Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [adj] years [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is the Prime Minister aware that doctors working in the health service have said today that his promise to cut waiting lists to two years can be achieved only if desperately ill patients sacrifice their beds to less serious cases who have waited longer ? |
| 2 | Renewals for further periods of three years will not be unreasonably refused where the Data has been incorporated into composite works which the Licensee wishes to maintain . ’ |
| 3 | Any one application must not exceed £1,000 and a maximum of three applications in three years can be made . |
| 4 | It 's urgent , inspirational talk , founded on the belief that the problems of 300 years must be tackled now , before the new Europe locks bad old constitutional bargains into place . |
| 5 | Collins says of Wilkinson : ‘ Any man who wins two championships in three years must be good — he certainly ca n't be bad ! ’ |
| 6 | Analysis of accidents involving bus passengers in future years will be undertaken . |
| 7 | Names on open years would , on payment of a premium meant to reflect commercial conditions , be granted unlimited cover for future liabilities . |
| 8 | The Court had come to the conclusion , making allowance for the fact that both men had had to face the prospect of punishment twice , that sentences of three years should be substituted for the sentences imposed . |
| 9 | Doubtless the Court was influenced by the fact that though the risk to employees may well have been minimal ( and two accidents in two years would suggest that that was not so ) the consequences of any such risk materialising were potentially serious and , indeed , in one instance had been fatal . |
| 10 | The history of my birth is unclear because NHS records have now been lost , so doctors in later years could only guess at the cause of my disability which became evident a few week after I was born . |
| 11 | Between 1950–60 the race was included in the World Drivers ' Championship , and full results for those years can be found in the Grand Prix section , pages 12–25 . |
| 12 | Local authorities will continue to be responsible for adult education provision , both vocational and leisure/cultural activities , but all courses for 16–19 years will be the responsibility of FEFCs through the colleges . |
| 13 | Historians have disagreed concerning how far the legislative record of the Radical-led but CEDA-manipulated administrations of these years should be regarded as deliberately undoing the work of 1931–3 in the religious , educational , regional , labour and agrarian spheres . |
| 14 | In 1990 , men aged 65 years could expect to spend around six months of their 14.2 years of remaining life expectancy in residential care ; for women of the same age this figure was 1.1 remaining years , an amount greater both absolutely and as a proportion of total remaining life expectancy ( table III ) . |
| 15 | Corresponding amounts for preceding years should be restated where applicable . |
| 16 | For example , checking stock records for previous years can help the retailer see when to increase stocks of swimwear ( spring and early summer ) and when to let them run down ( winter ) . |
| 17 | Since they involve the same Ernst equation , it is clear that all the solution generating techniques that have been developed for stationary axisymmetric space-times in recent years can also be applied to colliding plane wave situations . |
| 18 | One of the most significant trends in recent years may prove to be the growth of religious consciousness in the West . |