Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] years [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This disenfranchising policy will be taken a stage further in the political domain , with the linking for the first time for fifty years of the right to vote with the payment of contributions to local government exchequers . |
| 2 | The proponents of the law had proposed a fee of 5% of the sale price of the object to be paid to artists or their survivors for fifty years after the artist 's death . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Copyright in a work lasts for fifty years from the end of the calendar year in which its author or composer dies . |
| 5 | The other discovery we are making is of that world cut off from us for fifty years by the Iron Curtain ; Simon Jervis 's otherwise excellent Penguin Dictionary of Design and Designers published in 1984 does not include a single one of the leading names in Czech Cubist design : Josef Gocar , Pavel Janak , Vlastislav Hofman , Josef Chochol and Otakar Novotny . |
| 6 | In 1965 I came to work with Basil as an art adviser in the West Riding after lecturing for eight years at the Froebel Institute in Roehampton . |
| 7 | We have been negotiating for eight years with the Faroese authorities in an effort to get them to stop , without success . |
| 8 | Left wing Labour MP for Sheffield Brightside from 1974–87 , she had been a senior officer in the agricultural workers union and was chair for eight years of the Campaign Group of Labour Mps . |
| 9 | The house was built by an Edwardian doctor using only the best materials — oak cured for eight years for the lower rooms ' panelling , fine teak for the window frames and mahogany for the fireplace . |
| 10 | A seat in the House of Representatives for Massachusetts , held for 32 years by the late Silvio O. Conte ( Republican ) , was won by the Democrats at a special election on June 4 ; John Olver , a liberal Democrat and strong supporter of abortion rights , narrowly defeated conservative Republican Steven Pierce , an opponent of abortion . |
| 11 | The fact that the pieces have lain for 300 years under the sea bed means that they are remarkably fresh while the tight settings have ensured that the inlaid stones are still in place . |
| 12 | This is excess mortality of er rates for males and females age one to four for different years of the twentieth century . |
| 13 | Erm , this is a graph for annual mortality of males and females aged one to four for different years of the twentieth of the century . |
| 14 | He has served for 30 years as the local church warden and he spent 42 years as treasurer of the local branch of the Royal British Legion . |
| 15 | After the war he served for 30 years in the history section of the |
| 16 | And DUP man Willie Cully , jailed for 12 years in the early '70s for terrorist offences , was defeated after gaining 485 first preference votes . |
| 17 | A set of conference papers was available for 2 years after the conference and sets were purchased by many people at a nominal price . |
| 18 | They wander around for forty years in the wilderness ! |
| 19 | The board has been concerned for some years about the possible impact of excessive dependence on coal — used for 80 per cent of electricity currently generated — if developments in the domestic or international coal market push prices up rapidly . |
| 20 | Indeed , as mentioned above , the railways were for some years under the direct control of the sponsor ministry ( at that time the ministry of public works ) . |
| 21 | 0-6-0T locomotives in the Class USA had been an interesting addition to the British Railway scene at the end of World War Two and for some years during the steam era of British Railways . |
| 22 | The late Miss Pepper , who lived for some years at The Bield , spoke of the ‘ throwing up ’ of fleeces during clipping to a helper on the gallery . |
| 23 | Educated , like Lilian Lawson , at Donaldson 's School and the Mary Hare Grammar School , Irene qualified as a teacher and taught for some years at the Northern Counties School for the Deaf in Newcastle-upon-Tyne before joining the staff of the BDA in 1981 . |
| 24 | Two locomotives ( ’ North Star ’ and ‘ Lord of the Isles ’ ) survived for some years at the Swindon works , but were judges to be taking up too much room and Churchward ordered that they be scrapped after the Science Museum had turned them down . |
| 25 | Conditions of work were not pleasant ; landowners tried to get their estates cultivated by indentured labourers who had come out under a contract to work for some years for the man who paid for the journey or anyone to whom he sold the right to command their services . |
| 26 | For some years after the War there had been severe power cuts in winter , when demand reached its peak , because of shortages of both power station capacity and coal to burn in the plant that was available . |
| 27 | Whereas before the War , the peak had come with lighting demand in the late winter afternoons , it was , for some years after the War , between 8 and 9a.m. when the domestic space heating demand was at its height . |
| 28 | For some years after the Act of 1967 came into force , the majority of life sentences were reviewed by local review committees seven years after the sentences were imposed . |
| 29 | But during 1939–45 and for some years after the war , there was a marked change in judicial attitudes . |
| 30 | It has to be said that there has been for some years within the Labour Party something of a class divide — a working-class element resentful of a middle-class takeover by lawyers and the like . |