Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [adj] years [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That the club marked its centenary in 1990 is unconnected with arthritic administration , rather that for many years Shildon believed it was two years later . |
| 2 | The history of this is that for many years M O D were unhappy about expansion of the , of the port er , for commercial use and the reason they were unhappy of course was that erm commercial use was competition that they felt would be likely to drive up wages . |
| 3 | The truth was that for four years Fittipaldi had come close to dominating motor racing in the way Jackie had before him : after two indifferent early years learning his trade , he had been champion twice ( in 1972 and 1974 ) and come second in 1973 and 1975 . |
| 4 | The lesson of the casualties and the lack of any real gains even to the victors was made harsher by this realization , that for four years Europe had fought a war which no one had wanted . |
| 5 | ONE of the great virtues of the Soviet armed forces was that for 40 years West Europeans and Americans could agree that they were the main threat to NATO . |
| 6 | That is not systematic momegliture that has gone like that for ten years universities still use it ! |
| 7 | More than 20 officers , each with 20 years service , were awarded long-service medals . |
| 8 | And nobody can imagine him like that in twenty years time . |
| 9 | Now what that actually means is that in ten years time when that money matures , that policy matures |
| 10 | In 1828 , after a period when cattle stealing had been rarely and lightly punished , the Supreme Court in session at Matara convicted a number of men , including some headmen , and sentenced each to five years imprisonment and two hundred lashes . |
| 11 | They were both old lags and were sentenced each to ten years imprisonment . |
| 12 | HEARD in a City tavern last night : ‘ I expect my husband to be just the same in 20 years time as he is now . ’ |