Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are , of course , many occupations in which similar demands of constant readiness are made , but when it goes on for twenty years or more it is inclined to upset a good domestic relationship . |
| 2 | Top planner bows out after 30 years |
| 3 | MARY BAILEY looks back on seven years as the cichlid-keeper 's agony aunt . |
| 4 | The entire stock of the nation 's glasses turns over in two years so there is no reason why this measure should result in any implementation costs or why the price of a pint should go up . |
| 5 | This theory also implies that the internal body clock takes up to five years to develop fully . |
| 6 | Alkaline and moderately rich in minerals , it takes up to 80 years to filter through 295 feet of sand , clay , shale , coal and siltstone . |
| 7 | A top Oxford orthopaedic surgeon says it takes up to ten years to measure the success of a joint , but the maunfacturers come up with new , improved versions each year . |
| 8 | A specialist in failure analysis in that unit is Tony Jones , whose involvement in AIB investigations also goes back over many years . |
| 9 | Wenger ( 1984 ) identified that the death of a sibling or friends may be harder to get over than the death of a spouse , perhaps because the longevity of the relationship goes back to earliest years . |
| 10 | But what you 're doing here I think it is er , er an example of the partnership , a partnership that goes back for many years , certainly during World War Two and I think er it is still strong and er holds firm today the partnership between the United States and Great Britain . |
| 11 | The RAF pulls out after fifty years . |
| 12 | He succeeds Meuric Rees , the Lord Lieutant of Gwynedd , of Tywyn , who steps down after 12 years as a panel member , the last six as chairman . |
| 13 | I mean it says it lasts up to two years , we 've only had it on there a year |
| 14 | CHOCOLATE Flake bars up to five years old were on sale in a rural Co Down shop , it was disclosed today . |
| 15 | If one relates this position to citation studies in the humanities which show that well over 50% of books cited have imprint dates up to 35 years ago and earlier , the increasing tendency to search only the OPAC , and ignore the card catalogue is doing a major disservice to scholars and their potential exploitation of the resources of research libraries . |
| 16 | Not now , not next year but in the next twenty years so there are a problem with schools , there are problems , I think , with changing leisure habits er people , the way that people take their leisure has changed over the last twenty years and not always have clubs , organizations and sailing schools taken account of that in , in their programme , especially with youngsters and I have to say I also believe there is apathy in some clubs and other organizations , not every club has an active youth sailing scheme and I believe that any club that does n't either must be extremely popular because of its er prices of beer or , or some other reason or it may not exist perhaps in twenty years ' time , so I think it 's an ext extremely important topic brought about by the maybe , without being melodramatic , some of the stuff that we 're reading in the papers about youngsters these days but looking at it from a purely selfish sailing point of view if we 're to get more youngsters into the sport even if we 're to hold our ground we 've got to make a big effort over , over this year and , and it 's important make sure that it runs on for future years . |
| 17 | Carl Jacobson faces up to 10 years in prison for relaying bribery money to the US navy official responsible for awarding lucrative contracts to WedTech , a New York contractor , and United Chemcon , a Lancaster , Pennsylvania company associated with Mr Guerin 's International Signal and Control Corp . |
| 18 | ACTOR Gerard Depardieu 's son faces up to four years in jail if found guilty of drug pushing . |
| 19 | After a marathon seven-month trial , Noriega , 54 , the first foreign leader to be convicted in America , faces up to 120 years ' jail . |
| 20 | Jilted Griffin , who faces up to three years in jail , was arrested after tracking Lynn Oddo to a flat in California . |
| 21 | Anyone belonging to the UDA — Europe 's biggest paramilitary group with an estimated 2,000 members actively involved in terrorism — faces up to ten years in jail . |
| 22 | He 'd been hired by the man 's parents but still faces up to 20 years in gaol . |
| 23 | MADRID — Howard Marks , the Briton accused by US police of being the ‘ Marco Polo ’ who led an international ring of hashish smugglers , yesterday took one step closer towards extradition to the US , where he faces up to 113 years in jail , Tim McGirk writes . |
| 24 | Police arrested him with 14 ounces of the drug in January and he now faces up to 25 years in jail . |
| 25 | If he is found guilty , he faces up to 12 years in jail and a $1 million fine . |
| 26 | Their contract runs out in two years . |
| 27 | Their recording time works out at three years per album . |