Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [prep] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Child-bearing and cooking for twenty years … she must have been worn out before she died a comparatively young woman . |
| 2 | After a nuclear accident , scientists expect to find first leukaemia cases , beginning after five years and peaking after 15–20 years , then thyroid cancer and finally general cancers . |
| 3 | This scheme , which was the first which opened up the riverside in Leeds , an area which up to this time had been ignored and declining for 100 years , led the way for the mass of development which has since followed . |
| 4 | The hardwoods ; Oak , Walnut and Cherry , are fully seasoned and we guarantee them against warping and splitting for 5 years . |
| 5 | Sun , which claims an installed base of some 2,000 machines in Ireland , has had an operation up and running for three years . |
| 6 | If the developers succeed in winning over Environment department inspector , Roy Foster , they plan to be up and running in three years . |
| 7 | Joseph says the black advocacy project is unlikely to be up and running before next year . |
| 8 | Plans are also being earmarked for a global Asian television station to be up and running within five years . |
| 9 | His final recommendation , therefore , was that evaluation should become a continuous process in which all faculties and departments should be involved ; that it should examine teaching and learning in all year groups ; but that it should perhaps be less wide-ranging and more focused than this first effort . |
| 10 | Left empty and decaying for some years , the buildings were at last put up for sale . |
| 11 | He moved to Headley with his family last year from London , where he had won a reputation as a campaigner in his community , and set up practice as Jack Warshaw Conservation Architecture and Planning after many years as head of conservation at Wandsworth Council . |
| 12 | It is claimed that after decay of the soft tissues , small mammal bone does not survive exposure for long on the ground , becoming soft and disintegrating within one year ( Voorhies , 1969 ) . |