Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [prep] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Man , I 've been worrying about that for fifteen years ! ’ exclaims Bryan . |
| 2 | My Lord the only point of interest and it 's really one that I took in the of the submission is that if you use an up to date nineteen ninety three figure for calculating it when it was first back to years three and a half , two and a half and one and a half years ago , then intre it would n't be fair if interest is awarded on that as well because in a sense the increase in the figure that inflation and the increased cost of living has produced because you use an up to date figure , probably equates with the interest and we can the figure an up to date one to avoid just that otherwise it would be getting the figures for each of those years and then working out interest . |
| 3 | For each of these years our members have enjoyed the good value offered by Homecover in price and cover . |
| 4 | To make this possible it is easy to add a table showing the balance for each of 25 years . |
| 5 | But they did agree to disagree about the how and why of storytelling and , as Ms Sontag concluded , ‘ We are going to go on talking about this for many years but now , alas , we have to stop ’ . |
| 6 | You may wince at the ‘ blurbs ’ at the top of features today but how about this from 40 years ago : ‘ A new feature called ‘ Argument ’ — a spontaneous tape-recorded discussion by leading personalities on a topic of the moment faithfully transcribed by assistant editor Jack Baverstock . ’ |
| 7 | I was questioned about this in recent years when I visited the Camp during one of my lecture rounds to the ATC in the Highlands , but I only add this yarn to illustrate that it takes all kinds to make any air force station , and I am sure our childrens ' children will be told and the tale will no doubt be embroidered to suit the occasion . |
| 8 | Whenever he thought about this in later years , his memory would go back to the Cuddesdon time and the shock of seeing a House of Commons pretending that it knew how people ought to say their prayers . |
| 9 | The same spoon had been used for this for many years and was burnt black . |
| 10 | Laurence McGarry , chairman of Scottish Innovation , said : ‘ We have hoped and worked for this for many years and without the support and assistance from a whole range of people , it would not have happened . |
| 11 | What I wish to discuss then is the contention of some in recent years that ‘ Jesus was a feminist ’ . |
| 12 | The most obvious example of this in recent years , of course , has been the relationship between Lloyds Bank plc , Black Horse Agencies plc and the various unlimited companies acquired by the latter . |
| 13 | For very few of these past 170 years have Greeks felt properly in command of their own country . |
| 14 | One of the most famous of these in post-war years was the Nyasaland Commission of Enquiry of 1959 led by Mr Justice Devlin who reported in terms of which the government of the day did not wholly approve . |
| 15 | This is partly because politics as such are compromised in the eyes of many after 40 years of the Communist regime . |
| 16 | ( 1984 ) report that for those aged 65 + in 1974 reported activity limitation varied from 61.2 per cent of those with five years ' or less education to 34.2 per cent of those with a college education . |
| 17 | Thus , the mean proportion of time spent retired by those within 4–6 years of pension age was 19 per cent , compared with 57 per cent of those within 3–4 years , and 84 per cent of those with 1–2 years to go before reaching pension age . |
| 18 | The proportion reporting that they thought people were healthier now than in their parents ' time decreased with age , from 78 per cent of those aged 65 — 74 years to 67 per cent of those aged 85 years and over ( Victor 1990a ) . |
| 19 | Censuses of those aged 65 years and over in any type of residential care at midnight on 11 December 1979 and 27 November 1990 . |
| 20 | Thus , the mean proportion of time spent retired by those within 4–6 years of pension age was 19 per cent , compared with 57 per cent of those within 3–4 years , and 84 per cent of those with 1–2 years to go before reaching pension age . |
| 21 | During these past ten years , he had learned a great deal about his stepfather 's business ; not only did he trudge the streets collecting money , which he then took to the bank after it had been religiously recounted by Luther , but he was the one who made all the entries into the ledgers ; he was the one who always met with accountants and reported back to his stepfather , who constantly grumbled that he was ‘ too ill and racked with pain' to weigh himself down with the burden of meetings and ridiculous men in ridiculous suits , with their ridiculous ideas that a man should always invest the money he earns with the sweat of his brow … |
| 22 | What changes have taken place in Craven Arms during these past 40 years ! |
| 23 | Surely that is what perestroika has been about these past five years ? |
| 24 | In terms of ideology it is exactly what the FMLN has been fighting for these past seven years . |
| 25 | he gets sixty-three years , you know , I mean what 's the use of keeping a bugger like that for sixty-three years , it 's bloody ridiculous , in n it ? |
| 26 | That is not systematic momegliture that has gone like that for ten years universities still use it ! |
| 27 | And nobody can imagine him like that in twenty years time . |
| 28 | ‘ I have been working for a moment like this for nine years and finally it has arrived . |
| 29 | I have been working for a moment like this for nine years and finally it has arrived . |
| 30 | Some of the committee 's more disputed decisions have thrown up questions like these in recent years . |