Example sentences of "[num] year [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite much discussion these days of the ‘ entrepreneurial personality , ’ few of the entrepreneurs with whom I have worked during the last 30 years had such personalities . |
| 2 | Rita Claydon , a 49-old grandmother , ditched her husband of 30 years to marry 18-year-old window cleaner Roy Dubbs . |
| 3 | It might be possible , using the latest technology , to build a computer today that could put scores on a million positions a second ; such a machine would need more the 30 years to look five moves ahead . |
| 4 | In fact if the previous speaker has complained about waiting in patience , I have waited forty years to tell this story in the assembly because a young minister flatly contradicted a giant of the church , Dr John , the protagonist of national church extension . |
| 5 | Roy , above , who for six years played inept landlord Alec Gilroy in Coronation Street , will star with actor Robert Powell in the musical at the Bristol Old Vic . |
| 6 | Nynex Corp 's Nynex CableComms unit has bought three of the eight UK cable television companies that Pacific Telesis Group Inc 's PacTel Cable UK Ltd put on the market last June ( CI No 1,943 ) : Nynex has taken the Greater Manchester , Bolton and Derby franchises and while it did not disclose terms , says it plans to invest £1,000m over the next five to six years to provide local telecommunications networks in its British franchise areas ; the companies it acquired are in franchise areas where it already operates . |
| 7 | The Department of Environment also announced yesterday that it had abandoned the system it has used for most of the past 10 years to channel extra housing cash into the 57 worst affected inner-city areas . |
| 8 | I analysed the authorship number in eight journals over 10 years to test this hypothesis . |
| 9 | " We will be spending £26 billion over the next 10 years to put right years of neglect , and that includes investments in sewage works . " |
| 10 | Martine Le Moignan , the England No 1 , reached the semi-finals for the ninth time in 10 years beating Australian Liz Irving.In the men 's event , Australia 's Rodney Martin and Jansher Khan , the top seed , qualified to meet in the semi-finals . |
| 11 | As the onset of leprosy is slow , it will take at least 10 years to produce positive results . |
| 12 | Over thirteen years arranging sunny sailing holidays in the choicest parts of the Mediterranean have taught us what you like best — lots of top quality facilities . |
| 13 | Leaving nothing to chance , the organisers of the ‘ Greatest Flower Show on Earth ’ spent eight years transforming seventy hectares of polder into a totally controlled floral environment . |
| 14 | In Russia a proposal of 1802 to set up an institute which would offer an elaborate course extending over eight years to prepare young men for a diplomatic career led nowhere . |
| 15 | Mrs Taylor , who only has partial sight in one eye , has spent eight years studying eight hours a day to achieve her degree by using a specially adapted tape recorder . |
| 16 | For those aged 65 + only women aged 65 — 74 years show this decrease in first admission rates ( see Figures 7.7 and 7.8 ) . |
| 17 | It took almost fifty years to deflect this falsification on to causes other than Newton 's theory . |
| 18 | ‘ For instance all the Big 10 trusts could ( if they so chose ) fund a 5% dividend increase from reserves for three years assuming maintained earnings , ’ the brokers write . |
| 19 | And in Gloucestershire , a project has just spent three years helping young children avoid problems in the future . |
| 20 | The European Economic Community produced a Directive on product liability in 1985 ( Directive 85/374/EEC ) and member states were given three years to introduce national laws which complied with the directive . |
| 21 | This study is concerned with identifying how far the inflation adjusted accounts which have been produced by large quoted companies over the past three years have economic consequences . |
| 22 | I had spent three years researching contemporary mysticism , and it was through John Michel , a colleague of mine who was an authority on Druid mythology and the ancient sites of Britain , that I first met Ringo . |
| 23 | Three years provide some degree of continuity , but they also build in a degree of inflexibility , making it difficult to react to change . |
| 24 | Its leader , Slobodan Milosevic ( ‘ Slobo ’ to his friends ) , has for the past three years resisted any idea of a looser Yugoslavia . |
| 25 | Earlier , the EPA had issued regulations allowing public utilities up to 21 years to remove dangerous levels of lead from drinking water . |
| 26 | He then spent 18 years taking still shots for posters until Saatchi and Saatchi 's asked him to direct a small commercial . |
| 27 | SAFER Auvergne functions by purchasing land on the open market and re-selling it within 5 years to enlarge existing farm units or to create new , more rationalised units . |
| 28 | His 95 years spanned extraordinary changes in economics , which he eloquently described in an article for this newspaper in 1986 . |
| 29 | As a coupling , this is not too hot : almost 50 years separate these works which ideally require different styles of playing ; this highly-gifted duo unfortunately approach both works in exactly the same way . |
| 30 | Social democratic ideas took 50 years to form this century , and then had 40 years of government , including the Christian democratic variations applied in Europe . |