Example sentences of "[adj] years [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children under 2 years at the time of the return journey travel for just £15 on all flights . |
| 2 | Children aged under 2 years at the time of departure are covered free of charge , provided all other persons on the Booking Form are insured under this scheme . |
| 3 | Before the 1965 Immigration Act , Mirpuri and Bengali families would send their sons to England for a few months or a few years at a time . |
| 4 | In any case , one or another form of ‘ Christianity ’ must have reached Britain within a few years of the time specified by Gildas . |
| 5 | Where any power to revoke or determine can not be exercised within six years from the time when any particular property first becomes comprised in the settlement , the subsection does not apply to income arising under the settlement from that property , or from property representing that property , so long as the power can not be exercised . |
| 6 | In spite of the fact that there has been a very long tradition of work on rural land use , including the invaluable land use survey of the 1930s ( Stamp , 1962 ) , and its revival in the second survey of the 1960s and 1970s * ( Coleman et al , 1974 ) and much other detailed work from other sources ( Hart , 1980 ; Coppock , 1960a ; Best , 1981 ) as shown in Table 8. 1 , there is still a desperate need ( Hall , 1 974 , 414 ) for a ‘ national Domesday book for land use , preferably updated every 10 years at the time of the population census ’ . |
| 7 | As a rule the right is first vested in the author , and continues for fifty years after his death ; but in the case of photographs and gramophone records the original owner of the negative or plate is treated as the author , and the right lasts for fifty years from the time when the negative or plate was made . |
| 8 | Claims for restitution have to be made however ( a ) within three years from the time when the claimant knew or ought reasonably to have known of the location , or the identity of the possessor of the object , and ( b ) in any case within a period of thirty years from the time of the theft . |
| 9 | ‘ a motor vehicle , namely a … to which section 47 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 applied and ’ Section 47 applies to all motor vehicles first used more than three years before the time at which it is proved to have been actually used on the road for the purpose of the present offence . |
| 10 | ‘ … for many years after the time named in this Ramble , Great College Street — beyond the terrace of houses extending to the entrance of Messrs. Goodall 's existing premises — was totally impassable even as a footpath in the winter . |
| 11 | Despite the jokes about it , the Bishop 's Castle Railway served the town and the district well for seventy years at a time when transport ( rapid by the standards of the day ) was becoming ever more important . |
| 12 | The first dates back two and a half thousand years to the time when the Persians were at war with the Egyptians . |
| 13 | But so physically restricted was the Calais area , and so often was it under French pressure , that for long years at a time all the needs of the garrison , whether in provisions or materials , had to be shipped in from England . |
| 14 | For this report we excluded patients who had disease states that placed limitations on the act of defecation such as hypotonia , cerebral palsy , and severe mental retardation and patients who were less than 6 years at the time of follow up , because our intend was to evaluate outcome in school age children . |
| 15 | Among the 39 developing countries that participated in the WFS , there is a strong correlation between the median age at first marriage or union and the median age at first birth among women aged 25–29 years at the time of the survey . |
| 16 | Among the developing countries that participated in the World Fertility Survey ( WFS ) , the median age at which women aged 25 to 29 years at the time of interview first married or entered a union ( i.e. , the age at which one half of them entered into conjugal union ) ranged from 13.1 years in Bangladesh to 23.0 in Sri Lanka . |
| 17 | He was apprenticed about 1602 to the London engraver and instrument-maker Charles Whitwell , with whom he claimed to have served nine years by the time of Whitwell 's death in 1611 . |
| 18 | Oh yes it 's been nine years by the time he goes |
| 19 | In matters of this kind we are often considering a span of 15–20 years from the time when it is first apparent that an old person can not ‘ carry on as before ’ to the time of death . |
| 20 | After this the treaty would be tacitly extended for five years at a time insofar as one of the signatories did not give one year 's notice of cancelling the treaty . ] |
| 21 | Thus it seems hardly sufficient for people to vote every four or five years at a time of a general election , the brevity of the act carrying little weight or influence . |
| 22 | A useful starting point is to go back twenty years to a time when computers were still huge , unfriendly devices demanding air-conditioned environments and costing millions . |
| 23 | The prosecution claimed that the murder victim was alone in a carriage when the defendant — aged 15 years at the time — confronted her , demanding money and brandishing a knife . |
| 24 | However , if the right is not commercially exploited within 15 years of the creation of the topography , the right expires 15 years from the time the topography was first recorded in a design document or the time when an article was first made to the design , whichever is the earlier . |
| 25 | There is undoubtedly some truth in this ; the nobility frequently sent proxies to parliament in these years ; they were too preoccupied with war to have any reason for opposing the king in parliament , and their independent campaigns on the continent took some of them away from England for several years at a time . |
| 26 | This is a full-time appointment , and in most universities a permanent one , though some ( notably Oxford , Cambridge and London ) elect their vice chancellor for a period of several years at a time . |
| 27 | Claims for restitution have to be made however ( a ) within three years from the time when the claimant knew or ought reasonably to have known of the location , or the identity of the possessor of the object , and ( b ) in any case within a period of thirty years from the time of the theft . |
| 28 | The Dwarfs refer to the following five hundred years as the time of the Goblin Wars , as Dwarfs and Goblins fight for possession of the old Dwarf empire . |
| 29 | So basically what you , you , what you would be likely to do is rip o rip off the system completely for two years at a time |
| 30 | But during the two years between the time when the book was first mooted and its publication in 1982 , the company had transformed itself and the book did not reflect the grander style of living which Laura was now espousing . |