Example sentences of "in [noun] [adv] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frances Millary was introduced to Medau by Marjorie Worgan in Sussex about 20 years ago . |
| 2 | It had been synthesized and first tested in animals about 12 years earlier , and rejected , or ignored , twice . |
| 3 | In third place ( 15% ) was a clever idea of swapping old paper for new bonds whose interest rate rises in steps over six years as ( or if ) Venezuela 's financial position improves . |
| 4 | Obviously , then , the fact that 200,000 Greek Cypriots ( a third of the population ) were kicked out of their homes by the Turkish invaders , thus becoming refugees in their own country , is not a crime , according to Mr Gustafson ; nor is the fact that 80,000 settlers were imported from Turkey in an attempt to alter the demographic composition of the island ; nor is the fact that 1,619 people are still reported as missing in action almost 17 years after the invasion ; nor is the fact that the Turks are destroying every trace of the 3,000-year-old Greek culture that exists in the occupied territories , a fact that even the Turkish Cypriot press often reports . |
| 5 | Liberal Premier David Peterson had called the election two years before the current parliament 's term — constitutionally five years , although in practice normally four years — expired . |
| 6 | UNEP also organises fair loans from rich donor countries to poor developing nations , and is looking to spend $8 billion in aid over five years . |
| 7 | In exchange , Washington would provide Palau with $460 million in aid over 15 years . |
| 8 | There , there was a wonderful display in Chester about five years ago |
| 9 | Just as her mother had done when she 'd arrived in Athens so many years before . |
| 10 | Astor was a German who had settled in Canada about 12 years earlier and started in business , trading with Indian tribes and immigrant trappers . |
| 11 | In addition to the $400 million which he had already paid into an SEC disgorgement fund , he was due to provide a further $500 million to be contributed in tranches over five years . |
| 12 | You do not need to be a Christian , or any sort of a believer in established religion , to want to live your life by the simple principles of goodness that are symbolised by the baby born in Bethlehem almost 2,000 years ago . |
| 13 | Sun Microsystems Inc has an OEM contract from Fanuc Ltd which it estimates at $10m a year : the Japanese robotics and factory automation company plans to create turnkey systems out of the workstations by bundling them with computer-aided design software from Cadkey Inc and sell them worldwide ; it looks for $330m in business over three years . |
| 14 | … having myself graduated in Business over 40 years ago , there seems to be a remarkable cycle in which we return to particular models every few decades . |
| 15 | In business only four years she already has a turnover of half a million pounds and supplys one outfit a year to the young princes William and Harry . |
| 16 | Kingdon accepts , probably too uncritically , that modern humans originated in Africa about 200,000 years ago and then dispersed across the globe . |
| 17 | They were not too concerned with what had happened to a couple of whores in Paris over ten years ago , or even the other matter . |
| 18 | FOUR US marines were laid to rest in Virginia nearly 26 years after they were killed in Vietnam . |
| 19 | In one study the mortality ranged between 2.5 and 33% in patients over 70 years depending on the surgical approach used . |
| 20 | Thus in both types of diabetes the threshold for commencing conventional drug therapy should be higher in patients over 65 years of age , although benefit has been shown in older non-diabetics in a recent study ( Amery et al , 1985 ) . |
| 21 | All the upper gastrointestinal malignancies were in patients over 65 years old ( range 69–87 years ) . |
| 22 | It occurs almost exclusively in patients over 60 years as a result of the postoperative complications of surgery performed for continued or recurrent bleeding . |
| 23 | In the large Mayo clinic series of pelvic J reservoirs with mucosal proctectomy , mean bowel frequency was 11 in 24 hours in patients over 50 years of age compared with seven in 24 hours in patients under 50 , a statistically significant and clinically important difference . |
| 24 | Hence the report from the Mayo clinic that after mucosal proctectomy with a pelvic J reservoir and endoanal , pouchanal anastomosis , bowel frequency in patients over 50 years was 11 in 24 hours , compared with seven in patients under 50 years . |
| 25 | The number of items prescribed differed across the age bands ( table I ) with a small peak in patients under 5 years old and rising rapidly from the 5–16 to 75–84 age groups . |
| 26 | The message from all three units is similar — hospital mortality from the first variceal bleed is not significantly greater in the elderly than in patients under 65 years . |
| 27 | Hence the report from the Mayo clinic that after mucosal proctectomy with a pelvic J reservoir and endoanal , pouchanal anastomosis , bowel frequency in patients over 50 years was 11 in 24 hours , compared with seven in patients under 50 years . |
| 28 | And er I think there were some of them still in use about fifty years after they were made . |
| 29 | He stayed for a while reflecting on what Fitzormonde had told him ; first , both Sir Ralph and Mowbray 's murders were connected to that terrible act of betrayal in Cyprus so many years earlier . |
| 30 | Thirdly , both murders are certainly linked with Sir Ralph 's dreadful betrayal of Bartholomew Burghgesh in Cyprus so many years ago . ’ |