Example sentences of "[noun sg] of a [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | A ten thousand pounds reward has been offered to help catch the killer of a seventy year old pensioner . |
| 2 | A reward of six hundred and fifty pounds is being offered to help track down the killer of a seventy-six year old man . |
| 3 | • This 33 lb 12 oz pike was the result of a two year campaign at a Nottinghamshire gravel pit by Mansfield miner David Dare . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | His spoken English was perfect , as was his comprehension , the result of a few years at Oxford studying languages — four in all . |
| 7 | 29 year old Steven Mynott was sentenced to life in 1980 for the murder of a 54 year old man . |
| 8 | He had gone there expecting ‘ to suffer the tedium of a few years living in the backveld , in order to make some very necessary repairs to the fortunes of myself and my small family ’ but found that ‘ against all expectations I had wandered into a bewilderingly interesting , exciting and varied World ’ . |
| 9 | As one of the first members recalled , ‘ When we reached thirteen most of us felt we were too big for the Sunday School , and there was a gap of a few years until we were able to join the YMCA at seventeen … |
| 10 | Because I think it was Tommy that said it was really after the one finished and there was nothing else round about that there was a gap of a few years and then you got started again here . |
| 11 | Led by lively frontman Steven Tyler , the band have enjoyed a remarkable resurgence in recent years thanks to the mega-selling ‘ Pump ’ album of a few years back and several hit singles , including ‘ Rag Doll ’ , ‘ Love In An Elevator ’ , ‘ Janie 's Got A Gun ’ and ‘ Livin' On The Edge ’ . |
| 12 | A quick spin of his ‘ Sweet Freedom — The Best Of ’ compilation album of a few years back is proof enough that he has had many hits in his home patch without making similar in-roads here . |
| 13 | At this breaking of day and at this dawning of a new year may we have the courage to put our hands into the hand of God . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | But not many people this century , even during the boom of a few years ago ( when Tory ministers still bragged about the ‘ sea change ’ that had supposedly taken place in the British economy ) , have ever seriously thought of the UK as a ‘ land of opportunity ’ . |
| 16 | Started in 1854 Woodchester Mansion was the brainchild of a 21 year old architect who apparently spent all his patron 's money . |
| 17 | The Palings was an old building ; it had stood full face to the sea and the prevailing wind for the best part of a hundred years . |
| 18 | He first became a builder in 1953 , in Communist Czechoslovakia , after being released from three years ' working in the uranium mines of Jachymov as part of a five year prison sentence for political offences . |
| 19 | This survey was part of a two year research project on adults doing science , mathematics or engineering courses in further and higher education funded by the Scottish Office Education Department . |
| 20 | This protectionism is based upon part of a 20 year old agreement called the Lomé Convention . |
| 21 | The building of a replacement for this historic one hundred and fourteen year old hospital is part of an eight year grand plan which will also see the upgrading and expansion of the Western General and St Johns Hospital in Livingston . |
| 22 | You can also ease initial strain on your cashflow by taking advantage of a two year ‘ capital repayment holiday ’ , during which you only pay interest on the loan and make no capital repayments . |
| 23 | By the time they reach the age and salary level of a first year graduate chartered accountant trainee , they are already working in ‘ semi-senior positions ’ and contributing to the firm while still training . |
| 24 | And that , and that was a bit of a all year so that 's , that passed . |
| 25 | Yeah but , no but you think how many yeah but you think how many entries go in my book during the course of a normal year . |
| 26 | In the course of a few years Hider had managed to undo a thousand-year-long German expansion eastwards . |
| 27 | Describes the great changes that have come over this locality in the course of a few years . |
| 28 | Initially , the newly nationalized school system expanded very rapidly , with enrolments doubling in the course of a few years . |
| 29 | When the Crown lands had become private property , they would , in the course of a few years , become well improved and well cultivated . ’ |
| 30 | During the course of a single year I will use upwards of one thousand Biros , yet I have never actually worn one out . |