Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [prep] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | had had the opportunity for many years of looking at the question in its material phases , of appreciating its hygienic results … |
| 2 | The majority of financial years specified ended on 31 March 1991 . |
| 3 | The majority of financial years specified ended on 31 March 1991 . |
| 4 | Bock , owner of the Kempinski luxury hotels chain , will buy nearly half of Rowland 's 15 per cent stake worth £50 million with an option to buy the remainder in three years . |
| 5 | He recognized that , although she had worn the veil for several years , she had never made her monastic profession . |
| 6 | In other cases ( where the claim exceeds the statutory limit or after the expiry of 10 years ) claims are to be directed to the Government , which satisfies them out of moneys provided by Parliament . |
| 7 | A lease can be made for five years subject to the tenant 's right to determine if the war ends before the expiry of five years . |
| 8 | A lease can be made from year to year subject to a fetter on the right of the landlord to determine the lease before the expiry of five years unless the war ends . |
| 9 | Forty years Where a term of more than forty years is created the tenant may , after the expiry of twenty-five years of the term , apply to the court for the discharge of any restriction affecting the user of the demised property ( Law of Property Act 1925 , s84(12) ) . |
| 10 | Options will normally only be exercisable after the expiry of three years from the date of their grant by a person who remains a director or employee . |
| 11 | To prevent the proprietor sitting on his patent , deliberately failing to use it , section 48 of the Act allows any person to apply for a compulsory licence under the patent , after the expiry of three years if , for example , the patent is not being worked or some abuse is being made of the patent monopoly such as if the product is not being made available at reasonable terms . |
| 12 | All nine aircraft clattered away at full power down the ‘ deck ’ , with their nosewheels coming off the ground very quickly , in what was one of the most impressive set pieces seen by the writer in many years . |
| 13 | ‘ The fact that Business Post achieved the award within two years highlighted the high value management have placed on training and staff development in both the company and the franchises . |
| 14 | This Board was formed from two previous panels — Quantity Surveying and Estate Management — and he was a member or Chairman of the Board for twelve years , as well as being a member of the Committee for Science and Technology by virtue of his Board chairmanship . |
| 15 | Barbara not only acted as secretary to a succession of senior managers including Harold Worland and Raymond Anderson , she also carried out the secretarial work for the Board for many years . |
| 16 | How much more able to make that judgement were those colleagues who had already been on the board for seven years or more ? ’ |
| 17 | Colonel Wilkinson , who died in October 1900 , had been on the Board for 22 years . |
| 18 | No seat on the board in 10 years ' time ! ’ |
| 19 | Robert Johnson , Managing Director of Johnson Brothers , will retire from the Board after 34 years ' loyal and successful service with the Group . |
| 20 | De Graaff commuted the sentence to two years , and in actuality Sukarno was released on 15 December 1931 . |
| 21 | The Board 's general counsel , Michael Friend , said afterwards : ‘ The finding was that he did change his scorecard at the qualifying round for the European Tour School last October , but the Board felt the sentence of 10 years was too severe given that it was a first offence . ’ |
| 22 | As that course had not been taken , the sentence of three years ' detention took effect , by reason of Criminal Justice Act 1982 , 5.1B(S) as a sentence of 12 months ' detention , and the excess of the sentence over 12 months ' was remitted . |
| 23 | The court of military justice on May 5 confirmed the sentence of three years ' hard labour first passed in absentia in July 1983 against Gen. Saadeddine al-Shazli , the army chief of staff during the Arab-Israeli war of 1973 . |
| 24 | The longest determinate prison sentence ever upheld by English courts was the sentence of forty-five years ' imprisonment in the case of Hindawi ( 1988 ) , a man who sent his pregnant girlfriend on a flight with a bag which contained a bomb timed to destroy the aircraft and its 350 passengers in mid-flight . |
| 25 | No one expected to reverse the pull of 14 years of refugee resettlement overnight , and there is little doubt that voluntary repatriation would pick up speed if the Hong Kong authorities used quiet persuasion instead of the big stick . |
| 26 | Although not the longest reigning ( Belgium 's King Baudouin has been on the throne for 41 years ) , she is undoubtedly the most widely recognised monarch in the world ( there are currently over a billion bank notes and 16 billion coins in circulation bearing her portrait ) . |
| 27 | In 1880 Queen Victoria had been on the throne for forty-three years ; Gladstone began the second of his four terms as Prime Minister ; Great Britain was at the zenith of its powers . |
| 28 | If we consider starting the endowment here but presumably gon na run twenty-five years in fact you 're gon na finish in year twenty-three when they borrowed the money , are n't they , so they 've only borrowed the money for twenty-three years . |
| 29 | ( Henry ) Wooden , his valet for seven years who on his marriage left his service and came to Henley where he worked at the Brewery for 30 years . |
| 30 | Special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh , who has pursued the case for six years , said he was going after Mr Bush as the key figure in the 1986 scandal . |