Example sentences of "[adj] than [art] [num] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | An allowance period shorter than the four years mentioned by the right hon. Gentleman might have an immediate and useful effect . |
| 2 | An example is the trial currently underway to see whether breast cancer screening by mammography is better yearly than every three years . |
| 3 | It was reported that he had said the Government ‘ had fallen flat on its face in dealing with the situation ’ , adding that law and order did not exist in this country at the moment ; that there could be up to five million illegal immigrants in Britain ; and that judges should be able to impose the death sentence on anyone convicted of an offence carrying more than a fifteen year sentence . |
| 4 | This means that members in the Republic of Ireland who are over twenty five years of age and have more than a three year no claim bonus have had no increase in premium for over three years and for all other policyholder there has been no increase for over two years . |
| 5 | He says the tools of the trade have changed little in more than a 1,000 years . |
| 6 | It merits consideration , even though there is still keen advocacy for cash flow accounting , and even though there are inevitably additional costs and a long lead-time to production ( probably rather more than the two years in NZ ) as departments switch to accrual accounting . |
| 7 | Pearce could have done with more than the seven years he had at British Aerospace to achieve the kind of management culture he would have liked to have bequeathed to the company . |
| 8 | Nobody suggests you should buy shares over anything less than a three-to-five year period . ’ |
| 9 | As effective economic policy can hardly be judged in less than a three year period , and political affiliation is also a long-term question , it seems entirely reasonable that aid should be committed over a three year period . |
| 10 | Although there have been only five changes of governing party in Britain since nationalization in 1948 , there have been 21 transport ministers during that time , an average of one less than every two years . |