Example sentences of "[adj] years [prep] [noun] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They fought like wounded lions in the next game ; 20 ; 30 years on Swindon are showing the same spirit . |
| 2 | Children under 2 years of age are fully covered by the insurance when travelling with an insured person . |
| 3 | Forty years of failure are the result not only of misjudged policies from both Conservative and Labour Governments . |
| 4 | Well in the fifties , forty years of age was hugely old , I mean my dad at forty when I remember back was like a really old man at forty in those days . |
| 5 | ‘ His former students will within a few years of graduation be earning a salary twice that of his , ’ the report says . |
| 6 | ‘ Citation frequency within a few years of publication is a reliable indicator of a paper 's lifetime citation expectancy . ’ |
| 7 | Age limits of 15 and 22 years on entry were fixed . |
| 8 | Not long afterwards his hotbeds produced ‘ fine , large , beautiful fruit , just like Miller 's ’ and so six years of patience were rewarded . |
| 9 | For example , outbreeding is much more likely to occur than brother-sister incest because of the apparently innate rule that individuals raised closely together during the first six years of life are inhibited from full sexual intercourse at maturity . |
| 10 | Six years of war were over and most of us were barely out of school when it began , so what came next ? |
| 11 | Martin Braine found that if children between five and six years of age are shown a standard visual illusion — such as a stick in water appearing to be broken , by light refraction — they will distinguish correctly between ‘ looks ? ’ and ‘ really ? ’ questions , but that if they are asked the neutral question ‘ Is the stick straight or broken ? ’ they will say that it is broken . |
| 12 | The proviso whereby it was possible for some individuals to enjoy an enhanced accrual scale to qualify for full pension benefits after 10 years of service was altered in the 1987 Budget — with a new period of 20 years ' service being required . |
| 13 | All the strictures detected before 10 years of colitis were benign ( 12/12 ) ; from 10–19 years , 84% were benign ( 21/24 ) ; but at 20 years and over , most ( 61% ) were malignant ( 14/23 ) ( p<0.001 ) . |
| 14 | His achievements at the RA in his 10 years of office were immense , innovative and all modestly carried through . |
| 15 | Professional Studies in the early years of schooling is a course which extends throughout the first three years of the degree . |
| 16 | Despite the primacy of its influence , socialisation in the early years of life is not confined to the family , however . |
| 17 | The early years of life are intensely physical years . |
| 18 | The early years in Tennessee were hard and the family was frequently hungry , but in 1868 Frances , who from her earliest childhood had been a compulsive inventor of romances , sold her first two stories to Godey 's Lady 's Book , raising the money for paper and postage by selling wild grapes . |
| 19 | The early years in work are of great importance . |
| 20 | occurred when the climate was sensitized by a long-term shift from glacial to the current interglacial conditions , but whether we should take comfort from the fact and the past 8,000 years of stability is debatable . |
| 21 | Fifty Years of Service is John 's Proud Record |
| 22 | For the prospect of a retirement pension for all those presently under fifty years of age is looking distinctly forlorn we must protect the pension rights of all contributing members we must insist that trustees are elected from the shop floor and not appointed by some faceless director who may not even reside in this country . |
| 23 | The old pre-war autobahn to Stuttgart only had a double carriageway and after fifty years of use was often under repair . |
| 24 | Thirty odd years in Manchester is definitely er |
| 25 | In all of the districts under study the care of people under 65 or 70 years of age was organized by community mental health teams , dispersed throughout the district . |
| 26 | These years in Salzburg were also marked by Mozart 's increasing frustration with life under Colloredo . |
| 27 | In essence , what has stood me in good stead all these years in broadcasting is spotting good people and waiting for them to come forward with what interests them ; what obsessions , what passions they have in translating those into programmes . |
| 28 | Patient years of observation were measured from the first date of a prescription up to the patient 's death or 31 October 1990 . |
| 29 | However , the variations in mortality between the developed and Third World in the later years of life are much less extreme . |
| 30 | This in part reflected the conviction of nineteenth-century experts that the later years of life were a stage of general physical and mental deterioration . |