Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] year of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Switzerland made up for 500 years of neutrality by setting about the Canadian team , who were unsportingly thrashing them . |
| 2 | He was to be given two weeks salary for each year of service . |
| 3 | Mark said clearly , ‘ Accepted British practice is at least one month 's salary for each year of service . |
| 4 | They often pay a higher pension , based on 1/60th for each year of service rather than l/80th , but the tax-free lump sum has to be bought by giving up part of your pension . |
| 5 | The Fire Brigade Union has requested one and a half weeks pay for each year of service , plus the annual bounty payment . |
| 6 | ‘ Subject to the provisions of this Ordinance , profits tax shall be charged for each year of assessment at the standard rate on every person carrying on a trade , profession or business in Hong Kong in respect of his assessable profits arising in or derived from Hong Kong for that year from such trade , profession or business ( excluding profits arising from the sale of capital assets ) as ascertained in accordance with this Part . |
| 7 | Draw up a life table for a cohort of 5000 students showing , for each year of study , the probability of leaving and the expected remaining stay calculated on the assumption that one-tenth of the leavers in any year depart at random times during the year and the remainder go at the end of that year . |
| 8 | In the past all Q.T 's received a training which was heavily subsidised by the Society — in to-day 's terms this amounted to about £200 per person for each year of training . |
| 9 | for each year of employment between the ages of 18 and 21 half a week 's pay ; |
| 10 | for each year of employment between the ages of 22 and 40 one week 's pay ; |
| 11 | for each year of employment between the ages of 41 and 65 one and a half week 's pay ; |
| 12 | During each year of study , work will be undertaken in both departments which are located within easy walking distance of each other . |
| 13 | Tommy Banks and Roy Hartle reigned through eight years of terror at Bolton under the slogan : ‘ We gives 'em gravel-rash ! ’ |
| 14 | Advanced Micro Devices Inc chief Jerry Sanders is not at all phased by Intel Corp 's excoriation and he told the conference his company was off to a good start for another year of record revenues , with a target of $1,650m in 1993 , $2,000m in 1994 and $3,000m by 1997 , and expects to ship 4m Am486 chips in 1994 for a 15% market share . |
| 15 | It 's an income redistribution to make up for 12 years of Reagan and Bush in which the rich got richer and the poor got poorer . |
| 16 | Both were neglected in the 1980s in the constant pressure to find cost-improvement savings , though the first would have resulted in longer-term economies and the latter will result in much bigger bills through cumulative years of neglect . |
| 17 | It is five percent of our expenditure budget for this year of course . |
| 18 | The motion congratulated the Australian Labour Party on defeating the amazingly right wing Sir Johannes Bjelke-Petersen after 32 years of power in Queensland . |
| 19 | Meanwhile , at clubs like Tottenham and Ajax of Amsterdam , fans now celebrate their club 's Jewish associations after suffering years of abuse for the same . |
| 20 | The exploitation of land and animals has gone on far too long — after fifty years of experimentation , let's move on to better things . |
| 21 | It was lovingly tended by its station-master , Mr James , who retired in 1899 after fifty years of service there , during which time he had installed not only flower-beds but a fountain complete with goldfish . |
| 22 | The old pre-war autobahn to Stuttgart only had a double carriageway and after fifty years of use was often under repair . |
| 23 | In 1979 , after eleven years of existence , the Urban Programme was particularly characterized by a network of local-government officials and councillors , voluntary-sector representatives , civil servants and a range of other interested organizations forming a mechanism through which valuable , if somewhat stereotyped , projects might be funded . |
| 24 | Julian Haylock [ JH ] : After eleven years of teaching music , and regular contributions to CDR since June 1990 , now full-time Editor . |
| 25 | After eleven years of Thatcherism the government 's macro policies have been transformed — for the worse . |
| 26 | The privately rented sector is declining fast , marginalized after seventy-five years of rent controls and other restrictions , although the present government seeks to change and revive it through partial deregulation . |
| 27 | Dorothy Mitchum , his wife since 1940 , tried to get him to move away from the West Coast after eight years of marriage , but he did n't want to leave so she and the children left him to go and live in New York . |
| 28 | Only once , after eight years of life in the jungle , did we observe this sequence of teaching behaviour . |
| 29 | After eight years of Queen Nancy in the White House , she seemed charmingly normal and down-to-earth . |
| 30 | She should have told her that after thirty-six years of marriage she 'd discovered her husband was a homosexual , the explanation of everything . |