Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [adj] [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Government policy does not explain why the organized networks only covered certain areas , or why the illicit trade declined in Kurunagala at the end of the nineteenth century , but continued to thrive for another fifteen years in the Low Country before suffering a similar decline . |
| 2 | Production is planned to continue for another two years . |
| 3 | In a report to councillors , he says that the trustees should have served notice on the county council last December if they wanted to exercise the option to continue for another 21 years at the nominal £1 a year rent for the village hall . |
| 4 | Tolkien had finished The Lord of the Rings by 1949 , though it was refused on his terms and did not begin to appear for another five years , on a non-royalty agreement — to be coolly received by reviewers at home and rapturously welcomed in that heartland of Anglo-Saxon romanticism , the United States of America . |
| 5 | Handsomely painted in chocolate and cream , the buildings are ready to serve for another 130 years ! |
| 6 | When the Turks finally overthrew the last of the Kotromanić rulers in 1463 , Vukšić continued to resist for another twenty years . |
| 7 | The shepherd answered that they were , and the emperor cried ‘ Now I am going to have to sleep for another hundred years ! ’ |
| 8 | Chance is chiefly remembered for the Chance process , for the recovery of sulphur in the Leblanc process , which enabled it to weather for another thirty years the challenge from the ammonia-soda process used by the Solvay Company in Belgium and its British partner , Brunner , Mond & Co . |
| 9 | Christie , 32 , confirmed : ‘ I have now made a definite commitment to compete for another two years . |
| 10 | GOR A Ability to live for eight hundred years |
| 11 | Even so , a 65-year-old male can expect to live for another 13.2 years and a female of the same age for 17.2 years . |
| 12 | ‘ The doctors say she 's responding very well to the new treatment , and she expects to live for another hundred years . ’ |
| 13 | What is more , we are told unequivocally that only those who are fortunate enough to live for another 30 years will be able to find out the purchase price of those companies . |
| 14 | By way of example , Figure 7 shows a system that I have been helping to develop for some ten years now ( Smith and Rothman , 1980 ) . |
| 15 | Western science — like our medicine — is notoriously dismissive of anything that smacks of the spiritual life that our civilisation seems so carelessly to have thrown away.Yet if we are to survive for another thousand years , we desperately need to rediscover this aspect of being human ; not only as a reaction to the yuppie ‘ me first ’ generation of the Eighties but as the only means of re-establishing the synergy between man and planet.This requires a radical shift in our attitudes . |
| 16 | What we 've got now is what we 're going to have in another ten years time ? |
| 17 | Social niceties were difficult to conduct across two hundred years . |
| 18 | Well , she was to dance for another twenty years . |
| 19 | Well we 've wanted to move for twenty five years possibly . |
| 20 | After 1893 the crime declined in Kurunagala , but not in the Low Country , where organized networks of thieves continued to operate for another fifteen years . |
| 21 | He says he 's bitter , with nothing to show after forty one years . |
| 22 | They formed the basis of the LM method which was to follow after another five years painstaking work . |