Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [verb] [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was just as I had remembered it for over thirty years , it was just as it used to appear at least once a week at lunch in the Paris household where I spent two years of my youth with a greedy Norman family : two years of study interspersed with the most trying of family meals , endless and infinitely to be dreaded but for the blessed beauty of the food . |
| 2 | The first woman controller of Radio 2 has risen from the BBC typing pool , where she started 32 years ago . |
| 3 | He 's already put them to good use at Halifax Rugby League club where he enjoyed four years of success . |
| 4 | He then moved to University where he spent eight years in research and development in Artificial Intelligence and particularly Expert Systems . |
| 5 | In 1851 he began four years ' apprenticeship with his uncle , Dr Owen Roberts of St Asaph , who prepared him for Edinburgh University , where he spent two years at the medical school . |
| 6 | Tom joined the AEA police at Sellafield in 1969 and then transferred to Chapelcross in 1974 , where he completed 18 years service . |
| 7 | His youngest daughter Margaret married John Hastings Earl of Pembroke in 1359 , and although she died two years later , Pembroke remained high in favour at court and , with royal encouragement , embarked on a plan to reunite the inheritance of his ancestor William Marshall , which had twice been partitioned in the previous century and a half . |
| 8 | That 's a tribute to the British work force and do n't let the honourable gentleman forget that we now have one point four million more in work , in the U K than we had ten years ago . |
| 9 | For instance I have given one which is in the last ten years we have nearly one and half million more people in work than we had ten years ago . |
| 10 | It was unsurprising that , with Johannes Rau as their candidate for Chancellor , they fared even less well in the 1987 election ( with 37 per cent of the vote ) than they had four years before . |
| 11 | No no allowing for inflations , no underlying trends under the labour proposals people in Cambridge will be paying less hard cash now than they did eight years ago . |
| 12 | Figure 6.5 shows movements in the average age at first marriage ; women are marrying , on average , some three years younger than they did forty years ago . |
| 13 | Do professional requirements cover more or less of the curriculum in any given field than they did ten years ago ? |
| 14 | Children these days stay over at each other 's houses far more often than they did 20 years ago . |
| 15 | Although he had four years of orgies with Debbie Harry and Joan Jett at the paper between 1978 and '82 , he never kidded himself that he was on first-name terms with pop . |
| 16 | The Met receives about $13 million a year for operations from New York City , $3 million less than it got two years ago . |
| 17 | The national gallery gets £2.75 million , the same as it received seven years ago and rather less than it received 10 years ago . |
| 18 | Mrs Merlin and her husband Christopher say radioactive contamination was behind their decision to sell the house , Mountain Ash , Ravenglass , six miles from Sellafield , which fetched only £35,000 — little more than it cost 11 years earlier . |
| 19 | The Tell performance I attended — at Covent Garden on Monday — hung together musically far better than it did two years ago . |
| 20 | The 1970s were not characterized by an emphasis on the bibliographical aspects of librarianship , and the possibility of wide-scale application of McClellan 's ideas seem more remote now than it did 20 years ago . |
| 21 | All the difficulty sprang from high rents ; for his own farm , the landlord now paid four times more than he had twenty years ago , and he found this unfair : he would have been happy to go from five pounds a year to ten , but not to twenty . |
| 22 | You 'd think no-one else had ever made a film except him and you can see him coming on all good mates with the crew so they 'll make things easier for him when he gets in front of camera , so he looks five years younger and I get the shiny nose . |
| 23 | cos I worked two years all the time I had a few bob for that extra that 's all . |
| 24 | Sarah had nursed her mother until she died two years ago . |
| 25 | The idea may then be for the surviving spouse to give the property ( which she took under the deed of variation ) to the children and make a potentially exempt transfer under IHTA 1984 , s3A : provided she survives seven years no inheritance tax will have been payable on the death or on the gift or indeed on her death by reference to the property which she gave to the children . |
| 26 | You see in British Steel we we have seventy thousand deferred pensioners and er it is a group of people that I feel extremely sorry for , because er in nineteen eighty-six British Steel introduced into their pension scheme while it was still in the public sector , retirement at sixty where with a pension credit spaced on length of service , so if you had thirty-five years service in , you could retire at sixty as if you were sixty-five and there was nothing done at all for deferred pensioners and in certainly our submission to British Steel for seeking improvements , we we asked that they er they look at deferred pensioner with a view to paying their pensions at sixty , recognising that it was a very high-class plane that might have to be er achieved in stages . |
| 27 | And the theory was that if you served thirty years in the Ce Central African police , you 'd be given a section of land in what later became Rhodesia . |
| 28 | George : ‘ If you prefer 2,000 years of art history , whereby if you have an exhibition for nudes , then everyone assumes it must be women , that 's fine . |
| 29 | If you wait five years it gets slightly steeper so the force to you becomes that and so on and so forth , forty five fifty and you can see at fifty five if you want to retire at a certain age er what 's the age that you actually want to retire ? |
| 30 | I had a close look at that table , obviously a matter of some interest and that 's the reason I return to this , as I read the table , there is a very substantial amount of double counting within it , for this reason , that all outstanding er planning permissions are included once , and there are then separate categories of allowance for all types of sites , namely large windfalls , conversions , small sites , and allocated sites , those are all put in , er or most of them are put in at thirteen years worth , that being the remainder of the plan period to two thousand and six , it will not have escaped you that if you include thirteen years worth all the existing commissions are part of that thirteen years , and so simplest approach to correct that table would simply to discount the outstanding commitments , because they 're all counted again as part of the thirteen years , I do have a secondary point that the allowance for conversions is very much higher than what seems to be happening , and in what is in the tables that er Mr Thomas drew it to your attention from the York City er appendix eight , so that er on on two counts , but mainly the double counting one there is a great deal of er erm optimism , if I can call it that , in that table . |