Example sentences of "[adj] and [prep] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | In view of this and after many years of being in the movement and being active in the movement , I know when to quit when I 'm winning , so I move motion one six three . |
| 2 | Thus , a higher-rate taxpayer who invests £10,000 in autumn 1992 should receive an income tax refund of £4,000 around March 1993 and after five years , in October 1997 , should pocket £12,000 . |
| 3 | Juniper Green Tennis Club was formed in 1979 and for 11 years it has provided a valuable service to the local community in Juniper Green and Baberton Mains . |
| 4 | During 1991 and after 10 years of negotiations , the START treaty was signed , and in itself it is indeed only a start as it still leaves enormous stockpiles of delivery systems and nuclear warheads , enough to reduce most of our planet to a radioactive cinder heap . |
| 5 | The magazine is quarterly and in recent years has devoted each issue to a focused topic . |
| 6 | From then on his rise was rapid and within three years he had become the supreme influence at Edward 's court . |
| 7 | Sedgwick , born in Dent in 1785 and for many years Professor of Geology at Trinity College , Cambridge , and a friend of Wordsworth and Darwin , describes the galleries of Dent vividly and delightfully in his book , A Memorial To Cowgill Chapel 1868 : ‘ The galleries were places of mirth and glee and active happy industry for there might be heard the buzz of the spinning wheel and the hum and the songs of those who were carrying out the labours of the day . ’ |
| 8 | Dr McClure began school teaching in 1981 and within three years she became deputy headmistress at Kingswood School , Bath . |
| 9 | Promotion prospects are good and after 2 years ' training your salary should rise to £19,680 or more . |
| 10 | But during 1939–45 and for some years after the war , there was a marked change in judicial attitudes . |
| 11 | It was to the old mill that James Christie came from Kintyre , where he worked as a spinner in a lint mill , in 1873 and for ten years carded wool for the local women to spin , did a little weaving and some farming . |
| 12 | Systematic collections were made from peers and from the City ; by the outbreak of war the invested funds amounted to $671,000 — twice the sum in 1911 and worth four years " expenditure — and there was a special cash deposit of £120,000 for the coming election . |
| 13 | He sailed for Bombay in 1818 and in succeeding years travelled between Bombay and Canton , as supercargo on the Sarah , of which he was co-owner . |
| 14 | Peter , who was 44 , had joined Rentokil in 1966 and during 26 years with the company had worked in the laboratory , been appointed the youngest ever pest control surveyor in London and been seconded to the Bahamas where he and Lynn spent seven years . |
| 15 | Completing the professional trio is the first lady professional in the district — 22-year old Sally Rippon from Stinchcombe Hill who started playing at 16 and within three years was down to handicap 4 . |
| 16 | One further point : the actuarial profession is firmly egalitarian and for many years there have been equal opportunities for women . |
| 17 | ‘ Malc is my ex-husband , we were married when we were seventeen and after eighteen years were divorced to a chorus of ‘ I knew it would n't last ! ’ ‘ |
| 18 | Disorder was again evident in 1982 and in subsequent years , although on a reduced scale ( Benyon and Solomos , 1987 ) . |
| 19 | The third-class passengers on the Beira and Mashonaland railway travelled in this way in 1900 and for many years afterwards . |
| 20 | 0-6-0T locomotives in the Class USA had been an interesting addition to the British Railway scene at the end of World War Two and for some years during the steam era of British Railways . |
| 21 | My father died when I was quite young and at ten years of age I went into a poor old orphanage where I stayed four years . |
| 22 | The conductor was Mr. L. Lambert , who had started conducting with Croydon Corporation in 1919 and for many years had been their union representative . |
| 23 | He had received his political education in the household of Nur ed-Din , ruler of Syria from 1154 to 1174 and in those years the crusaders ' greatest enemy . |
| 24 | Hugh Gaitskell , an economics don and wartime civil servant who was elected to Parliament in 1945 and in six years rose from backbencher to Chancellor of the Exchequer , illustrates with his diary entry for 14 October 1947 ( when he was Minister of Fuel and Power ) just how little impact Attlee 's directive of a year before had had on the performance of individuals : |
| 25 | ‘ You look as old as one now ; and anyway , do n't be daft , woman , Susan 's only seven and in ten years ’ time you 'll be in a wheelchair . ’ |
| 26 | A qualified Keep Fit Teachers , she gained the Medau Teachers ' Award in 1968 and for many years was an active member of the Executive committee , serving as the Society 's first Vice-Chairman from 1977 to 1979 . |