Example sentences of "[num] years [prep] [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Victoria Woodhull Claffin — later 19th Century free-thinking radical feminist who was the first woman to run for the office of United States President over 30 years before women 's suffrage . |
| 2 | For example , a search for " women and their fight in society " would lead to a message to the effect that there is no book described by all the words of the search , but the system would nevertheless retrieve four items ( in the PCL catalogue ) , the first of which is titled Hidden from history : 300 years of women 's oppression and the fight against it . |
| 3 | The Companies Act should be amended so that directors ' service contracts do not exceed three years without shareholders ' approval . |
| 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 | For example , many parts of the country , the South West , to some extent this area , are now finding that the benefits that they had to the rates system of people moving in after retirement after ten , fifteen , twenty years before disadvantages erm people need special hospital treatment , people need special types of accommodation and erm these are not the things that will be provided , as one of my speakers talking about hospital services said , by the private sector . |