Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] years [prep] [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 | Gypsy families , who 've camped for 70 years on sites like this one near Hereford , say they have no desire to give up their way of life . |
| 3 | ‘ They both have temperaments , ’ says Andris Toppe , who has worked with the couple for eight years as choreographer and rehearsal director . |
| 4 | He had not worked and fought for eight years in order to give Aquitaine away to someone else . |
| 5 | When the heads of government of the five ASEAN countries held their first meeting for eight years in February 1976 in Indo-China they failed to agree on regional security and the communiqué of the meeting did not mention neutralisation . |
| 6 | A BRITON jailed for eight years in Iraq after being seized by border guards on the frontier with Kuwait has been named as Simon Dunn , 23 . |
| 7 | Tommy Banks and Roy Hartle reigned through eight years of terror at Bolton under the slogan : ‘ We gives 'em gravel-rash ! ’ |
| 8 | Over 1,400 delegates met for the governing Nepali Congress Party 's first national convention for 32 years on Feb. 13-15 , at Jhapa , 400 km east of Kathmandu , the capital . |
| 9 | Mrs Dale 's Diary , which ran for twenty-one years on BBC radio from 1948 , was always gently laced with humour ; its rural rival , The Archers , which began two years later , is a broadly similar amalgam of the playful and the sentimental ; and between them , in a sub-literary sort of way , they illustrate the power of a revived realism in post-war Britain : quite different from the grand-opera histrionics of American TV soaps like Dallas or Dynasty , which are scarcely funny at all , at least in intention , and wildly unrealistic as images of how the rich in the United States really live . |
| 10 | ‘ It is interesting that a major conservation charity like the Trust has been served with a writ now , when we have been doing this for 30 years at Blickling , ’ he added . |
| 11 | The park has been used regularly for 30 years by Yorkshire County Cricket Club and it is also home to Middlesbrough rugby and cricket clubs . |
| 12 | The couple 's elder son , Jonathan , who served for 12 years at sea with the Dutch Merchant Navy , is a marine engineer . |
| 13 | Also among those released was Aleke Banda , a former secretary-general of the ruling Malawi Congress Party ( MCP ) who had been detained for 12 years without charge ; he was at one time considered to be the heir-apparent of the ageing President Hastings Banda . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | AMAN jailed for 12 years for robbery after he was picked out on an identity parade because of his ‘ frightening , evil , and sadistic eyes ’ , was cleared by the Court of Appeal in London yesterday . |
| 16 | Featherstone is another area that once relied on coal and it is also where I taught for 12 years as deputy head of a comprehensive school which I established . |
| 17 | All of these subjects were for year 9 to choose from to study for 2 years at G.C.S.E. level . |
| 18 | Therefore , we conducted a prospective cohort study of patients admitted to hospital with community-acquired pneumonia to identify the predictors of mortality for 2 years after hospital care . |
| 19 | It also restated downward — although not drastically , previously reported results for fiscal years to June 1992 and 1991 , to reflect the fact that customers that bought Sequoia gear were not required to pay for some kit until it was resold to end-users . |
| 20 | But Lord Donaldson paid tribute to Lord Lane and defended his performance during 12 years as Lord Chief Justice . |
| 21 | Donald needed a fitness test yesterday before being cleared to play in South Africa 's historic first home Test for 22 years against India in Durban this morning . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | In addition Hickey served for some years as deputy to the sheriff of Calcutta and became clerk to Sir Henry Russell [ q.v. ] , ultimately chief justice of the Supreme Court . |
| 24 | François de Surienne certainly showed himself capable of independent activity before throwing in his lot for some years with Henry VI , whom he served before being elected a Knight of the Garter . |
| 25 | Much of the development work that found its way into Challenger had been under way for some years on behalf of the Shah of Iran . |
| 26 | Born at the end of the thirteenth century in the Yorkshire village of Thornton-le-dale , he had studied for some years at Oxford , sponsored by Thomas Neville , Archdeacon of Durham . |
| 27 | I think that what we 're really looking for is a stimulating , exciting involvement of parents , of students , of teachers , of everyone who has an interest in the success of a school , and I think for some years at Cardinal Newman we have been trying to create this open society , which gives access at all levels to all the children and to their parents , and we do n't want to close the society in any shape or form . |
| 28 | Coenwulf vigorously crushed the revolt in Kent and captured Eadberht , who was blinded and mutilated and taken in chains into Mercia ( ASC A , F , s.a. 796 ) where he was imprisoned for some years at Winchcombe . |
| 29 | I studied mathematics for some years at school and I have not totally forgotten all of them . |
| 30 | For some years at Tesco , we have been collecting the boxes in which our products are delivered to stores and some of the paper that we use in our offices for re-cycling . |