Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [verb] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | they say even though unemployment rates are very high now , people are prepared to wait ten years before they get a job . |
| 2 | Gerry Skelton , Borders district secretary of the TGWU , said that when the benefits agencies had mistakenly paid out extra money to claimants they had not been prepared to wait four years for the cash to be handed back . |
| 3 | It would only be possible to describe these years in such glowing terms , however , if we were to place our curiosity under strict curfew , refusing to allow it to look beyond the frozen images of faded snap-shots or the scratchy surface realities of the official crime statistics . |
| 4 | And will the six percent , which the Director of Education has been instructed to save across all central budgets , be enough to cover this years ' education overspend ? |
| 5 | You will not be eligible to purchase additional years of reckonable service . |
| 6 | They were first interviewed 13 years ago in 1977-78 and were last interviewed in 1988 . |
| 7 | During this drought the amplitude of this effect has been bigger than at any time since reliable pressure records for the region were first taken 50 years ago . |
| 8 | His paper , born during the German occupation of the Balkans , is due to celebrate 50 years of publication later this year . |
| 9 | By finding ways to reduce stress , for instance , according to many practitioners it is possible to look ten years younger , your quality of life will be enhanced and the benefits will also manifest themselves in longevity . |
| 10 | Furthermore , it is likely to take many years of research and practical work on intervention before we will be clear about the implications of this approach for children with language impairments . |
| 11 | He adds that the case is likely to take three years to sort out . |
| 12 | THE latest statistics show that a man retiring in Edinburgh is likely to live four years longer than his counterpart in Glasgow , it was stated yesterday . |
| 13 | He is likely to serve six years in prison |
| 14 | He 's got h he he 's likely to have many years yet is n't he , working for |
| 15 | He 's proud to have 80 years of family tradition behind him . |
| 16 | In the post-Thatcher era , and as both Labour and Conservative parties return to the centre ground , it is tempting to see those years as an aberration , tempting but false since the parameters of the debate have fundamentally shifted . |
| 17 | In 1926 I won a scholarship to Hastings High School for Girls , and was able to have four years of Grammar School education . |
| 18 | The relationship between serotonin and depression was first realised 25 years ago when reserpine , a drug used to treat hypertension , was observed to deplete the brain of serotonin and cause severe depression in a considerable number of patients . |
| 19 | As antimalarial drugs were desperately needed during the war , it is startling to realize that chloroquine was first synthesized several years before the war and recognized at that time as having antimalarial activity . |
| 20 | He said the hazards of long-term smoking were far greater than was realised when the link with lung cancer was first made 40 years ago . |
| 21 | A deep , circular tunnel to supplement conventional trunk mains was first mooted 34 years ago , but shelved for want of money . |
| 22 | Mr Paice said : ‘ I always remember from when I was first elected six years ago the notorious reputation of the A11 from Chippenham to the Kennett crossroads had as an accident blackspot . ’ |
| 23 | Chalmers had been forced to miss the Sunday practice on account of a bruised right thigh but he was given the all clear after yesterday 's training to renew rivalries with the Welsh — the country against whom he was first capped four years ago . |
| 24 | The Brady bill requires only a seven-day wait to purchase handguns , so that the authorities can run a background check on would-be buyers ; and the bill was first introduced six years ago . |
| 25 | The Two Forks dam project , which was to supply the population of Denver 's burgeoning suburbs with water , was first proposed ten years ago . |
| 26 | In the end , and to add to the injustices he had already suffered , Meehan was obliged to wait five years , which was the time it took Lord Hunter to complete and publish his report . |
| 27 | It was last debated 12 years ago when , after a recounted tied vote , the conference chairman cast against the motion and uproar ensued . |
| 28 | A subsidiary of the Rover group is producing complete bodyshells for the car , which was last built sixteen years ago . |
| 29 | A subsidiary of the Rover group is producing complete bodyshells for the car , which was last built sixteen years ago . |
| 30 | Danish defender Bjorn Kristensen hit the second-half equaliser that gave Kevin Keegan 's side a point they hardly deserved in the Anglo-Italian Cup they won when it was last staged 19 years ago . |