Example sentences of "[noun sg] period [prep] [adj] years " in BNC.

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1 Concomitant chemolitholytic treatment ( ursodeoxycholic and chenodeoxycholic acid 7.5 mg/kg/day each ) was administered until three months after total fragment clearance for a maximum therapy period of 1.5 years .
2 Under U.S. GAAP accounting for goodwill as an offset against shareholders ' equity is not permitted ; rather goodwill must be amortized over the period of its expected useful life , subject to a maximum write-off period of 40 years , through the income statement .
3 This drop is largely irrelevant because the long incubation period of 10 years or more between HIV-1 infection and AIDS onset results in a complex relation between the time of HIV-1 infection diagnosis and AIDS incubation period .
4 I pointed out that AIDS has an incubation period of 7–10 years , and that the results of the Government 's efforts , if any .
5 As much as 85% of the materials should be on open access , and stock relegated to store should remain there for a trial period of five years before being returned to the main library , or transferred to a permanent back-up collection such as the British Library .
6 In other proceedings , however , the limitation period of six years gives , or should give , the local authority ample time to sue even after an appeal against their demand .
7 As shown in table 5.1 , Project A has a payback period of two years as opposed to Project B's 2⅔ years payback period .
8 These days BEM systems cost little or no more than conventional controllers so the Exeter Arms ' payback period of two-and-a-half years would be much shorter today .
9 Fariz provided no details of the amounts involved , but said that the accord provided a 10-year repayment period with 10 years ' grace for official debt originally due for repayment between 1991 and mid-1993 .
10 An article in Politika at the end of 1986 ( 10 December ) , when the rate of inflation was moving up towards 100 per cent , reported that loans from the Federal Fund were given at 10 per cent ( 9 per cent in Kosovo ) with a repayment period of twelve years .
11 Such a child might be subject to a rehabilitation period of ten years — the same period as for an adult sentenced to from six months ' to thirty months ' imprisonment , the longest period covered by the Act .
12 The Law Commission has recommended that these be abolished after a run-out period of ten years ( Law Commission Report No 152 , published November 1985 ) .
13 To limit the operations of non-NAFTA car companies in the North American market , tariffs would be eliminated on intra-regional trade in cars only if each NAFTA country guaranteed , over a phase-in period of eight years , 62.5 per cent local manufactured content and 60 per cent on components .
14 Nature of operations The Bank lends on a commercial basis ( although loans usually have a grace period of five years before repayments ) since the intention is to supplement private finance , not compete with it .
15 Official development aid loans ( worth US$4,100 million between them ) would be rescheduled over 20 years with a maximum grace period of eight years ( instead of five ) .
16 He has now agreed to extend his changeover period to eight years in line with the Government-backed ban .
17 The Rome Treaty envisaged the creation of the EEC ( by the original ‘ Six ’ ) 2 within a transition period of twelve years , which would end in December 1969 .
18 The First ( or rather the first he acknowledged , since there had been a previous Quartettsatz he had written at the age of 25 ) was completed in 1920 after a long gestation period of four years — partly explicable by its extreme complexity and his elaborately detailed indications on the playing of almost every note .
19 The programme is intended to start this summer with an introduction period of three years .
20 Overall the system appeared to be even more cost-effective than the estimates , with a pay-back period of 2.6 years .
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