Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [prep] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was lucky to move on from Manchester City Art Galleries where after seventeen years I ended up as Senior Keeper of Fine Art . |
| 2 | perhaps in six months or in sixty years erm facing the same kind of problem again er I , I can erm I have close experience with a situation on my , on my own patch which rises from time to time an and is most unpleasant for the people in and it goes back if I might say so an and therefore the planning considerations that have been mentioned need to be paid attention to . |
| 3 | Family , friends and grandchildren must take the place of the employing organizations that for many years conferred identity , values and status . |
| 4 | It may not sound like much but it means we can buy substantially fewer new books than in previous years |
| 5 | Diagnosis influenced survival both at three months and at two years ( table IV ) . |
| 6 | c ) If such notice is given or the employment is so terminated after 15 months and within 2 years , the repayment will be one quarter of the amount . |
| 7 | Many have been homeless , not just for the past six months but for several years and they have been pushed from pillar to post within that area . |
| 8 | If that power was sufficient , the holy spirit , if that power was sufficient to raise Christ from the dead , you not think he 's able to exert that power in your life and in my life to make us live lives that are pleasing to God , of course it is so we do n't do it ourselves , just let me in closing mention one other thing , this relationship we have needs to be maintained , you know for any relationship to grow , one needs to spend time with the other person , I do n't give a lot of credence to the saying that absence makes the heart grow fonder , it does with somebody else , it 's true , it does not make it grow fonder of that person the person is you know who you , you heard this story so often , like particularly like going back during the last war , folk who were separated sometimes for , for , not just for months but for several years , there they were in concentration camps perhaps , in prisoner of war camps , separated for years , they come back home they 've got to get to know each other all over again you see that a relationship on a human level as well as in our relationship with God is dependent on , on association , it 's dependent on companionship , it 's dependent on spending time with the other person and in our relationship with Christ this is achieved by , by prayer , by knowing and understanding God 's word , by having fellowship with other Christians and fellowship with other Christians is not just meeting them and passing the time of day with them , oh that 's fellowship but it 's far more than that is required , there 's the fellowship in worship , we worship together , of course I can worship God at home of course I can do it , so can you do it and we , we should do it , but there 's that re , there 's that need , that requirement as God 's people we come together to worship him in a corporate act , in the sacraments , in , as we mentioned in , in earlier on in taking the bread and the wine and remembering the lords death , there 's a sense in which I can do it by myself |
| 9 | Some small captives become pets but within five years they are potentially dangerous and have to be put behind bars . |
| 10 | There were apparently no immediate takers as for some years Charles continued to run Eastington 's three mills , but now in conjunction with Beards and Bonds Mills , just outside the parish . |
| 11 | One problem was immediately clear : nearly all the large shops have contracts with waste paper merchants or waste disposal companies and for some years , at least , it would be necessary to collect the waste from the contractors , not the shops . |
| 12 | The shop 's three glass doors and old-fashioned set of windows were all adorned with window boxes and hanging baskets and for several years it won a Bath Festival award for the best floral shop facade in the City . |
| 13 | All farms have rats and mice but in recent years they have been coming through from the barn into the house and getting into the furniture . |
| 14 | Protein , index and pedigree ruled the day at the fifth Hayleys Invitational Sale in Essex last week , with breeders failing to dig as deeply into their pockets as in previous years . |
| 15 | After a five-hour trial Bao was sentenced by the People 's Intermediate Court to five years ' imprisonment for " inciting " counter-revolutionary activities and to four years for " divulging state secrets " . |
| 16 | New applicants wishing to apply for these vouchers should write to Her Majesty 's Representative , The Ascot Office , St James 's Palace , SW1A 1BP , before 31st March , stating the full name of those members of their family who require vouchers , together with their ages if between 16–25 years . |
| 17 | Previous holders of Royal Enclosure vouchers should apply in writing in the usual way before the end of April , stating their full names and ages if between 16–25 years , who have not been granted Royal Enclosure vouchers previously . |
| 18 | Nor does a term cease to be a leasehold because it is determinable by an event which may happen , or which is certain to happen , within the term — e.g. if A holds land for 99 years or for 999 years , ‘ if he shall so long live ’ , he is still a leaseholder , though it is nearly or quite certain that he will not outlive the term . |
| 19 | The question is then do we use up more future benefit in the earlier years than in later years ? |
| 20 | That was the case throughout my pre-war playing days and for many years afterwards . |
| 21 | But recent research shows that the ‘ constant ’ changes by a fraction of a per cent , both over a period of weeks and over several years . |
| 22 | From 1985 he began evening classes and within three years had passed two O-levels and two A-levels . |
| 23 | What has proved to be a thorny problem , not just during the past four years but for many years before , is the basis for financing all the services provided by local authorities and the level of services that should be provided . |
| 24 | Gabriel Cleary , James Doherty and James Coll , all from the Republic of Ireland and all IRA members , received five-year sentences , and Henry Cairns , who had co-operated with the French authorities , also received five years but with two years suspended . |
| 25 | A former schoolteacher and the wife of a Magee College lecturer , she was of pronounced left-wing sympathies and in later years she became Bernadette Devlin 's secretary in London . |
| 26 | The former approach has been the classical one , dating from the early statistical models of rubber elasticity based on random walk theory ; the latter has been followed by the rheologists , those who study solution properties and in recent years developed in new directions by de Gennes and Edwards and their collaborators . |
| 27 | He exhibits protecting and guarding qualities and for many years has been used as a Schutzhund sport dog . |
| 28 | Birds respond to a wide range of sounds but for many years it was assumed that their low-frequency hearing was poorer than ours . |
| 29 | May be she did not do as well in the major championships as in previous years but in 1990 she still managed to win one Australian , get in to the final of the French and the US Opens , and the semi final of Wimbledon . |
| 30 | limited ( third party ) ( 1991 ) policy did not provide indemnity of survey carried out by nominated person not holding professional qualifications or with 5 years experience and supervised by professionally qualified person . |