Example sentences of "years have a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Franklin says the promised stream of profits averaging £10m over the next five years has a present value of roughly £44m . |
| 2 | It will be readily apparent that the section is silent on the question which arises in the present case , namely whether a minor who has attained the age of 16 years has an absolute right to refuse medical treatment . |
| 3 | He was the first man in nearly twenty years to have a full-face mug-shot on the cover of Surfer . |
| 4 | Margaret Thatcher was one of the greatest supporters of a classless society , not just I 'm not just talking about the silver spoon in one 's mouth , it 's the sometimes the stainless steel spoons of the middle class that erm that is a lot of the trouble , and no-one took on the establishments of the professional bodies erm and who have been over the years had a great deal of privilege in this country more than Margaret Thatcher . |
| 5 | But that has been in the past and that was a thing that we had for several years had A level plays actually on the stage am I correct ? |
| 6 | Those adopted before the age of 2 years had an average IQ as high as 96 , while those adopted later scored around 80 . |
| 7 | THE Meadows Orchestra has for years had an excellent reputation for presenting interesting programmes at a very high level of performance . |
| 8 | And it is well known that children who have been read to in their preschool years have a general advantage when the learning of reading begins . |
| 9 | To summarize , it seems that detectors which will go into continuous operation in the next few years have a strong chance of detecting a type II supernova in our Galaxy provided that the collapse is asymmetric to the degree now thought likely . |