Example sentences of "of [adj] years [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barnard inherited a large fortune from his father : over a period of fifty years he devoted himself to the formation of a collection of prints , drawings , and paintings , becoming one of the foremost connoisseurs of his day . |
| 2 | Among the western Saxons Ine may not have acquired royal power until the following year ; he abdicated in 726 and the West Saxon Genealogical Regnal List gives him a reign of thirty-seven years which implies an accession in 689 , not 688 . |
| 3 | After a delay of some years there is now some momentum behind the production of a guidebook for the Clwyd Limestone area . |
| 4 | Thus the National Child Development Study which covered all children born during a week in 1958 found that at the age of 7 years there was a far higher proportion of children from the lower socio-economic groups who had not been immunised against smallpox , polio and diphtheria . |
| 5 | It is remarkable that two out of the three patients here described are children under the age of 10 years whose grievous sufferings commenced almost with their birth and would in all probability have continued to their death had not this infirmary been established . ’ |
| 6 | There is also considerable evidence ( as marshalled by Ingram 1975 ) to suggest that up to the age of six years it is mainly short , simple but still hierarchically structured sentences that the child is able to produce . |
| 7 | While this study is limited to one university and deals with a relatively small intake of mature students over a period of six years it does demonstrate that non-standard entry mature students can do particularly well when compared with other students . |
| 8 | Hamsten in a prospective trial of 109 patients under the age of 45 years who suffered a first myocardial infarction found a reduced plasminogen activator capacity and increased levels of plasminogen activator inhibitors in those patients suffering reinfarction . |
| 9 | For each of these years our members have enjoyed the good value offered by Homecover in price and cover . |
| 10 | Despite a foreign exchange crisis which later resulted in the devaluation of the lira and its suspension from the ERM [ see p. 39080 ] , President Oscar Scalfaro vetoed a government request , announced on Sept. 9 , for emergency economic powers for a period of three years which would allow it to act rapidly by decree if the Bank of Italy decided that the national economy was endangered . |
| 11 | At the end of three years they were no further on . |
| 12 | It was recommended , on the basis of a report from the medical officer , that outside accommodation in cottage homes be provided for children over the age of three years who were not eligible for boarding out . |
| 13 | But levied over a period of three years it brought in about £80,000 and became the prototype for later subsidies . |
| 14 | As the mature version of deep slow wave sleep develops in the first year of life , and daytime sleeping is displaced by wakefulness , the number of hours spent in active ( REM ) sleep is eroded until by the age of three years it has dropped from twelve hours to three or four . |
| 15 | The government announced on Nov. 26 that over a period of three years it intended to cut 122,000 government jobs — approximately one fifth of state employees — at an estimated saving to the state of the equivalent of US$1,500 million . |
| 16 | If a viable product is not produced in a total of three years it is felt that the project should be abandoned since the technology in use will have been superseded and a competitive product is likely to be nearing launch . |
| 17 | If a viable product is not produced in a total of three years it is felt that the project should be abandoned since the technology in use will have been superseded and a competitive product is likely to be nearing launch . |
| 18 | However , over the age of 80 years there is little difference between the sexes . |
| 19 | After the age of 5 years it is suggested that language increasingly becomes a tool for higher intellectual functions and therefore is difficult to assess independently of other cognitive processes . |
| 20 | Over a period of many years I had a succession of research students working On the Eocene strata of the Isle of Wight , off the south coast of England . |
| 21 | I have talked to lady presidents of prior years who have said that they did not experience any difficulties . |
| 22 | Inverness has also had of late years its annual Christian convention . |
| 23 | They have come from every country on earth … of late years there has been a remarkable influx of Jews into Palestine , but the Turkish government are striving to hinder their settlement by every means in their power . ’ |
| 24 | And of late years it has been used by the inhabitants of Virginia in many disorders , which are occasioned by thick , sizy blood ; so that the root of this plant , when its virtues are fully known , may become one of the most useful medicines yet discovered . |
| 25 | In a period of ten years he recorded at least thirty proven cases of clairvoyance between himself , or his wife , and a horse . |
| 26 | One in a patient of 82 years who had a gastric ulcer and one in a patient with grade 2 oesophagitis , which is unlikely to have contributed substantially to the anaemia . |
| 27 | I saw my first reed bunting 's nest in 1964 in the marsh between the lochs of Spiggie and Brow , and now in the space of twenty-five years they have successfully colonised the islands , and theirs is the only bunting song that today 's Shetland children will know … |
| 28 | I was subsequently paid to fly by the RAF ; after a lapse of 33 years I returned to the skies five years ago , when I could finally afford a share in a Cherokee which I now fly regularly from Ludham . |
| 29 | The cultural formation , at this level , is still alternative , but in the crisis of those years it was both necessarily involved in political activities , with direct and dangerous consequences , and in an overlap between what might in a different period be seen as separate kinds of practice ; as Godwin justly observed in 1794 , ‘ the humble novelist might be shown to be constructively a traitor ’ . |
| 30 | BUCKING THE SYSTEM Lindsey Buckingham It 's been four years since Lindsey Buckingham left Fleetwood Mac , and for the last three of those years he 's been writing , performing and working to complete his new solo album ‘ Out Of The Cradle ’ . |