Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [coord] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , they point out , that could involve living together for fifty or sixty years , compared to the twenty or thirty of previous generations . |
| 2 | Some kinds of long-term memory seem to endure indefinitely even though they have apparently been lost for a long time , e.g. an older person may find it easy to recall childhood events with great clarity even though there has been no use of the material for fifty or sixty years . |
| 3 | When my youngest brother was born and I was between eight and nine years old , my troubles began in earnest . |
| 4 | He was a great businessman who ran a company which produced unique goods for 70 or 80 years . |
| 5 | Against Yorkshire that year he had match figures of 15 for 75 and three years later claimed an even more remarkable 15 for 31 against the same side . |
| 6 | Greg Downs says the club is in a better position than it 's been for eight or nine years and if they can play as well as last year they 've got a good chance |
| 7 | Only women who have never taken the pill and those who have taken it for eight or more years are followed up beyond the age of 45 . |
| 8 | Among them were women between 70 and 80 years of age , some of them using crutches . |
| 9 | Seren Haminh was — according to the image — between fifty and sixty years old , of average height , grey-haired and grey-eyed . |
| 10 | Younger first time buyers would find such a scheme an unnecessary burden since , presuming that they retired at the standard age , they would have to continue paying their mortgage for 30 or 40 years before the pension plan matured to pay it off . |
| 11 | During the Second World War most Italians were interned as enemy aliens , even though they may have been respected members of the community for 30 or 40 years — and even had relatives serving in the British forces . |
| 12 | Two medical doctors , Julio Bientz Saab , 42 , and Julián Arana Rosainz , 35 , were imprisoned for 12 and eight years respectively on July 9 for plotting to kill Castro by blowing up the Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery in the capital , Havana , where they both worked , on his visit in September 1990 . |
| 13 | There were 17 male and eight female patients , with ages between 43 and 82 years ( median 66 ) . |
| 14 | FOUR Guatemalan police officers were found guilty on 28 April , 1992 of the murder of thirteen-year-old street child Nahaman Carmona Lopez and sentenced by the Fifth Criminal Sentencing Court of the First Instance to imprisonment terms of between 12 and 18 years . |
| 15 | Nearly half the cases ( 49 per cent ) involved abuse of adolescent girls between 12 and 16 years ; 37 per cent involved abuse of children aged between 6 and 11 years ; while the remaining 14 per cent involved children of preschool age . |
| 16 | She had been married for 19 years and had four children ( aged between 12 and 17 years ) . |
| 17 | Six officers received sentences of between 12 and 20 years , two were acquitted , and charges were later dropped against 100 non-commissioned officers . |
| 18 | Broadly speaking , transformation into a common market was to be spread over a period of between 12 and 15 years , with a stepwise progression through stages of four years each . |
| 19 | The ‘ doubling time ’ , defined as the taken for the number of theses per year to double , is somewhere between 12 and 15 years , so that within the 24 years covered by the present study , the population has only doubled once . |
| 20 | He was a short , dry man , with a square , expressionless face , between forty and fifty years old . |
| 21 | The test was originally standardised on 1,000 children aged between 2 and 10 years from schools in Illinois . |
| 22 | 3 years ago , Paul Highfield was diagnosed as having chronic Leukemia and given between 2 and 10 years to live . |
| 23 | It would seem that up until recently ( usually this is specified as up to between 2 and 5 years ago ) individual incomers ( the ‘ soothmoother ’ type ) were assimilated with relative ease into individual social networks centred in neighbourhoods or villages . |
| 24 | To qualify for these reductions , children must be aged between 2 and 11 years inclusive on the date of departure . |
| 25 | There were five entry criteria : ( a ) age between 2 and 11 years ( but none were over 9 ) ; ( b ) pronounced subjective hearing loss ; ( c ) pneumatic otoscopic confirmation of fluid in the middle ear of both ears ; ( d ) tympanometry not showing a type A peaked curve ( 98% type B , 2% type C1 or C2 ) ; and ( e ) in excess of 25 dB pure audiometric or free field hearing loss in each ear at one or more frequencies . |
| 26 | I think that 's partly the problem , and the prospect of sustaining this for forty or fifty years . |
| 27 | The Nefertari was a veteran , it was said , of something between 30 and 40 years on the river ; someone thought she had been built on the hull of a much older Nile steamer , and another that she might be a pharaoh 's reconstituted sun-boat , disinterred , like the others , near the Great Pyramid . |
| 28 | No one has yet solved the problem of what to do with it — turning it into glass chips is the latest idea , but engineers have to wait between 30 and 50 years until the waste has cooled down sufficiently enough for the process to take place . |
| 29 | Moreover , as AIDS starts to affect the most productive section of the community ( those between 30 and 50 years ) there is not going to be the skilled labour available in the future to supply enough food for the nation . |
| 30 | Eighty girls who had lived in one of two children 's homes in 1964 , when they had been subjects of a study by Jack Tizard and his colleagues , were traced and interviewed by Quinton and his colleagues , when they were aged between twenty-one and twenty-seven years . |