Example sentences of "[adj] years [noun] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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1 | A friend of 30 years standing who had previously cared for a woman with senile dementia described how : |
2 | After her first five years apprenticeship she became involved with transport and it was here that she was destined to make her mark and has continued to do so for 37 years . |
3 | Now you 're moving to Bilborough , you 're moving to Bilborough erm just say in five years time they got rid of the flats erm and they built houses on here on the site , would you move back ? |
4 | It was the Seven Years War which broke up completely and decisively the old system of balance four decades later . |
5 | At the most critical moment of the Seven Years War it amounted to 4.4 per cent of the total population of the country , the highest proportion of this kind reached in any State during the century . |
6 | Even during the much more disastrous Seven Years War she made strenuous efforts under the Duc de Choiseul to recover her lost seapower , and these were continued in the 1760s and 1770s . |