Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adj] years [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The capacity and speed of optoelectronics make it an ideal means for simplifying switching and routing with optical networking a possibility for perhaps 10 years time — a prospect that researchers from University College are currently co-researching with British Telecommunications Plc in Harlow . |
| 2 | All around , tacking between the galleys , milling around the Doge 's vessel , I see the myriad small craft by which for so many years Venice exerted its supremacy around the Adriatic shores . |
| 3 | I 'll miss football and the day-to-day involvement after over 30 years boy and man . |
| 4 | After a reign of only six years Charibert died . |
| 5 | Property agreements sometimes state that the terms of conveyances or leases are to be agreed by the parties , or , if they fail to agree , will be settled by a solicitor specialising in real property of so many years qualification and practising in a particular locality , such as the City of London . |
| 6 | After an absence of over 20 years John recently rejoined the JCR when he had an accommodation problem whilst working on a contract in Birmingham . |
| 7 | It was as irrational as it was melodramatic , but so was the darkened room where for nearly thirty years Alfred had striven to keep alive the great illusion of his youth . |
| 8 | For nearly four years Tony has lain in a coma , sustained by a feeding tube but trapped in what one doctor described as a ‘ living death ’ . |
| 9 | For nearly 30 years Mike Hooper from Water & Ventilation , Salisbury was a rally navigator , but 5 years ago he stopped when a large tree jumped out in front of the car . |
| 10 | For nearly 3 years Susan Hurd has made an RAF house her home . |
| 11 | With over 10 years experience of developing and manufacturing ecologically safe products , ECOVER maintains a research laboratory which constantly monitors the composition and quality of the products in accordance with a strict set of standards . |
| 12 | Development Alternatives Inc. , an international consulting firm with over 20 years experience , is expanding its services in economic policy analysis . |
| 13 | And that was the Logagun models For about ten years feature models were quite popular in perception . |
| 14 | After we had been at school for about three years Arnold Hodson , who had been Consul in Southern Abyssinia , was staying with us at the beginning of the holidays . |
| 15 | For about forty years Clanricarde spoke frequently in the House of Lords on a wide range of subjects . |
| 16 | For about 15 years Lindsey averaged 20 airshows per season with the ‘ 108 , and the aircraft has probably participated in more airshows than any other UK warbird . |
| 17 | For about twenty-five years people had to live with the dilemma . |
| 18 | To allow for this inflation all you have to do is calculate the value of £1 now in so many years time and use this as a correction factor . |
| 19 | why this week … well in exactly three years time the Olympic flame will be lit in Atlanta for the next games … and one of the new sports will be laser sailing … and all the boats are being built by the company in Banbury |
| 20 | In just two years Opren captured well over half the market for drugs to treat arthritis . |
| 21 | By this time the guitar had made its popular impact , and in just five years time it would be considered virtually the instrument of musical expression . |
| 22 | As the eager spectators applauded , and their cheers echoed around the field at Louis Paulhan 's success , how could anyone imagine that in just nine years time the Atlantic Ocean would be conquered by a young man in the crowd . |
| 23 | In just three years fish and fishkeeping have taken over reader JAY CHANDLER 'S life . |
| 24 | In more recent years Jim passed on to me his copies of The Nottingham Graduate . |
| 25 | In more recent years provision by the associations of advisory services in labour matters , dispute settlement procedures and legislative issues — as well as pressure-group activities — have all become general , reflecting the increasing complexity of industrial relations and the enlarged role of government . |
| 26 | In more recent years specialists from other areas have also criticized ROI ( see Hayes and Garvin , 1982 ; Hill , 1985 ) . |
| 27 | For the first time in nearly 40 years Bentley has a shape to call its own . |
| 28 | At er well this week you sort of look back and say yeah but erm in about ten years time if you come and ask me the same question I would be able be in a better position to give you an answer . |
| 29 | So for all you prospective parents out there help may be at hand in around two years time . |
| 30 | Yes erm because I doubt it , erm at the moment with the fund that we 're talking about the erm the close scheme , because most of these people in B T were originally erm in the Post Office , and of course when the they split erm then the erm Post Office workers went over to B T , they get a B T pension but in actual fact they paid into a pension scheme erm for many of them for forty years because they come into that age group , where so many people , you took a job when you were twenty o or or sixteen and you stayed with it for life , you did n't chop and change like people do these days and the majority of our members erm we can go down and I would say the vast majority of our members have actually worked for the Post Office or starting with the Post Office and then B T or staying with the Post Office for forty years , there 's no end of them they 've got in there forty years service . |