Example sentences of "and [art] [adj] years [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many days were lost in strikes in the 10 years prior to 1979 and the 10 years since . |
| 2 | Bowlby 's report was abridged and published as a paperback ( 1953 ) , thus becoming widely available to the lay public ; in the year of publication and the five years following , more than seventy-five thousand copies were sold , and nearly as many in the next five years : an exceptional sale in Britain for a book not intended as a baby book for parents . |
| 3 | Rincewind stood up as slowly as he dared , and drew from his belt the short sword he had taken from the guard a few hours and a hundred years ago . |
| 4 | Two and a half years later he was a four-handicapper , but then he broke his leg in two places playing football and missed a whole season . |
| 5 | Two and a half years later he was a four-handicapper , but then he broke his leg in two places playing football and missed a whole season . |
| 6 | Just over five and a half years later , I stood on the same spot and watched the Israelis drive down the same road to be greeted in precisely the same way by the same Christians on the same balconies . |
| 7 | Four and a half years later I am returning with three of my children and my husband . |
| 8 | Three and a half years later , the Panthers that had stormed through Bazar and the Ukraine came home in defeat . |
| 9 | One and a half years later gastroscopy showed some slight fasting gastric secretion . |
| 10 | But two and a half years later he was front page news . |
| 11 | A Nottingham body builder who subjected his girl friend to a campaign of sadistic mistreatment that included an attack with a hot iron had a three year jail sentence increased to four and a half years today . |
| 12 | Over the months it became clear that Tom 's aggressive arguing with Terry was founded on a similar slight two and a half years previously . |
| 13 | I was in there nearly three years , or two and a half years anyway and , of course , I when I passed to go to the Q M of course , I , I used to do the Headmaster 's and all that but they , they could n't teach me any more because you , you can only have the same lessons as them that have been taught you know . |
| 14 | TWO AND A HALF years ago I was diagnosed as being HIV positive . |
| 15 | Its own scheme was implemented three and a half years ago , and now 85 per cent of its 250,000 borrowers pay this way . |
| 16 | LIQUIDATORS of the Isle of Man Savings and Investment Bank , which crashed seven and a half years ago with debts of £42.4m , said last night they would be paying more than 10p in the pound to the 4,000 mainly small investors who lost money . |
| 17 | All the money will go to Aid to Romanian Orphans , launched some two and a half years ago , following Anneke Rice 's televised visit to Romania . |
| 18 | Three and a half years ago , six computer programmers gave up their regular jobs to form Computercraft . |
| 19 | When Mr. Gussman arrived in Alton some two and a half years ago , there was a question mark over whether or nor it was worth making him chaplain of the hospital . |
| 20 | ‘ And as my disgusting stepfather walked out two and a half years ago , ’ pointed out Perdita , ‘ the Committee are going to think it pretty odd that Mum 's got a bun in the oven . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ One of the things that struck me as an outsider , coming into the firm two and a half years ago , was that there was no accountability , ’ recalls Mel Smaje . |
| 22 | When I arrived at Palace five and a half years ago it was n't only Ian 's gold tooth and charisma that sparkled on the training field . |
| 23 | When I started in the Preliminary Training School two and a half years ago my aunt had passed Little Ben on to me and had my name engraved beneath hers and grandfather 's on the back . |
| 24 | It was sold about seven and a half years ago to its US distributors . |
| 25 | Famous for its marketing campaign that guaranteed bug-free software — if you found a bug you could claim a VW Beetle from the company — Ready Systems embarked on an ambitious project two and a half years ago to build a completely new tool suite . |
| 26 | A small group er from my own parish went to India two and a half years ago to visit our missionary partner . |
| 27 | Montaine 's suicide had taken place two and a half years ago . |
| 28 | And that was how I was trained and that way I was trained seven and a half years ago , it has now all changed again . |
| 29 | Three and a half years ago I described my experience of a meeting I attended for briefing on the brave new world of budget holding , the wild card of the recently published NHS Review . |
| 30 | It will be within the memory of the House — although the memories of Conservative Members are probably as blank as Conservative Benches — that about five and a half years ago the right Hon. Member for Cirencester and Tewkesbury ( Mr. Ridley ) when he was the Secretary of State for Transport implemented a very novel idea . |