Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [prep] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has n't been a prince for some years . |
| 2 | Section 222(5) ( a ) contains a time-limit of two years during which the election as to main residence can be made and if an election is not made within the period the question of which is the main residence is determined by the Inspector of Taxes , subject to the usual right of appeal . |
| 3 | A throne with 1,000 years of history has seen nothing like this before . |
| 4 | A CASE OF FORTY YEARS |
| 5 | Indeed , throughout the 1960s successive governments were struggling to balance the books and it was rather a case of some years being less bad than others . |
| 6 | At the beginning of the nineteenth century we find Lord Eldon sometimes keeping a case for ten years to think over , and not delivering judgement till perhaps most of the parties were dead and most of the property had gone in costs . |
| 7 | Old Doc Mac was one of the really great forensic scientists — we started together — but there 's no denying that he 'd let the reins slip a bit in recent years . |
| 8 | ‘ Hello , old man , you have n't changed a bit in 35 years , ’ says the colonel . |
| 9 | Trim it down a bit from two years ago . ’ |
| 10 | PRESIDENT Bill Clinton last night prepared the country for a painful package of tax increases and spending cuts , saying he was trying to ‘ change a direction of 12 years and take a new course ’ for the economy that would quickly provide half a million new jobs . |
| 11 | PRESIDENT Bill Clinton said yesterday that he would be ‘ trying to change a direction of 12 years ’ with the economic agenda he will announce this week , and that it would create half a million jobs in the short term . |
| 12 | ‘ We 're trying to change a direction of 12 years , take a new course ’ from the Reagan-Bush era , he told reporters before meeting Democratic congressmen . |
| 13 | While they had shared championship success when they had first met , after a split of four years it was their second era together that brought the ultimate honour for them both — the 1987 Open Championship title . |
| 14 | ‘ As for the Handscomb case , the ratio decidendi was that a sentence of 27 years was so far beyond anything which the judiciary could have recommended as the appropriate tariff , that the decision to postpone the first review until 1991 was one which no reasonable Secretary of State could have reached . |
| 15 | A sentence of five years would — be substituted . |
| 16 | J. Spencer commented [ 1979 ] Crim LR 24 : " [ w ] hy should running away after telling lies carry a sentence of 5 years ' imprisonment under s.2(1) ( b ) when running away without telling lies — which is more harmful , because [ the accused ] is likely to be harder to trace — only carries a sentence of 2 years under s.3 ? " |
| 17 | ( S. ) 407 ; a sentence of two years would be substituted . |
| 18 | Asserting , what was palpably untrue , that ‘ There are probably few people in India who do not sincerely regret that you should have made it impossible for any government to leave you at liberty ’ , he handed down a sentence of six years ' simple imprisonment , pointing out — the crowning touch-that the sentence was the same as that given to the nationalist hero Bal Gangadhar Tilak , twelve years before . |
| 19 | ( S. ) 468 , where a sentence of four years imprisonment was upheld for robbery of a taxi driver who was threatened with a lighted cigarette and a knife , although he did not suffer injuries comparable with those suffered by the victim in this case . |
| 20 | The reference to Murphy suggests that a sentence of four years would have been upheld on an appeal by the offenders . |
| 21 | The offender was on licence at the time of the offence from a sentence of 15 years ' imprisonment imposed in 1981 . |
| 22 | J. Spencer commented [ 1979 ] Crim LR 24 : " [ w ] hy should running away after telling lies carry a sentence of 5 years ' imprisonment under s.2(1) ( b ) when running away without telling lies — which is more harmful , because [ the accused ] is likely to be harder to trace — only carries a sentence of 2 years under s.3 ? " |
| 23 | The Court had reached the conclusion that it should quash the indeterminate sentence and substitute a sentence of seven years ' detention . |
| 24 | And here we find that the term is widely rather than narrowly defined to include an offence which carries a sentence of three years or more on first conviction ; or involves the use of violence ; or results in substantial financial gain ; or involves conduct by a large number of people in pursuit of a common purpose . |
| 25 | Although the sentencer had exceeded his powers by passing a sentence of three years ' detention in a young offender institution , the error was automatically corrected by this provision and a lawful sentence resulted . |
| 26 | Steve Gilbert has had a beard for 20 years and says he ca n't imagine life without it . |
| 27 | In fact , London qualified ambulance workers are being offered £12,100 , while to get anywhere near £25,000 a Metropolitan police constable would have to be putting in a huge amount of overtime — the annual pay of a PC with three years ' experience is £12,756 . |
| 28 | As well as its contribution to study skills , the science curriculum for years 3–5 contributed to the Challenge of Change theme in the form of biological surveys ( e.g. comparisons of a field over passing years , investigations of pollution at the town tip , and classifications of flora and fauna in a local creek ) . |
| 29 | Christine Thexton , Ashfield , Newton Aycliffe : I was in a sanatorium for two years having major surgery for a lung complaint , so the King 's death is deeply implanted in my mind . |
| 30 | They have enjoyed a vogue in recent years which they do not always merit and they now seem to be losing some of their popularity . |