Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [num] years it " in BNC.
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| 1 | But for me , all the time , it is a reminder that for 49 years it replaced wedding anniversary celebrations , and the memory of all those bonfires on the way to Bournemouth on a drizzly November afternoon , all those years ago . |
| 2 | Labour 's simple , single theme is that after 13 years it is time for a change . |
| 3 | ‘ Did n't you realise that after five years it is n't possible to claim on someone 's estate ? ’ |
| 4 | The KNU president Gen. Bo Mya , in a letter to Saw Maung dated Nov. 30 , 1989 , said that after 40 years it had been " proven beyond doubt that the civil war , which is basically a political problem , can not be settled by military means " , and that " the most correct and suitable means of achieving [ the KNU 's ] political goals is the settlement of the civil war politically , in a just and rational manner " . |
| 5 | All in all , it was still impossible to predict that , within six years of the 1911 national transport stoppage , Wilson 's vision of a joint union-Shipping Federation board would be imposed on the industry and that within nine years it would have been accepted voluntarily by the Federation as the normal and accepted method of conducting business with Wilson and his colleagues . |
| 6 | Foster 's reckons that within five years it will brew as much beer in China as in Australia . |
| 7 | Its mission — and it thinks that within two years it will achieve it — is 10% . |
| 8 | She has always relied on instinct , and for 55 years it has served her well . |
| 9 | Juniper Green Tennis Club was formed in 1979 and for 11 years it has provided a valuable service to the local community in Juniper Green and Baberton Mains . |
| 10 | Others are moving into the frame and within five years it is possible that more than half of all lamb will be sold overseas . |
| 11 | The CBOE began with option contracts on only 16 blue chip shares , but within 10 years it and 3 other exchanges offered about 9500 different option contracts on 350 securities ( out of a total of about 6,000 US listed stocks ) . |