Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] a [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember I was once experimenting with a gauze — it had been in La Scala for a hundred years and was full of dust . |
| 2 | : Ma for a few years and recently we 've reassessed the doses and also we 've reassessed the risks so those two things together have caused us to express our concern and to advise the government what to do about it . |
| 3 | And every Saturday for a whole year she run a Japanese consulate . |
| 4 | Again , an analysis of the lesser offices of bailli , prévôt and constable ( of a castle ) between 1254 and 1307 reveals that at least sixty-one identifiable Gascon nobles held these offices , as against a mere nineteen English or Anglo-Normans , of whom ten were appointed by Simon de Montfort and the Lord Edward in a single year ( 1253–4 ) . |
| 5 | Having worked at Billingham for a few years he was appointed as a commissioning engineer for an ammonia plant in Canada before moving in 1985 to manage the leading concept ammonia [ LCA ] plant at Severnside , Avonmouth . |
| 6 | Carruthers was appointed as District Geologist in charge and Dinham was also posted there from Scotland for a few years . |
| 7 | This comment may have drawn attention to Mary Leapor for a few years . |
| 8 | He said he had visited Sara Hart on 1 January as a New Year 's greeting . |
| 9 | They might receive only one or two small gifts , or even none , or — worst of all — could find themselves carried off to Spain for a whole year ! |
| 10 | Ben Gill was re-elected for a second year as deputy , and Tony Pexton for a second year as vice-president . |
| 11 | And Merv will join them and their family in Derbyshire with a two year old lookalike , a mongrel named Floss . |
| 12 | They are the only Government in recent history to have cut the real resources available to the NHS in a particular year . |
| 13 | The Pact for Economic Stability and Growth ( PECE ) between the government , trade unions and business [ see pp. 37078 ; 37274 ] was renewed in November for a further year . |
| 14 | The extension of the YTS into a two year scheme and making it compulsory for those not in education through removing entitlements to other benefits , means that in future there may be no such thing as a ‘ young worker ’ or a ‘ young unemployed ’ under the age of eighteen . |
| 15 | Madonna 's long awaited multi media entertainment company Maverick , embracing film , books , TV and music publishing , signed a $60 million deal with Warner under a seven year arrangement which , should everyone be happy , can be extended to 11 years . |
| 16 | If a successful sponsorship deal is arranged , the Liberator will be based in the UK for a two year period , during which time it would be a major attraction at the various events marking the 50th Anniversary of the US 8th Air Force 's arrival in the UK . |
| 17 | In 548 they stayed in the Balkans for a whole year and destroyed many towns and fortresses , including the Byzantine centre of Lychnidus ( Ohrid ) . |
| 18 | More excellent news is the company 's return to Jordan after a six year absence to construct an extension to the Arab Potash plant . |
| 19 | John Swain , describing returning to Phnom Penh after a thirteen- year absence , wrote wistfully of the now vanished maisons flottantes ( floating brothels ) and the old Café de Paris cyclo-girls who would coo ‘ Aller avec vous ce soir , Monsieur ’ . |
| 20 | Swindon Town have strengthened their side by signing the former Spurs and England defender Terry Fenwick on a one year contract … |
| 21 | No one had been called Emily for a hundred years . |
| 22 | What it does n't currently offer is Unix SVR4 compatibility , and Solbourne commits only to a gradual migration to Solaris over a two year period . |
| 23 | Twenty thousand women had their tests rechecked when it was disclosed mistakes were made in the labs at Inverclyde Hospital in Greenock over a five year period . |
| 24 | erm My cause for concern , and I think it 's one that 's been echoed in a number of places , is the still very high figure for food-poisoning outbreaks , for food-poisoning cases , erm you 'll see we 're not as high as the previous comparable half-year of last year , which was ninety-two , but that included the Keble outbreak , which you 're well aware of , but at thirty-two for Oxford for a half year , that 's a very high figure . |
| 25 | On Nov. 27 James Chin , head of WHO 's AIDS forecasting unit , had warned that AIDS would be the main cause of death among young women in western Europe within a few years . |
| 26 | In any case , one or another form of ‘ Christianity ’ must have reached Britain within a few years of the time specified by Gildas . |
| 27 | Steers ( 1953 ) has quoted examples from the east coast : in Holderness in a thirty-seven year period towards the end of the last century the average loss from the coast was a strip 65 m ( 215 ft ) wide , or an average annual loss of about 1.75 m ( 6 ft ) , while the district suffering the most severe erosion lost 82 m ( 273 ft ) in the same period . |
| 28 | June 3 : US President Bush extended US trade benefits to Bulgaria for a further year . |
| 29 | For many experts , the unusually heavy and dense lava may continue to be churned out of Etna for a further year . |
| 30 | Why is it that mayors only existed in Lewes for a hundred years seeing it 's such an old town ? |