Example sentences of "of [adj] [prep] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Allocate the first round of new nursing posts towards the target of 7,000 in two years . |
| 2 | However even for male university graduates in large firms there is the prospect of retirement at the relatively early age of 55 although there has been pressure from the Ministry of Labour in recent years for this to be raised . |
| 3 | By 1800 the only females were girls of eleven to sixteen years picking coal at the surface for 6d ( 2½p ) a day . |
| 4 | Pure Bouzy Champagnes , though profuse in number , are consistently high in quality and often improve over a period of eight to ten years in bottle . |
| 5 | Not to exaggerate the cat 's breeding abilities , it must be recorded that from the age of eight until twelve years there is a gradual decline in the number of kittens produced in each litter , so the reproductive apparatus is beginning to show signs of slowing down at this stage , and only the strongest and healthiest of moggies can stay the full course . |
| 6 | They also have a life of 30 to 40 years . |
| 7 | The Halifax Building Society , conducted a survey of its ‘ Quest ’ club members with an age range of 12 to 16 years of age . |
| 8 | The membership is drawn from the various sectors of librarianship — public libraries , academic libraries , school library services and special libraries — and members are invited to serve on SPILL for a term of 2 to 3 years . |
| 9 | What I wish to discuss then is the contention of some in recent years that ‘ Jesus was a feminist ’ . |
| 10 | The most obvious example of this in recent years , of course , has been the relationship between Lloyds Bank plc , Black Horse Agencies plc and the various unlimited companies acquired by the latter . |
| 11 | A Russian scholar , Kondratieff published in 1926 evidence for the view that familiar economic cycles of 3.5 to 11 years ' length were superimposed on deeper ‘ long waves ’ of 47 to 60 years . |
| 12 | What you should look for is evidence of good , consistent results over a period of 10 to 20 years . |
| 13 | A good quality bed has a lifespan of 10 to 15 years , and so works out cheaper in the long run . |
| 14 | A gap of 10 to 12 years is to be expected . |
| 15 | For very few of these past 170 years have Greeks felt properly in command of their own country . |
| 16 | One of the most famous of these in post-war years was the Nyasaland Commission of Enquiry of 1959 led by Mr Justice Devlin who reported in terms of which the government of the day did not wholly approve . |
| 17 | It is also in this period ( roughly from the age of three to six years ) when sexual identity is established — usually with the same-sex parent providing the role model . |
| 18 | Most people said I should get probation , but I was looking on the black side and thought I would get a sentence of three to five years . |
| 19 | Such important parameters as age at maturation and longevity are unknown , though it seems likely that krill breed two or three times in a lifespan of three to five years . |
| 20 | Forecasting for periods of three to five years ahead is as much a part of the corporate planning activity . |
| 21 | Births should be spaced at intervals of three to five years , but not longer . |
| 22 | ( Mothers over age 30 risk some hazards in electing to have another child , if an interval of three to five years can not be effected before age 34 ) . |
| 23 | Western press reports from Xian on March 18 said that three intellectuals were sentenced to prison terms of three to five years , including Li Guiren , editor of the Shaanxi province Hua Yue Publishing House , which had published works by the dissident journalist Liu Binyan [ see also p. 37338 ] . |
| 24 | Of the 15 patients with benign strictures follow up information has been obtained in 13 ( 87% ) with a follow up period of three to 10 years ( median six years ) . |
| 25 | Thus population numbers of small herbivores , in circumstances of limited food production , cycle over periods of three to four years . |
| 26 | Whereas intervals of three to four years between births have the greatest health benefits , as noted earlier , there is some evidence that longer intervals of , say , five or more years do not carry these benefits and , in fact , may have a deleterious effect ( see Table 9 ) . |
| 27 | It may be more appropriate to set a period of three to four years for the achievement of the longer term aim . |
| 28 | The death-watch beetle has a life cycle of three to ten years depending upon the nature of the timber it inhabits . |
| 29 | A loan will be repayable when the student 's earnings reach a level of 85% of the national average wage , and a period of 5 to 10 years allowed for the repayment ( CIPFA , 1989 , p. 17 ) . |
| 30 | This is partly because politics as such are compromised in the eyes of many after 40 years of the Communist regime . |