Example sentences of "some [adj] years [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My own case at this point was by no means typical of the average or a product of the time — some 12 years service , and my five years as an NCO pilot coming to an end . |
| 2 | With a history stretching back some 2,000 years Cologne is one of Germany 's oldest cities . |
| 3 | I mean , we do n't stand still at this because what will seem a very good service this year will look like a lousy service in five years ' time so let's not pretend the fact that we have n't achieved everything we 've achieved this year in some previous years means that we have n't made any improvements because I think one of the key areas where in fact er improvements have been made in previous years , and to a certain extent , one could say reading this I was worried by an apparent admission of very much reference or very much expenditure on them in the provision of day centres , because I think that a key element in care in the community and the fact that today so successfully this year has been the fact that a major number of th and I do n't think there 's any disagreement over this , a number of day centres , very efficient and very effective day centres , were developed , funded , provided mainly in the conurbation areas and I think Mr is right to highlight the fact that , as so often happens in these instances , it 's people who live in conurbations who get the best deal because it 's , it 's more economical , it 's easier to provide a centre for a large number of people than it is for a small number of people . |
| 4 | I am confident that in some ten years time , Save The Children will be a strong pan-European organisation , perhaps the strongest as such within the European Community . |
| 5 | Even in Liverpool , which had some eighty years experience of organization to protect the shipowning interest in parliament , there was " an utter and lamentable want of cohesion among employers ' on matters affecting labour . |
| 6 | Pollen evidence shows that even in the Amazon basin , maize was being grown some 6000 years BP and that there was forest clearance a thousand or possibly three thousand years ago at Lake Victoria in Central Africa . |
| 7 | It was compiled by the Rev Frank Goodridge , who was for some thirty years Chaplain Superintendent of the Royal Association of the Deaf ( RAD ) , a regional charity operating in and around London and Oxford . |
| 8 | For some thirty years Hickey practised as an attorney at the Supreme Court established in 1774 in the capital of the new British empire in India to administer English law to the inhabitants of Calcutta and to British subjects in Bengal generally . |
| 9 | retired at the end of December 1992 having completed some 20 years service with and latterly . |