham will pay a low introductory rent for three years while they seek a partial redevelopment of the stadium . |
| 23 | Next month Mr Alan Oyston will take early retirement from his job as principal of Stockton and Billingham Technical College after 35 years in education . |
| 24 | In an experiment carried out at Palmer Station on the Antarctic Peninsula in 1989 , microscopic floating ocean plants ( phytoplankton ) were taken from the nearby bay and brought into the laboratory , where they were subjected to levels of ultra-violet radiation estimated to be equivalent to the amount of ultra-violet being transmitted through the ozone hole which has been developing in Antarctica each spring in recent years . |
| 25 | The Department of Energy estimates that 10 per cent of our electricity could come from hot dry rock in 125 years ' time . |
| 26 | I worked in that industry for 30 years . |
| 27 | Dr Paul Altmann of the Kidney Unit at the London Hospital in Whitechapel is reported as saying : ‘ It is when you are absorbing aluminium over many years that it is potentially damaging . |
| 28 | The ICI scheme is fairly flexible with a maximum possible break of five years . |
| 29 | Both breweries are now up-to-date and efficient plants , and it can be assumed that neither will require extensive re-investment for some years yet . |
| 30 | For instance , the Borough Surveyor wrote to ask for repairs to be made to the wall between the School and Greek Street : he was politely but firmly informed that the wall was not dangerous , " having been in that condition for twenty years " ! |