Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] a [num] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bureau was established at the University of Warwick on 1 September 1983 with a contract for a four year period in the first instance . |
| 2 | As for the industry 's registered dock labour force , the Government made provision for a three year redundancy scheme , jointly financed by the Government and the employer of any dockers who were ‘ surplus to requirements ’ . |
| 3 | that there have n't been any forces of change for a thousand years . |
| 4 | His cottages at Blaize Hamlet blazed a trail for a hundred years . |
| 5 | DSM is currently providing scientific and financial support for a five year project concentrating mainly on the painting techniques of Rembrandt . |
| 6 | A team of researchers at Aberdeen University have received support for a three year study of Scottish soccer fan behaviour . |
| 7 | Was that good money for a fourteen year old ? |
| 8 | Is Jobson really 30 years old ? 2 million quid seems an awful lot of money for a 30 year old , although I would like to see us buy a really top class centre back . |
| 9 | W , writes from : YOU recently published an Inspector Morse story about a nine year old Metro car which took only unleaded petrol . |
| 10 | For two years he taught at the University of Texas at Austin , and directed the Michener Collection there , before enlisting in the U.S. Naval Reserve for a four year stint . |
| 11 | Mr. Leonard Coote was elected President of the Association for a two year term at the Biennial Delegate Conference in succession to Mr. Andy Heffernan . |
| 12 | The Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Scheme was set up to enable social scientists , who have obtained a doctorate , to work full-time on original and independent research for a three year period . |
| 13 | The Postdoctoral Research Fellowshop Scheme was set up to enable social scientists , who have obtained a doctorate , to work full-time on original and independent research for a three year period . |
| 14 | It has been a major political and cultural force for a hundred years . |
| 15 | It was the persuasion of the Vice Society that led Lord Chancellor Campbell to push through the Obscene Publications Act of 1857 , an Act which was to remain in force for a hundred years , and this was followed by the establishment of the first ( and short-lived ) Obscene Publications police squad in London . |
| 16 | ‘ We have managed to get our reserves into a better class of football after a six year campaign . |
| 17 | A ten thousand pounds reward has been offered to help catch the killer of a seventy year old pensioner . |
| 18 | A reward of six hundred and fifty pounds is being offered to help track down the killer of a seventy-six year old man . |
| 19 | • This 33 lb 12 oz pike was the result of a two year campaign at a Nottinghamshire gravel pit by Mansfield miner David Dare . |
| 20 | The new set of ‘ guiding principles ’ are the result of a three year accident programme , begun in 1988 , to strengthen national and international policies in this area . |
| 21 | The report , the result of a three year survey and third in a series named Seabirds at Sea , found that more than half of the world 's total number of breeding pairs of Manx shearwater , puffin , gannet and black guillemot live off the west coast of Scotland and in the Irish Sea . |
| 22 | 29 year old Steven Mynott was sentenced to life in 1980 for the murder of a 54 year old man . |
| 23 | Other combinations of hotel and catering craft or supervisory qualifications and experience ( such as successful completion of a two year full-time craft course plus one year 's appropriate experience ) . |
| 24 | Started in 1854 Woodchester Mansion was the brainchild of a 21 year old architect who apparently spent all his patron 's money . |
| 25 | To re-finance ourselves in order to finish the task , we arranged a Flexible Businessloan with a two year capital repayment holiday which gave us the breathing space we needed . |
| 26 | The girl was referred to our department with a two year history of panic attacks . |
| 27 | The magistrates were told that from Febrary this year , until early September , he 'd been caught shoplifting , he 'd attacked police , kicked a police car , stolen a handbag from a 70 year old woman who was now afraid to go out , and caused criminal damage . |
| 28 | The result over a two year period is a range of display material that has been exclusively designed and manufactured , and is now available to retailers throughout the country . |
| 29 | Formol saline fixed , paraffin embedded Crosby capsule jejunal biopsy specimens were collected by reviewing the archives of the Royal Infirmary Pathology Department over a five year period . |
| 30 | Manning , unemployed , of High Street , Standish , Wigan , admitted raping three women and assaulting two of them causing actual bodily harm over a five year period . |