Example sentences of "[prep] [num] years [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the room they had shared for 30 years since they had moved in to claim his inheritance . |
| 2 | I 'd been paying tax and national insurance for 12 years before I found myself having to make a claim and if I 'd been putting the money in a building society I 'd have had a lot more than I eventually got out of them . ’ |
| 3 | Yes erm because I doubt it , erm at the moment with the fund that we 're talking about the erm the close scheme , because most of these people in B T were originally erm in the Post Office , and of course when the they split erm then the erm Post Office workers went over to B T , they get a B T pension but in actual fact they paid into a pension scheme erm for many of them for forty years because they come into that age group , where so many people , you took a job when you were twenty o or or sixteen and you stayed with it for life , you did n't chop and change like people do these days and the majority of our members erm we can go down and I would say the vast majority of our members have actually worked for the Post Office or starting with the Post Office and then B T or staying with the Post Office for forty years , there 's no end of them they 've got in there forty years service . |
| 4 | From just 25p a day , you can help protect your dependents against the crippling financial penalty of losing a parent or partner — and secure yourself a cash payout … at the age of 65 if you 're aged between 18 and 54 when cover commences , or after ten years if you 're aged between 55 and 69 . |
| 5 | The trouble was that after they were born , children had to wait for six years before they could be sent to school and forgotten for most of the day . |
| 6 | All required records must be preserved for three years if it is a private company or for six years if it is a public one . |
| 7 | In another case , a director of an investment company was disqualified for 10 years and his co-director for six years because they had caused the company to continue trading while insolvent , had transferred assets to other companies which subsequently failed , and had been seriously negligent . |
| 8 | She lay derelict for 10 years before she was restored for the Museum in 1988 . |
| 9 | My first real exhibition was at the Hanover Gallery in 1955 and it was n't a great success commercially very little was sold so there was an interval of eight years before I had another . |
| 10 | Adding to his work of 30 years before he proved Galois ' assertion that if a finite group G contains pm elements , p being a prime , when G contains a subgroup of order p . |
| 11 | There may be a latent period of 30 years before it actually erupts . |
| 12 | CHAMPION golfer Fred Couples has walked out on his wife of 12 years because she embarrassed him by dancing on a table , friends claimed last night . |
| 13 | Thus , where landlords were entitled to determine a twenty-one year lease " at the expiration of fourteen years if they shall require the premises for the purposes of a business carried on by them " it was held to be sufficient for them to show that they would need at least part of the premises before the date on which the lease would otherwise have expired by effluxion of time ( Parkinson v Barclays Bank Ltd [ 1951 ] 1 KB 368 ) . |
| 14 | She still had n't got over the shock of seeing David Markham again ; it must be … she did a rapid calculation in her head … all of five years since he 'd walked out of their lives . |
| 15 | However , the group which had their first babies between 1950 and 1954 had a median of 9.7 years before they returned to paid employment . |
| 16 | Fulham will pay a low introductory rent for three years while they seek a partial redevelopment of the stadium . |
| 17 | My husband was banned for three years after he 'd killed me . ’ |
| 18 | On Monday , at Teesside Crown Court , Sigsworth was jailed for three years after he admitted causing grievous bodily harm with intent , wounding , assault causing actual bodily harm and two offences of burglary . |
| 19 | All required records must be preserved for three years if it is a private company or for six years if it is a public one . |
| 20 | THE Welsh Rugby Union has banned Neath from touring abroad for three years because they walked off the pitch in a pre-season friendly in France last August . |
| 21 | The answer is that they pursued the site owner monthly for three years until he agreed to sell the plot , seconds away from Hampstead Heath , then designed a five-bedroom house with 40ft outdoor pool and had it built . |
| 22 | Zimmerman was ambassador to Yugoslavia for three years until he was called home in May . |
| 23 | It was near twenty years since he had been here , and he had never , to his knowledge , so much as set eyes on any member of the surviving household . |
| 24 | Sheila worked at 97 Kingston on the cheese and butter counter from 1955 for 11 years until she left to start a family . |
| 25 | Smith and Jacobson ( 1988 ) report that expectation of life at birth for a male born in England and Wales in 1983/84 was 71.3 years compared with 69.9 years if he was born in Scotland . |
| 26 | Compared with five years before it was a raging torrent . |
| 27 | ‘ He ran the Mafia 's drug business in Britain for ten years until he was arrested in the mid-eighties . ’ |
| 28 | Formerly Associate Technical Director , he was with the Institute for 33 years until he retired four years ago |
| 29 | Hopper thought he was another Dean , and then became outcast from Hollywood within three years because he acquired a reputation for being a mean-like perfectionist . |
| 30 | Erwin even questions whether there is room for the mainframe in this scenario — ‘ If the mainframe 's price-performance relationship is the same in five years as it is now , it does n't stand a chance ’ . |