Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [adj] years [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One can tell whether a profit has been made in the period in question but it is necessary to have the results of several years trading , ideally together with several years forecasts , to form a judgement on the operating conditions , that is whether results are improving , stable or deteriorating . |
| 2 | One can tell whether a profit has been made in the period in question but it is necessary to have the results of several years trading , ideally together with several years forecasts , to form a judgement on the operating conditions , that is whether results are improving , stable or deteriorating . |
| 3 | AND the 200grand or so from last years league position … |
| 4 | AND the 200grand or so from last years league position … |
| 5 | In AD 699 , Wilfrid , Bishop of York , built several churches all dedicated to St Andrew , so in later years Hutton Cranswick was rededicated to St Peter . |
| 6 | So in ten years time you would have a maturity of X number of pounds |
| 7 | Well here 's to a festive crimble — defeats for the Scum and wins for the whites — especially on New Years day . |
| 8 | took over as engineering manager at the beginning of 1992 from and should be congratulated not only on 25 years service , but also on the success of his new job , particularly in regard to safety . |
| 9 | Most of these liabilities er inevitably are n't necessarily for pensions payments they 're back to the active members , some of whom wo n't make any actual claim on this possibly for thirty years time , so there could well be a er a a scheme which is arrived at which is a pay as you go , which is n't any great liability o on , on any one pension scheme at any particular moment in time . |
| 10 | Thanks to a growing body of business writers , executives are only too aware that , like it or not , they have the dubious privilege of being alive during a once in 200 years revolution that is transforming the business world . |
| 11 | For nigh on fifty years Penicillium had been useless . |
| 12 | X 's secretary , formerly for eight years secretary to Judge now of the European Court of Justice and formerly an advocate who lives just along , came with me to see get the Royal Bank/Univ Alumnus of the Year Award on Saturday . |
| 13 | At constant prices accounting for price movements , this represents a 7.6% increase , comparing favourably with last years increase of 1.6% . |
| 14 | Now if I 'm the fund manager and you 've got ta deferred member , nobody 's gon na waste thirty years for me to pay up their pension , I wo n't be here probably in thirty years time er so they want the money up front . |
| 15 | You might think the only safe course is straightforward , sound , economic government and you might wonder therefore why so rarely in recent years Governments have practised it , except when they have been hit over the head by external forces and events that they could n't resist . |
| 16 | Now after seven years separation I have come to see my family . |
| 17 | In contrast to the U.K. Home Market , where consumer expenditure has been curtailed , Export Sales have risen substantially on last years figures . |
| 18 | It 's been re-opened today after 2 years renovation and the new tenants will be paying £15,000 this year alone . |
| 19 | We should n't just think we 're not going to be here in two years time , it 's somebody else 's problem , they 'll take over our debts . |
| 20 | Things like employment and education are incredibly important , but if you are n't here in 40 years time what 's the point anyway ? |
| 21 | ‘ Maybe in 10 years time the public wo n't mind a man who does n't live with his wife having such an important religious role . |
| 22 | Maybe in forty years time , people will be looking back at the good old days of the Nineties to see which rising stars started their careers playing North-East venues . |
| 23 | If the trainers each encourage a similar pattern of professional practice , in-service training and working arrangements , then in five years time a national pattern will emerge so that clients and interpreters can have recognised expectations . |
| 24 | Yet for many years gerontologists , in the many disciplines that make up gerontology , have been arguing that the gloom is overstressed , that future prospects need not be so bad as is often suggested . |
| 25 | So we 've got this group of people who are and just retired , they 're sixty-five and have just retired , and they 're looking forward to their pension le lo losing completely in two-and-a-half years time unless something 's done about it . |
| 26 | The linguist will predictably return again in ten years time with a new philosopher 's stone , a true theory of the mind and meaning . |
| 27 | A yacht that won the world 's toughest race will defend its title when the competition is held again in three years time . |
| 28 | Certainly in recent years Pound 's interest in mystery-cults has been more than antiquarian ; in ‘ was Erigena ours ? ’ he asks whether the philosopher Scotus Erigena was one of the Eleusinian brotherhood , and ‘ ours ’ can be given full weight — Noel Stock goes so far as to claim ( op. cit. p.22 ) that some of the obscurity of these later Cantos is deliberate and arcane — ‘ he writes about them as an initiate in words that are both ‘ published and not published ’ … ’ . |