Example sentences of "years and a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patients had to have had insulin treated diabetes mellitus for more than five years and a history of altered awareness of hypoglycaemia within three months of transferring to human insulin . |
| 2 | ‘ Term of years absolute ’ means a term of years … either certain or liable to determination by notice , re-entry , operation of law , or by a provision for cesser on redemption , or in any other event ( other than the dropping of a life , or the determination of a determinable life interest ) ; … and in this definition the expression ‘ term of years ’ includes a term for less than a year , or for a year or years and a fraction of a year or from year to year ; … |
| 3 | 205(1) ( xxvii ) " Term of years absolute " means a term of years ( taking effect either in possession or in reversion whether or not at a rent ) with or without impeachment for waste , subject or not to another legal estate , and either certain or liable to determination by notice , re-entry , operation of law , or by a provision for cesser on redemption , or in any other event ( other than the dropping of a life , or the determination of a determinable life interest ) ; but does not include any term of years determinable with life or lives or with the cesser of a determinable life interest , nor , if created after the commencement of this Act , a term of years which is not expressed to take |
| 4 | Ten years and a couple of hundred hotel nights later , the memory lingers on : the yellow lino with glitter detail , the handle hanging from the wardrobe , a flickering fluorescent light over the bed , with its violent orange blanket and holed sheets , a television alternating colour and mono , and a bathroom straight from Fawlty Towers — threadbare towels , tacky unwrapped soap and a toilet lid which would not stay up . |
| 5 | If convicted , he would be liable to a prison sentence of up to 25 years and a fine of up to $1,250,000 . |
| 6 | On average it works out at about once every five years and a cost of many hundreds of pounds per fish . |
| 7 | Through the years and a mess of assorted lovers , four changes in location and layers of silt ( from art and carpentry ) which cling to her pink and olive skin like something tropical , she has succeeded in relinquishing prettiness . |
| 8 | The package , originally proposed on Oct. 26 , included a reduction in government spending of 15,000 million kronor ( US$2,650 million ) over three years and a reduction of 18,000 civil service jobs , or 10 per cent of the total , over the same period . |
| 9 | About 150 former squadron members attended the official banquet ( I had earlier been asked to propose the Toast the the Squadron ) , there was a Squadron Parade , the dedication of a cairn to mark the 50 years and a flypast of present day aircraft . |
| 10 | Yet with a gap of two years and a change of players from the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment to Kuijken 's own group , La Petite Bande , come differences which weigh significantly against the new issue . |
| 11 | It was years and a lot of funny looks in the town before I learned the truth . |
| 12 | Even so , a 65-year-old male can expect to live for another 13.2 years and a female of the same age for 17.2 years . |
| 13 | It was the worst mine explosion in 20 years and a culmination of a series of explosions caused by the owners , eagerness to bring out coal from the crept workings . |
| 14 | The firm traded there for many years and a number of well-known craftsmen served their apprenticeships at the works . |
| 15 | ‘ Staff numbers had doubled over the previous five to six years and a programme of change had been thrust upon us by the market , ’ explained . |