Example sentences of "[adj] years [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another four men and three women were sentenced to prison terms of between four and 30 years on charges of murder and piracy [ for January execution of alleged counter-revolutionary see p. 38715 ] . |
| 2 | Such events occur once every 30 years on average in our Galaxy , and a good proportion are not visible optically because of intervening matter . |
| 3 | Mr Briggs and his keeper have carried out most of the work over the last 30 years with help from an apprentice , part time estate workers and contractors . |
| 4 | I brought with me to New Zealand many paintings of my native Suffolk , much of the equipment used in over 30 years of painting in England , and all the learning achieved in the Suffolk fields . |
| 5 | Even after 30 years of marriage to Francine , Sacha says he still finds the heart-throb label difficult to live with . |
| 6 | AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL 30 YEARS OF STRUGGLE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS |
| 7 | MORE than 30 years of service to the Order of St John medical service will be rewarded for one of the Order 's most senior doctors in County Durham . |
| 8 | The machines are the product of 30 years of research into computer chess . |
| 9 | In parallel , and in the shorter-term , acceptance will still be possible for those over 30 years of age with appropriate and verified management experience over a period of at least five years . |
| 10 | The man who collected the cash-card is said to be about 30 years of age of medium build with black curly hair and clean-shaven . |
| 11 | From our study we have been able to show that at least 5% ( 6/122 ) of patients will not have polyps at 30 years of age on sigmoidoscopy and , as only 36/ 123 in our series were shown to definitely have polyps under 30 years , the real figure may be somewhat higher . |
| 12 | Nearly 30 years of use by the present regime have taken their toll , too . |
| 13 | Over 70 minutes of fun-filled frolics from almost 30 years of Match Of The Day , and we 've three of each to give away — all you have to do is slap a caption on this wee photo ! |
| 14 | Those whom it has encouraged are the likes of Saddam Hussein , who are fundamentally correct in claiming a link between the two occupations — hardly a flattering analogy but one for which many people may be about to pay for America 's 30 years of pusillanimity in the Middle East . |
| 15 | Rowland , who this year celebrates 30 years as head of Lonrho , sees the 1990s as a time of great opportunity particularly in Eastern Europe and South Africa . |
| 16 | In the nearby Municipal Buildings is a courtroom with the bench and chair used by Sir Walter Scott during his 30 years as Sheriff of Selkirk . |
| 17 | On March 5 two Palestinian teenagers were each sentenced to 30 years in prison for stabbing a Jewish student to death on a bus in Tel Aviv district on Dec. 2 , 1990 [ see p. 37928 ] . |
| 18 | Colonel Guillermo Benavides and Lieutenant Yusshy Mendoza , both serving 30 years in prison for killing six Jesuit priests in 1989 , will be released under the amnesty . |
| 19 | The trial of Sir Terence and the charges against Sir Joh were indicative of the depth of corruption associated with the National Party 's 30 years in office in Queensland which had ended with the party 's electoral defeat in 1989 . |
| 20 | The characteristic downturn in physical well-being and health status around 20 to 30 years from onset of impairment is often accompanied by a parallel downturn in satisfaction with the quality of life . |
| 21 | In addition Hickey served for some years as deputy to the sheriff of Calcutta and became clerk to Sir Henry Russell [ q.v. ] , ultimately chief justice of the Supreme Court . |
| 22 | Much of the development work that found its way into Challenger had been under way for some years on behalf of the Shah of Iran . |
| 23 | Like his predecessor Ralph Hodge , Mike Brogden spent some years at Millbank as Personnel General Manager . |
| 24 | Parson and White 's Gazeteer of Westmorland , published in 1829 six years after his death , records him ‘ residing some years at Keswick before settling in Ambleside ’ , which can not be true since he was certainly in London in the 1790's . |
| 25 | Early pupils were mainly youths who had just completed general schooling , and medical students , who may have served some years of apprenticeship to a surgeon , and to whom the contrast between an overcrowded surgical profession , and the developing veterinary profession , favoured the latter . |
| 26 | He had no formal schooling but was tutored privately , spending some years in France under orthopaedic specialists . |
| 27 | In Sweden the Social Democrats were ousted from power in 1976 after forty-five years in office by an alliance of ‘ bourgeois ’ parties , although they returned to office in 1982 . |
| 28 | The couple have run Ronald Richardson Jewellers for 16 years and have 140 years of tradition behind them . |
| 29 | With 38 deaths over 2 years of follow-up among the 119 survivors of the hospital admission , the study had 80% power to detect a relative risk of 3.0 between the oldest and youngest age groups . |
| 30 | Please note that to be classed as an infant , in accordance with Air Navigation Article 34 , a child must be under 2 years of age on the date of their return flight . |