Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] four years " in BNC.
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| 1 | This group had already trekked from Pochala on the Ethiopian border ; some of the boys had been living a transitory existence for four years . |
| 2 | The Avery prize paid for a free place for four years at Redmond College , one of the best colleges in Canada . |
| 3 | She 'd lived in the apartment in the fashionable Latin Quarter for four years , with her wealthy American boyfriend , Richard Knorr . |
| 4 | On Dec. 14 Sergei Parfyonov , the former deputy commander in Riga of the Soviet Interior Ministry troops , the OMON , was sentenced by a Latvian court to four years ' imprisonment in a corrective labour camp for " exceeding his authority " during events in Riga in January 1991 [ see p. 37945 ] . |
| 5 | Foreman 's opponent in 1974 , Muhammad Ali , is the other important articulator of protest , and his dominance over other heavyweights for a period of fourteen years was so complete that he was impossible to suppress , even though his enforced incapacitation for four years did seem to dull his sharpness in criticizing white racism . |
| 6 | ‘ Philip has n't written a real play for four years , ’ Maud said , looking round for the waiter . |
| 7 | But companies can stop giving at any time ; under the traditional system of covenants , they were committed to giving an annual donation for four years . |
| 8 | Mutiny by the men , and what could a Petty Officer do if the Ministry in Moscow determined that the sailors of the Storozhevoy should not be freed from their conscripted service after four years at sea , that they should serve another year , what could a Petty Officer to ? |
| 9 | The Ellis Park row had plunged the future of the Wallaby tour into grave doubt and for French it signalled the possible heartbreaking end to four years of endless and dedicated hard work to have rugby sanctions against South Africa lifted . |
| 10 | NATALIE HUNTER , 27 , has been unemployed since December after working as a graphic designer for four years . |
| 11 | The company does not have a sparkling financial story to tell — it lost £1.7m pre-tax on turnover of £12.5m in the year to September 30 , and its only profitable period in four years was the nine months to September 1991 , when it did £684,000 pre-tax on sales of £9.6m . |
| 12 | Plans to swap 10% or so of its shares with Germany 's Dresdner Bank , touted as the most ambitious cross-border linkage of its kind , have been awaiting approval from the European Community for four years . |
| 13 | February 's inflation rate showed a 2.3 per cent monthly increase ( the biggest monthly rise for four years ) , representing an annualized rate for early 1990 of just over 13 per cent , substantially above the budget target . |
| 14 | He said : ‘ All I know is that we 've signed him on a playing contract for four years and we 're delighted to have him back . |
| 15 | They were infected by the ideas of the Enlightenment and were ready to welcome the Napoleonic soldiers and administrators who incorporated the Slovene lands into the Illyrian Provinces in 1809 for a brief , but fateful sojourn of four years . |
| 16 | Data to be published shortly draws on experiments including observations of Freddy , the dolphin that has been living off the Northumbrian coast for four years . |
| 17 | Anderson studied at George Watson 's Hospital , Edinburgh , from 1841 to 1848 , leaving to take up a legal apprenticeship for four years . |
| 18 | The difficulties encountered in negotiating all the necessary approvals , particularly the funding , for a scheme which departed from the norm of fair rent housing explain the exceptionally long period of four years that preceded commencement of the building contract . |
| 19 | ENGLAND edged to their first men 's home international title for four years when they snatched a dramatic 7–7 tie with Wales in the final match of the round-robin series at Hoylake yesterday . |
| 20 | ENGLAND swept aside defending champions Ireland at Hoylake yesterday to stay on course for their first men 's amateur Home International title for four years . |
| 21 | In this connection Björk et al reported that enalapril protected glomerular filtration rate more effectively than metoprolol in diabetic nephropathy after four years of follow up . |
| 22 | I 've been with my current boyfriend for four years and we have a daughter . |
| 23 | Introduce fixed-term Parliament of four years , with a known date for the next election , subject to an earlier election only if the government loses a special ‘ explicit ’ vote of no confidence . |
| 24 | Miroslav Stepan , former Communist Party secretary in Prague , was sentenced on Oct. 22 to 30 months ' imprisonment following confirmation by an appeal court of his July conviction on charges of abuse of power connected with the suppression of a Prague demonstration on Oct. 28 , 1988 ; a second charge relating to a January 1989 demonstration was referred back to the Prosecutor 's Office [ for his conviction and initial sentence of four years ' imprisonment see p. 37737 ] . |
| 25 | Several years ago they could offer mortgages at an interest rate of roughly 4% , fixed for an initial period of four years . |
| 26 | The sheer scale of military involvement was bound to place a major strain on her resources , and it was unlikely that a Japan that had been unable to achieve a Chinese surrender in four years when her military efforts were largely concentrated on that country would be able to secure a military victory now that many of her resources were diverted elsewhere . |
| 27 | ‘ That 's right , ’ replied the other Commando , ‘ If we had been screwed down by these Nazi bastards for four years , we would be doing more than pinching their boots . ’ |
| 28 | Allow 1.2m ( 4ft ) between the plants and expect them to reach full size in four years . |
| 29 | He taught at an inner London secondary school for four years but knew his future lay in acting . |
| 30 | and , and erm I put after leaving Needham Market School , I won a scholarship to Stowmarket Secondary School for four years . |