Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [art] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | 341 companies changed their auditor during the four years the study covers ; 60% of these involved a change of tier . |
| 2 | Students taking a single subject degree course , study their degree subject throughout all four years and study other supporting subjects in addition during the earlier years . |
| 3 | ‘ I would also like to thank Renault , Elf and the team 's sponsors for their support during the two years I have worked with them . |
| 4 | A source of constant support during the lean years was his wife Margaret Plant , known as Meg , whom he married in 1960 . |
| 5 | Payments terminated on 31 May 1753 , but evidently no ill feeling marred the end of Miller 's contract as a few years later he dedicated to the Duke the beautiful Figures of Plants ( 2 vols. ) which had been published in parts from 1755–60 . |
| 6 | Encouraged by the long minority of the new Stadtholder it helped to influence Dutch policy in a pro-French and anti-British direction during the Seven Years War ( the Orange family , now closely associated by marriage with that of Hanover , was generally pro-British in outlook ) . |
| 7 | Increasing numbers of women went to cheap matinees at the cinema during the inter-war years , where 70 per cent of the weekly audiences in London comprised women and girls , and by 1939 the number of wirelesses had increased from 200,000 in 1923 to over 8.5 million . |
| 8 | The major areas of increased provision during the four years are illustrated in Figure 7.2 . |
| 9 | that there have n't been any forces of change for a thousand years . |
| 10 | ‘ After the Smiths I had been playing the guitar for a few years and I was listening to things like Aztec Camera and Orange Juice . |
| 11 | Three years later , during the carnival of 1645 , John Evelyn saw Ercole in Lidia by Monteverdi 's pupil and successor at St. Mark 's , Giovanni Rovetta ( C. 1596–1668 ) , at the Teatro Novissimo , with ‘ variety of sceanes painted and contrived with no lesse art of perspective , and machines for flying in the aire , and other wonderfull motions … one of the most magnificent and expensive diversions the wit of man can invent ’ ; and the San Cassiano had a chorus for a few years . |
| 12 | Now actually Mill did put the his erm this proposal forward , he was a member of parliament for a few years and he was trying to get this discussed in parliament . |
| 13 | His cottages at Blaize Hamlet blazed a trail for a hundred years . |
| 14 | The responsibilities of the two departments were to be as follows : the education authorities who operated a service under the 1910 Act had to confine themselves to ‘ interviewing , advising , registering and selecting juvenile applicants ’ , while the labour exchanges would ‘ register vacancies , place juveniles with employers and oversee their progress during the early years of employment ’ . |
| 15 | These stress the importance of family relationships and upbringing during the early years , and conclude that anti-social , and by implication criminal , behaviour results from faulty personality development . |
| 16 | TESL was run as an alternative methods course for a few years , until TEFL/TESL became a combined methods course in 1986 . |
| 17 | I think my father used to work in a university for a few years after he graduated , and he might have invented something ; he occasionally hints that he gets some sort of royalty from a patent or something , but I suspect the old hippy survives on whatever family wealth the Cauldhames still have secreted away . |
| 18 | After she had finished midwifery and two years as a Benedict 's junior sister she had joined the Royal Navy as a nursing sister for a few years . |
| 19 | No-one was more anti-populist than Charles Leslie , admittedly a rather extreme Tory , but whose Rehearsal was nevertheless a powerful vehicle for the propagation of Tory ideology for the middle years of Anne 's reign . |
| 20 | Far below London in size came the provincial capitals , the cities of Norwich , Bristol , York , Exeter , Newcastle upon Tyne and perhaps Salisbury and Coventry , each of which began to recover from the doldrums of the late-medieval recession during the middle years of Elizabeth 's reign . |
| 21 | They would rather continue earning this money for a few years with the hope of becoming financially independent , thus broadening their options and opportunities . |
| 22 | The first cultivators in Africa , as in all parts of the world , would farm a field for a few years and then , when its fertility began to drop , move on to an adjacent , or occasionally distant , area where high yields could be maintained for a similar period . |
| 23 | The monitoring and evaluation completes the course of action for that year ; it also begins to produce fresh information on which to base action for the following years , and so the cycle can begin again . |
| 24 | One of the sad side-effects of industrial action during the early years of the implementation of ISS has been that work on improving the teacher-parent partnership has been more neglected by teachers than anyone initially expected . |
| 25 | The Central Committee believes that the implementation of its programme for the five years can help create the conditions for real peace — reconciliation , harmony , well-being , mutual respect , a sense of community and inter-dependence . |
| 26 | six hundred pounds , the pitch fees about seven hundred pounds , bowls club pay us three hundred and fifty pounds , the tennis club for the two years , subscriptions will be twelve hundred pounds , the fair three hundred and fifty pound for two visits , erm one hundred and seventy five each visit , and the rugby club will pay us about three hundred pounds for the use of the pitch on ground . |
| 27 | In general those rural areas experiencing persistent loss during the inter-war years were the uplands and other remote places ( which in a generation or so would experience a surprising resurgence ) ; in contrast , persistent increases occurred in rural places adjacent to the large urban areas . |
| 28 | The focus of the project is the social and economic history of Aleppo between the latter years of the Ottoman Empire in 1918 and the creation of the United Arab Republic of Egypt and Syria in 1958 . |
| 29 | We shall have to live with it , because er I I do n't think that any hope of any redress next year , but the got to be established of a different system , of me a different methodology for the foreseeable years , if we 're going to get those schemes through that you supported wholeheartedly and congratulated us and for bringing forward the new road schemes for er the that that that that you so approved so warmly yesterday . |
| 30 | Additionally , if you have received treatment or advice for a medical condition during the 2 years before taking up the Hospital Income Plan , your cover for the condition commences after you have been insured for 24 months or if you are admitted to hospital for that condition during this period then as soon after the 24 months as you have been free of in-patient treatment for 12 months . |