Example sentences of "[num] year [prep] [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | This biography is not merely content to tell you everything you ever wanted to know about Dickens ( interesting fact : Dickens spoke with a slight ‘ metallic burr ’ in his voice ) ; nor does it stop at telling you everything you never wanted to know about Dickens ( uninteresting fact : there were white Christmases for the first eight years of Dickens ' life ) ; it goes so far , as with that unidentified novel , as to let you know when it can not tell you something . |
| 2 | The Companies Act should be amended so that directors ' service contracts do not exceed three years without shareholders ' approval . |
| 3 | The first twelve years of Jesus ' life are passed over in silence . |
| 4 | Additional measures included cuts of $11,900 million over five years in farm commodity programmes , and reductions of $3,700 million over five years in veterans ' benefits . |
| 5 | Both items were reported 150 years after Augustus ' death by the traveller Pausanias ( 8 , 46 , 5 ) , who says that the ‘ keepers of the wonders ’ note that one of the boar 's tusks is broken while the surviving tusk is kept in the Emperor 's Gardens in a Sanctuary of Bacchus and it measures just three feet long . |
| 6 | During his prosecution by Cicero Verres fled to Marseilles , but appeared again on the proscription list of Mark Antony , compiled in 43 BC , thirty years after Verres ' term of office . |