Example sentences of "from [adj] [prep] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Indian child , however , once he is 5 , increases his expectation from 32 to 46 years ; the Mexican , from 39 to 55 years — and the 5 year old of the United Arab Republic can now expect to live to the age of 59 , having added 21 years to his total expectation of life by virtue of having survived the ‘ pre-school ’ period ( UNICEF , 1964 ) . |
| 2 | The mean age of the population increased from 32 to 35 years in men and from 35 to 39 years in women during this period . |
| 3 | Chloride contamination — caused when de-icing salts seep into concrete coverings — has cut the notional life of bridges from 120 to 20 years . |
| 4 | This was reduced from eight to six years by the Court of Appeal in 1990 , but the court then ruled that his remaining two grounds of appeal could not be argued in the light of the 1984 Lords decision . |
| 5 | The situation facing young people today is radically different from that of ten years ago . |
| 6 | Seven patients were women and 11 were men , and their ages ranged from 49 to 84 years . |
| 7 | The sentence on Juan Miguel Benegoechea , the importer of the oil , was increased from 20 to 77 years , as was that on the main distributor Ramón Ferrero López , from 12 to 65 years . |
| 8 | In 1961 , there was a more restricted age-range of named victims , from 15 to 34 years ; in 1971 , from 12 to 60 years . |
| 9 | Two consequences have followed from this in recent years . |
| 10 | Other proposed changes to COSHH include a requirement for a regular review of COSHH assessments and increasing the period for which monitoring and health surveillance records should be kept from 30 to 40 years . |
| 11 | As part of the periodic review of company assets , the company has accepted the results of an engineering study on extending the life of Torness from 30 to 35 years , resulting in a rescheduling of depreciation charges . |
| 12 | The nursery is situated at 79 and 81 Dalkeith Road and is registered for 18 children aged from 6 weeks to 2 years and for 30 children aged from 2 to 5 years old . |
| 13 | Eight patients had a past history of recurrent gastric ulcer ( n=5 ) , endoscopic gastritis ( n=3 ) , or gastrointestinal bleeding ( n=4 ) from 2 to 10 years before diagnosis . |
| 14 | The KIDLINK network connects children aged from 10 to 15 years living in some 40 countries , including Argentina , Brazil , France , Israel , Japan , Norway , Russia , South Africa and the UK . |
| 15 | Death rates increase approximately in proportion to the duration of smoking : doubling the duration of smoking from 10 to 20 years increases the incidence of lung cancer 16 times if daily cigarette consumption remains constant [ 2 ] . |
| 16 | Life expectancy for men rose from 70.8 years in 1981 to 73.2 years in 1991 , and for women from 76.8 to 78.8 years . |
| 17 | There were ten boys and two girls , ranging from six to fourteen years , going to start a new life on the farm schools in Australia . |
| 18 | His prison sentence was cut from six to two years by the Court of Appeal , but eighteen months of it was suspended to allow his immediate release . |
| 19 | Agreement was reached on a number of other issues , including shortening the presidential term from six to four years ; strengthening the role of the National Assembly ; and the introduction of direct elections for the governor of Taiwan and the mayors of Taipei and Kaohsiung . |
| 20 | The group included 12 women and eight men , ages ranging from six to 84 years . |
| 21 | A total of 38 rebels were reported to have been extradited to Vietnam on Jan. 14 , 1990 , and were given prison sentences ranging from six to 15 years . |
| 22 | Where there has been suggestion that the new ‘ basic cycle ’ will involve shortening the number of years available to children ( in Sierra Leone , the 1973/1974 Educational Review originally suggested a two year cut from 7 to 5 years ) the reaction has been vehement . |
| 23 | In these AA patients , there was no recurrence of paralytic ileus or severe obstructive symptoms during the follow up ranging from 1.9 to 10.6 years ( average 5.1 years ) , although minor symptoms occasionally occurred . |
| 24 | He had suffered from these for seven years and had been in and out of mental hospitals many times and had received every available treatment including electro-convulsive therapy ( ECT ) — all to no avail . |
| 25 | FOURTEEN human rights activists were sentenced on 17 March to prison terms ranging from three to 10 years after a trial which fell below international standards for fair trial . |
| 26 | The package , already outlined in late January [ see pp. 37941-42 ] , included measures ( i ) increasing the maximum prison sentence for breaches of export laws from three to 10 years ; ( ii ) allowing income from illegal trade to be seized ; ( iii ) giving extra powers to customs and export control authorities and staff ; and ( iv ) allowing the security services to tap telephones and open mail in their investigations . |
| 27 | The International Herald Tribune of April 4-5 reported that 17 Syrian human rights activists had recently been sentenced to prison terms ranging from three to 10 years . |
| 28 | Mohammed Amadou Cissé , for many years Minister of State in charge of security and former President Mathieu Kérékou 's personal adviser and soothsayer , was on Sept. 7 sentenced to 10 years ' imprisonment and fined 3,000,000 francs CFA after having been found guilty of embezzling 3,500 million francs CFA of public funds ( US$1=238.522 francs CFA as at Sept. 7 , 1992 ) ; his nine co-defendants received prison terms ranging from three to eight years . |
| 29 | The policy caters for children from three to 18 years of age or when they start work , whichever is the sooner . |
| 30 | This is because your hair goes through a growing phase which lasts from three to five years , then a resting phase which lasts for three to four month before it falls out . |