Example sentences of "[adj] year [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The age of presentation is earliest in the 3rd generation with one presentation ( case 3 ) at 22 years and a second ( case 4 ) with a history suggesting the presence of a polyp at the age of either 16 or 23 years . |
| 2 | The first signs of a problem surrounding the ‘ enfant terrible ’ , who joined Leeds for £900,000 from Nimes earlier this year after a career marred by disciplinary problems , arose early last month . |
| 3 | The fourth centenary of the birth of the great seventeenth-century printmaker and draughtsman Jacques Callot was celebrated in his home town of Nancy earlier this year while a selection of his prints was also shown at the National Gallery of Washington . |
| 4 | The month-old ‘ final offensive ’ has been most successful this year because a split that erupted last August among rebel ranks has not yet been patched up in the face of Khartoum 's assaults . |
| 5 | GERMANY 'S recession appears to be deepening according to a report published yesterday which was forced to halve predictions of 2 p.c. growth this year because an increase in exports has failed to materialise . |
| 6 | Sean Curtis , TSB Head of Marketing , states : ‘ We had entered into negotiations with Mark McCormack 's IMG company in February of this year and a couple of months later everything was finalised . |
| 7 | Apple expects to sell its one millionth PowerBook portable computer sometime this year and a PowerBook model with an electronic stylus is set for later this year . |
| 8 | Three children have died on Cheshire 's roads so far this year and a total of almost 400 injured . |
| 9 | According to Mr Ashworth ‘ it 's quite possible that we shall see both higher lamb prices this year and an increase in the Sheep Annual Premium . ’ |
| 10 | The investigators knew that within an hour or so of their arrival at the accident site , but they had to work for another year and a half to find out why : |
| 11 | The Russian ambassador in Kiev has described Ukrainian independence to other diplomats there as a temporary phenomenon , unlikely to last more than another year and a half . |
| 12 | But they took me away after that awful morning and did n't send me back to Byron House for another year and a half . |
| 13 | But er the these production investment activities are associated really with production engineering , er very closely aligned with development and erm unless you can do those between now and the end of nineteen ninety five , when we start the P I phase in nineteen ninety six before you can really make any progress you would then have to do a further year and a half of production engineering so in the new quotations Eurofighter are making a case for what they term a development assurance phase , some advance production engineering work starting later this year and going on until the end of ninety five but when we start P I in ninety six , we can start with a bang and make fast progress . |
| 14 | It would be another six years before a Virgin office would open in America again . |
| 15 | After only eighteen months breathing the dust of the docks , Ramsey taught for six years and a half in a greenhouse . |
| 16 | ‘ The wettest August in six years and a record for rain in September have not diminished the chances of the finest crop to date . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Staff numbers had doubled over the previous five to six years and a programme of change had been thrust upon us by the market , ’ explained . |
| 18 | If they did , it will be at least 10 years before a cure is developed . |
| 19 | This compares with actuarial figures of expectation of life of 45 years and an expectation of working life of 37 years . |
| 20 | Following an accident in the 1938 race , however , the Mille Miglia was banned in Italy the following year and a race purporting to be the Mille Miglia was held between Tobruk and Tripoli in north Africa and won by Ercole Boratto ( Ita ) , a former chauffeur of Mussolini . |
| 21 | All foreign branches seem to have been closed for financial reasons in 1891–1892 , but Wilson , after the refloating of the union in 1894 , persisted in his international endeavours , establishing new branches in Hamburg , Rotterdam and Antwerp in the following year and an agency in New York , and accepting the logic of the shipowners ' often repeated argument that British claims to higher pay would be more convincing if foreign rates were brought up to British levels . |
| 22 | In 1958 , fifty years after A Room with a View was first published , Forster added an appendix to it in which he described the fate of his characters after the First World War was ended : |
| 23 | ‘ It can take two to three years before an agent is in a position to provide accurate intelligence on ops and the movements of his colleagues , bombs and weapons . ’ |
| 24 | However , record contracts tend to last longer than management agreements ( a management agreement might last for three years while a record contract may go on as long as ten ) . |
| 25 | Indeed if the three years and a day expire on a Saturday or a Sunday or a bank holiday , when one can not issue a writ , the limitation period is extended until the next day on which one can ( Pritam Kaur v S Russell & Sons Ltd [ 1973 ] QB 336 ) . |
| 26 | The package , originally proposed on Oct. 26 , included a reduction in government spending of 15,000 million kronor ( US$2,650 million ) over three years and a reduction of 18,000 civil service jobs , or 10 per cent of the total , over the same period . |
| 27 | In the vision of the Four Beasts in chapter 7 , Antiochus " changes the seasons and the law " and his rule will last " a time and times and half a time " ( 7.25 ) : perhaps three years and a half . |
| 28 | Finally , the time of persecution is stated again to be " a time , times and half a time " ( 12.7 ) , that is three years and a half , in the vision of the two angels which concludes the book . |
| 29 | Chris Wells , above , of Project Office Furniture , said Mr Lamont 's tax planning over the next three years and a resolution to reduce public borrowing should settle business nerves . |
| 30 | It is ridiculous that people wait up to three years until a decision is reached . |