Example sentences of "[art] [det] year in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following losses in the second quarter down from $40.4m to $35.4m , the underwriting deficit at the half year in sterling terms was just over 9% lower at $74.1m ( 1992 : $81.6m loss ) , representing an overall improvement in the US operating ratio of almost one and three quarter points for the half year . |
| 2 | After a few years in management , you know who they are , and it will be put right . ’ |
| 3 | I know if I get into trouble again I 'll be done for the arson charge and breach of probation , and that means a few years in jail and I could n't handle it . |
| 4 | During Mrs Thatcher 's eleven and a half years in power , journalists were mostly fawning courtiers to the Queen of Downing Street . |
| 5 | Anthony from was found guilty of the manslaughter of a seven year old girl in ninety eighty six , and served four and a half years in prison . |
| 6 | Mr Keenan was speaking during a news conference in Dublin in which he gave a moving account of his four and a half years in captivity . |
| 7 | The defendant lived with his brother for two and a half years in property owned by the plaintiff local authority of which the brother was a secure tenant under the Housing Act 1985 . |
| 8 | A Banbury man known as Psycho has been sentenced to two and a half years in custody for an unprovoked knife attack on a man out walking his dog . |
| 9 | I have spent three and a half years in research , leading to a PhD in molecular biology . |
| 10 | Indeed over his three and a half years in office new problems were added as quickly as others were solved or eased . |
| 11 | Today he admitted serving 2 and a half years in jail for violent assults on women . |