Example sentences of "year and a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was also a mathematician there from the university who John has known for about thirty years and a young man from Rome , maybe the daughter 's boyfriend , who John also knew , as he , the young man , is the son of a scientific contact of John 's in Rome and the said Dave had sent son to John about two years ago to discuss what university course the son should do and where . |
| 2 | Among our recent former pupils are the best Scottish Geography Graduate in the past fifteen years and a young geologist who is now a millionaire with his own oil company in Canada . |
| 3 | In 1986 this was reduced to seven years and a sliding scale was introduced to determine the amount of tax paid . |
| 4 | However , a good number of geographers have conducted recreational surveys in the last 20 years and a good deal of experience in the methods and techniques for conducting visitor surveys , in particular , has been obtained , so that it is now generally agreed that the following procedure should be followed : |
| 5 | The intention is that students can obtain and HNC after one year , an HND after two years and a general degree in EEG after three . |
| 6 | Jessie Hewitt , a childminder for 30 years and a regional director of the National Childminding Association , is well aware of the urgent need for a national registration system for all child carers . |
| 7 | A typical agreement lasts three years and a disabled person can have more than one person insured to drive the vehicle . |
| 8 | There was a gradual rise during the NADOR years and a gradual decline during the three years since RIDDOR was introduced . |
| 9 | The Elgin district was surveyed in 3 years and a descriptive memoir published . |
| 10 | in 10 years and a great deal of that is due to higher productivity . |
| 11 | Many times more people have moved out of the big state hospitals over a larger number of years and a great deal more research on outcomes has been done . |
| 12 | The first details of the fifth five-year development plan ( 1990-95 ) were revealed in a Planning Ministry statement on Dec. 31 , 1989 , in which heavy emphasis continued to be placed on defence spending in spite of the recession of recent years and a chronic deficit which resulted in modest spending increases overall . |
| 13 | Concrete plans are now afoot for the beleaguered company to produce its most keenly awaited car , its most radical design for 30 years and a probable lifesaver . |
| 14 | Dick is my next youngest brother , he 's been the village doctor round her for twenty years and a keen collector of antiques since he was married . |
| 15 | 100,000 people have worked in the industries over the years and a huge exercise will begin to try and trace everyone . |
| 16 | Scragg et al in a case-control study found that ever user of the pill was associated with an increased risk of symptomatic gall bladder disease in women younger than 29 years and a reduced risk of symptomatic gall bladder disease in older women . |
| 17 | His mother had been concerned about his weight for nearly three years and a previous admission for investigation of the cause had found nothing organically wrong . |
| 18 | The school librarian is provided with a monthly total of items borrowed over the previous two years and a running total of items on loan to each year group . |
| 19 | However , they are unable to sidestep the results that show that areas with a high proportion of young men aged 15–24 years and a high proportion of the working class have significantly higher crime rates — and both these groups have the highest levels of unemployment experiences . |
| 20 | Two years and a historical event passed before Jack Elliot and Harold Farrington made the first commercial flights in Curtiss Jennies , on March 3 , 1926 . |
| 21 | A case comes to hand of two children , a boy of 8 years and a 10-year-old girl , who broke into their local school and ‘ then completely wrecked the school furnishings ’ , and this was not the only instance of vandalism and arson in schools . |
| 22 | Well it reminds me when I was in a shop on the High Street for many years and a little boy and girl came in with a , with an Alsatian dog , a puppy . |
| 23 | Michael Lowther was jailed for six years and a further year for being in breach of a probation order . |
| 24 | Michael Rock , who 'd allowed his house in London to be used by the gang , was jailed for 10 years and a 76-year-old courier , George Chay , who 'd brought LSD into Britain from California , was jailed for just four years because the judge said he did n't want him to die in prison . |
| 25 | This rediscovery has come through historical exhibitions held recently at New York 's DIA Center for the Arts ( 1988–89 ) , Claude Berri 's RENN Espace d'Art Contemporain in Paris ( 1991–92 ) and at the Hallen für Neue Kunst , Schaffhausen , where Ryman 's art has been prominently featured for several years and a fresh installation opens shortly ( 2 May-31 October ) . |
| 26 | This reduction in the gap between supply and demand had been achieved despite a consistent forward under-estimation of the peak demand in every year and a consequential under-ordering of plant . |
| 27 | The commission was paid on a reducing basis so a substantial amount of commission was paid in respect of the premium paid in the first policy year and a lower commission in subsequent years up to the tenth year . |
| 28 | Twenty-six-year-old Yasmin says it took about a year and a great deal of hard work to get her figure back into shape , so she knows she 'll have a hard task in front of her after the birth of her second baby . |
| 29 | We have recently succeeded in bringing in a number of new projects but to put it in perspective we need something like 250,000 hours of work a year and a major project like Tencel was about 50,000 in total . |
| 30 | The result has been a saving on energy of Aus$90,000 a year and a sharp reduction in emissions of carbon dioxide . . |