Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [num] years [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 and erm , you know , they spend it on the six of them pocket money for sixteen years it all of them have left school now
2 If you change the term to 10 years you will discover two things : first the column of results is n't wide enough and second , after increasing the column width , you find that the final amount is £1,638 including £438 interest and the earnings ratio is more than double , at 36.57% .
3 While they had shared championship success when they had first met , after a split of four years it was their second era together that brought the ultimate honour for them both — the 1987 Open Championship title .
4 In the course of fifteen years I have slowly worked my way up from the people , together with this Movement .
5 Within that two years , any time within that two years you can basically be given the sack for not coming up to the grade or not coming up to scratch or sometimes they prolong your pr probation for another six months so instead of being a probationer constable for two years you 're a probationer constable for two and a half years .
6 Having been confined to a wheelchair for 18 years I had been in similar situations to this .
7 I mean for instance on the question of identification after 45 years it 's very difficult , I saw that in the Demianuk trial , to get satisfactory er evidence , but of course er I think British rules of evidence probably would simply mean it was excluded if that was the case , and it was fairly done and the law were n't changed and it was the law as it stands er then I 'd be in favour of it .
8 Being with the band for 12 years you might think that Marlene would get fed up with their music .
9 ‘ If they ca n't get the NHS right after 13 years they never will , ’ he said .
10 I was subsequently paid to fly by the RAF ; after a lapse of 33 years I returned to the skies five years ago , when I could finally afford a share in a Cherokee which I now fly regularly from Ludham .
11 Over a period of nine years it has become clear that the breeders referred to in the cup of that name do not include those operating on this side of the pond .
12 While this study is limited to one university and deals with a relatively small intake of mature students over a period of six years it does demonstrate that non-standard entry mature students can do particularly well when compared with other students .
13 Over a period of fifteen years he noted that not only were the ridge and furrow patterns of each individual 's prints unique , but that they never changed .
14 Barnard inherited a large fortune from his father : over a period of fifty years he devoted himself to the formation of a collection of prints , drawings , and paintings , becoming one of the foremost connoisseurs of his day .
15 But levied over a period of three years it brought in about £80,000 and became the prototype for later subsidies .
16 The government announced on Nov. 26 that over a period of three years it intended to cut 122,000 government jobs — approximately one fifth of state employees — at an estimated saving to the state of the equivalent of US$1,500 million .
17 In a period of ten years he recorded at least thirty proven cases of clairvoyance between himself , or his wife , and a horse .
18 Over a period of twenty years it is claimed that a fast reactor could breed enough additional plutonium to fuel another similar power station .
19 According to bogus sexologist Dr John R Brinkley , goat glands held the secret to combating male impotence and over a period of twenty years he amassed a fortune of more than $12 million administering them to 16,000 men worried about their sexual inadequacies .
20 Your lust for her knew no bounds and when this loyal woman spurned you for her husband of twenty years you wreaked a terrible revenge ! ’
21 Every month for four years they met in Melbourne to stuff the magazines into envelopes for Australian subscribers .
22 As a result , artists feel that if they have parted company with their manager after three years it is unfair if their previous manager continues to take commission on album sales for another seven years .
23 After the age of 5 years it is suggested that language increasingly becomes a tool for higher intellectual functions and therefore is difficult to assess independently of other cognitive processes .
24 There is also considerable evidence ( as marshalled by Ingram 1975 ) to suggest that up to the age of six years it is mainly short , simple but still hierarchically structured sentences that the child is able to produce .
25 As the mature version of deep slow wave sleep develops in the first year of life , and daytime sleeping is displaced by wakefulness , the number of hours spent in active ( REM ) sleep is eroded until by the age of three years it has dropped from twelve hours to three or four .
26 After suffering bulimia for 15 years she sought help because her children were beginning to comment on her abnormal eating habits .
27 I saw my first reed bunting 's nest in 1964 in the marsh between the lochs of Spiggie and Brow , and now in the space of twenty-five years they have successfully colonised the islands , and theirs is the only bunting song that today 's Shetland children will know …
28 If a viable product is not produced in a total of three years it is felt that the project should be abandoned since the technology in use will have been superseded and a competitive product is likely to be nearing launch .
29 If a viable product is not produced in a total of three years it is felt that the project should be abandoned since the technology in use will have been superseded and a competitive product is likely to be nearing launch .
30 After remaining in the colony for seven years they can apply for a CI which is a more widely recognised travel document and enables them to become British Dependent Territory Citizens .
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