Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [verb] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | A report by Mr John Flook , the authority 's deputy chief executive , showed that those waiting two years dropped from 74 in December to 43 last month . |
| 2 | Because modern emulsions are much finer grained than those produced 100 years ago , Rodinal now gives discerning photographers , both amateur and professional , printed results that were not possible when the developer was invented . |
| 3 | If he plays in all five Pakistan Tests , he will be one short of 100 appearances for England , and that includes three years in the middle of his career when he was banned from selection for involvement in a rebel tour of South Africa . |
| 4 | A Russian representative stayed for about a year in Stockholm in 1635 – 36 , and another spent four years in western Europe , mainly in the Dutch republic , in the early 1660s ; but both of these were sent for mainly commercial purposes and the second was an Englishman long resident in Russia . |
| 5 | Sixteen patients received acute dialysis or haemofiltration — a rate of 18 cases ( 10.3 to 29.2 ) per million population per year or 22.1 ( 12.6 to 35.8 ) per million adults per year ; eight of these patients survived three months and four survived two years . |
| 6 | The argument is the same as that used 150 years before by Alexander I — and just as impossible for us to test . |
| 7 | On the other hand , the French boasted they could make a neutron bomb , the US was still anguished over the spy story of Cheltenham as Prime got 35 years ' rumours of Brezhnev 's death proved true . |
| 8 | Indeed , films like ‘ The Living River ’ are as much in demand now as when first produced five years ago . |
| 9 | Queen fans were devastated when Barcelona — a Top Ten hit when first released five years ago — was controversially elbowed out as the Games 's theme song by Amigos Para Siempre ( Friends For Life ) . |