Example sentences of "[adj] and [verb] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Work on the Chiltern Line , linking London with Banbury , Bicester and Aylesbury , began in 1903 and took 3 years to complete . |
| 2 | She joined Nationwide in 1972 and spent 12 years in the studio . |
| 3 | The hardwood forest trees in this picture were at least 100 feet tall and took 400 years to grow . |
| 4 | Phase 1 started in July 1980 and lasted 3 years , during which 2.5 million households were visited . |
| 5 | It was ordained that anyone hunting the deer in that forest without royal licence was to pay a fine and suffer three years imprisonment . |
| 6 | He was released in 1960 and rehabilitated three years later . |
| 7 | The penny farthing was an extremely difficult bicycle to ride , but Thomas Stevens left San Francisco on one in 1884 and returned two years later having ridden 13,500 miles round the world . |
| 8 | The disguise was good and added ten years to him . |
| 9 | He left home in 1873 and spent fourteen years as a cowboy and trail rider , with a spell of gold-mining in the Yukon in 1883–4 . |
| 10 | Replacement of wet by dry cooling towers would cost £10 billion and take 10 years — and dry systems depend on refrigeration using ozone-damaging CFC 's . |
| 11 | Following half-pay retirement in England , he embarked for India in 1817 and spent three years editing a Tory newspaper in Calcutta and acting as agent of a failed scheme to make the island of Saugor , at the mouth of the Hooghly river , an entrepôt and health resort , after ridding it of tigers ( hence his nickname ‘ Tiger ’ ) . |
| 12 | Born in Devon in 1954 , Andrew Mudge left school at the age of fifteen and did nine years ' service in the Navy before becoming Gardener for the Trust at Castle Drogo where he worked for seven years . |
| 13 | Sherwood 's timely expansion into lace and fashion 's latest accessory — stretch lace — with the acquisitons of Birkin in 1987 and Dentex two years later , makes it Europe 's largest lace maker . |
| 14 | Oliver Plunkett was an Irish Jesuit executed for treason on July 1 , 1681 and canonised five years ago . |
| 15 | She turned professional at 15 and spent 2 years on the tennis circuit and is now ranked in the top 5 in Britain . |
| 16 | It 's been a wonderful and rewarding 14 years generating an ever-widening circle of friends and customers , and I ca n't recall a refund . |
| 17 | As my hon. Friend the Member for Beaconsfield pointed out , the scheme is a major one , expected to cost about £60 million and to take four years to construct . |
| 18 | The scheme , expected to cost US$25,000 million and to take 25 years to complete , aimed to tap underground water resources 2,000 km away in south-eastern Libya to supply the more populous coastal regions . |
| 19 | joined the company in 1945 and served 28 years service before retiring in 1973 and 65 years of age . |
| 20 | The design used got started in 1988 and took five years to get a full multi-processor in such a small package . |
| 21 | The Royal Commission on Local Government , under the chairmanship of Lord Redcliffe-Maud , was appointed in 1967 and reported two years later . |