Example sentences of "year [coord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Or twelve that 's either two years or a year between them .
2 Specific schemes differ in their elements : for some final salary may be the best of the last three or five years or the average , or may be based on earnings as opposed to salary .
3 Being an intellectual or bourgeois did n't help that much in itself but those of their own journalists and professors they 'd sent to the remote prison island of their archipelago , Guru , had n't been systematically tortured ; just neatly excised from society for twenty years or the stay of their natural existences .
4 The two innermost trees were cut down in 1771 as they were considered to be impoverishing the soil and shading the flowers in the Garden , but the others stood guard by the watergate for another hundred years and no doubt caused interested comment from river travellers .
5 Well I 've known anyone to be five years and no use whatsoever .
6 Thirty-five years and no letter ever mislaid or wrongly delivered .
7 Right , when you start your holiday been coming here now years and years and years and every year I show you that video , you know that video off by heart , you should do so when you play , play safe , that 's all I 'm saying , play safe .
8 Patients had to have had insulin treated diabetes mellitus for more than five years and a history of altered awareness of hypoglycaemia within three months of transferring to human insulin .
9 ‘ Term of years absolute ’ means a term of years … either certain or liable to determination by notice , re-entry , operation of law , or by a provision for cesser on redemption , or in any other event ( other than the dropping of a life , or the determination of a determinable life interest ) ; … and in this definition the expression ‘ term of years ’ includes a term for less than a year , or for a year or years and a fraction of a year or from year to year ; …
10 205(1) ( xxvii ) " Term of years absolute " means a term of years ( taking effect either in possession or in reversion whether or not at a rent ) with or without impeachment for waste , subject or not to another legal estate , and either certain or liable to determination by notice , re-entry , operation of law , or by a provision for cesser on redemption , or in any other event ( other than the dropping of a life , or the determination of a determinable life interest ) ; but does not include any term of years determinable with life or lives or with the cesser of a determinable life interest , nor , if created after the commencement of this Act , a term of years which is not expressed to take years and a fraction of a year or from year to year …
11 There was a rise in serum creatinine which reached statistical significance after two years and a trend towards a decline in iothalamate clearance in cyclosporin treated patients ( Fig 1 ) .
12 Ten years and a couple of hundred hotel nights later , the memory lingers on : the yellow lino with glitter detail , the handle hanging from the wardrobe , a flickering fluorescent light over the bed , with its violent orange blanket and holed sheets , a television alternating colour and mono , and a bathroom straight from Fawlty Towers — threadbare towels , tacky unwrapped soap and a toilet lid which would not stay up .
13 After only eighteen months breathing the dust of the docks , Ramsey taught for six years and a half in a greenhouse .
14 In the vision of the Four Beasts in chapter 7 , Antiochus " changes the seasons and the law " and his rule will last " a time and times and half a time " ( 7.25 ) : perhaps three years and a half .
15 Finally , the time of persecution is stated again to be " a time , times and half a time " ( 12.7 ) , that is three years and a half , in the vision of the two angels which concludes the book .
16 If convicted , he would be liable to a prison sentence of up to 25 years and a fine of up to $1,250,000 .
17 On average it works out at about once every five years and a cost of many hundreds of pounds per fish .
18 The proposal also included an offer to reduce the price of supplies in real terms over the first five years and a pledge that during the contract period prices would remain ‘ within the general movement of prices in the economy ’ .
19 Mr Huxley Jones , of Fairlands Crescent , Rhuddlan , who was a branch manager with a plumbing supplies firm , has been pastoral steward at the local English Methodist Church for more than 20 years and a driver for the local meals-on-wheels service for eight years .
20 Through the years and a mess of assorted lovers , four changes in location and layers of silt ( from art and carpentry ) which cling to her pink and olive skin like something tropical , she has succeeded in relinquishing prettiness .
21 The package , originally proposed on Oct. 26 , included a reduction in government spending of 15,000 million kronor ( US$2,650 million ) over three years and a reduction of 18,000 civil service jobs , or 10 per cent of the total , over the same period .
22 About 150 former squadron members attended the official banquet ( I had earlier been asked to propose the Toast the the Squadron ) , there was a Squadron Parade , the dedication of a cairn to mark the 50 years and a flypast of present day aircraft .
23 Or have been an associate for four years and a member for six years
24 Indeed if the three years and a day expire on a Saturday or a Sunday or a bank holiday , when one can not issue a writ , the limitation period is extended until the next day on which one can ( Pritam Kaur v S Russell & Sons Ltd [ 1973 ] QB 336 ) .
25 The age of presentation is earliest in the 3rd generation with one presentation ( case 3 ) at 22 years and a second ( case 4 ) with a history suggesting the presence of a polyp at the age of either 16 or 23 years .
26 Yet with a gap of two years and a change of players from the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment to Kuijken 's own group , La Petite Bande , come differences which weigh significantly against the new issue .
27 Four years and a name change later she once again took to the road as a solo performer .
28 It was years and a lot of funny looks in the town before I learned the truth .
29 Even so , a 65-year-old male can expect to live for another 13.2 years and a female of the same age for 17.2 years .
30 Chris Wells , above , of Project Office Furniture , said Mr Lamont 's tax planning over the next three years and a resolution to reduce public borrowing should settle business nerves .
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