Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [prep] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Man , I 've been worrying about that for fifteen years ! ’ exclaims Bryan . |
| 2 | My Lord the only point of interest and it 's really one that I took in the of the submission is that if you use an up to date nineteen ninety three figure for calculating it when it was first back to years three and a half , two and a half and one and a half years ago , then intre it would n't be fair if interest is awarded on that as well because in a sense the increase in the figure that inflation and the increased cost of living has produced because you use an up to date figure , probably equates with the interest and we can the figure an up to date one to avoid just that otherwise it would be getting the figures for each of those years and then working out interest . |
| 3 | For each of these years our members have enjoyed the good value offered by Homecover in price and cover . |
| 4 | To make this possible it is easy to add a table showing the balance for each of 25 years . |
| 5 | They 've had nothing to do with each other for damn near twenty years . |
| 6 | But they did agree to disagree about the how and why of storytelling and , as Ms Sontag concluded , ‘ We are going to go on talking about this for many years but now , alas , we have to stop ’ . |
| 7 | You may wince at the ‘ blurbs ’ at the top of features today but how about this from 40 years ago : ‘ A new feature called ‘ Argument ’ — a spontaneous tape-recorded discussion by leading personalities on a topic of the moment faithfully transcribed by assistant editor Jack Baverstock . ’ |
| 8 | I was questioned about this in recent years when I visited the Camp during one of my lecture rounds to the ATC in the Highlands , but I only add this yarn to illustrate that it takes all kinds to make any air force station , and I am sure our childrens ' children will be told and the tale will no doubt be embroidered to suit the occasion . |
| 9 | Whenever he thought about this in later years , his memory would go back to the Cuddesdon time and the shock of seeing a House of Commons pretending that it knew how people ought to say their prayers . |
| 10 | Ralph Williams is just 39 and for 30 of those years , he 's bought every ancient tractor or old machine he could get his hands on . |
| 11 | The same spoon had been used for this for many years and was burnt black . |
| 12 | Laurence McGarry , chairman of Scottish Innovation , said : ‘ We have hoped and worked for this for many years and without the support and assistance from a whole range of people , it would not have happened . |
| 13 | There is evidence to show that after six to seven years of an immersion program , productive use of the second language still differs considerably in grammatical and lexical ways from that of native speakers . |
| 14 | He ran out of money and had to sell off 40% of his company , and only after six to seven years and scores of design failures did he finally begin to make some money from his enterprise . |
| 15 | When smokers give up , their risk of getting lung cancer starts decreasing so that after 10 to 15 years an ex-smoker 's risk is only slightly greater than that of someone who has never smoked [ 6 ] . |
| 16 | The vinyl may harden and crack after 10 to 15 years , but until then the bed will be just as comfortable as the day you bought it . |
| 17 | And the risk is high , as permits are often refused or issued only after three to five years of arduous negotiation . |
| 18 | In 1987 , 9.3 per cent of those who divorced had only lasted one to two years of marriage ; 28.6 per cent of those divorced did so after five to nine years of marriage . |
| 19 | Coastal marshes , the controversial targets of environmentally destructive drainage proposals throughout the 1970s and 1980s , are also proving in many places to be simply undrainable , since , after five to ten years , soil can be subject to a process whereby the chemical bonding in the clay structure breaks down . |
| 20 | He expected it to become toll free after 15 to 20 years . |
| 21 | Positive action rather than positive discrimination is the approach , and that , these are targets not erm , contracts , and if after four to eight years , it may well be the case that women have been taken on and have left and at the end of the time , that there there is no woman chartered engineer . |
| 22 | However well you treat them , after two to three years these foliage begonias lose their compact appearance and look straggly . |
| 23 | After two to three years there , another signal prompts the now adult salmon to change hue again and return to fresh water to spawn . |
| 24 | For people who become disabled when they are young adults or when middle-aged , the first 10 to 15 years are usually marked by a steady increase in satisfaction levels , followed by declining satisfaction after 20 to 30 years ( Zarb et al . , |
| 25 | These were removed eventually but for anyone planting now , the up to date method is to use a specially developed tube which protects from animal damage and provides a unique microclimate which breaks down harmlessly after seven to eight years . |
| 26 | There 's ones for six to twelve years , they 're like big or there 's , they look like real small |
| 27 | Peter Whitehouse , Devonport 's business development director , said a costly and detailed analysis had shown Rosyth could win enough tanker work to provide more than 1,000 jobs for six to seven years initially . |
| 28 | Allocate the first round of new nursing posts towards the target of 7,000 in two years . |
| 29 | However even for male university graduates in large firms there is the prospect of retirement at the relatively early age of 55 although there has been pressure from the Ministry of Labour in recent years for this to be raised . |
| 30 | By 1800 the only females were girls of eleven to sixteen years picking coal at the surface for 6d ( 2½p ) a day . |