Example sentences of "year and [verb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hard-working , 2.5-tonne gross vehicle weight 308Ds stay in service with UPS for four years and cover 40,000 miles a year . |
| 2 | Subscribe for two years and get three books . |
| 3 | According to anti-trust lawyers , independent of both sides , most successful anti-trust cases involve market shares of over sixty five percent , Irving Sher who recently acted in another aviation anti-trust case says they often last three to five years and cost millions dollars . |
| 4 | He held office for twenty-seven years and became one of the most renowned figures who have ever served the BDDA , because of his devotion to the cause of deafness and the dominating position he came to hold in the deaf world . |
| 5 | The Daily Mail sold well over 200,000 copies daily in its first years and reached half-a-million sales after three years . |
| 6 | She had been married for 19 years and had four children ( aged between 12 and 17 years ) . |
| 7 | This most popular show , which ran for 12 years and hooked 22 million viewers at its peak , operated under all the usual constraints of economy sit-com — restricted set , small cast , tiresome re-establishment of norm every week — but somehow extracted magic from little more than the relationship between Harry H Corbett and Wilfrid Brambles . |
| 8 | Torrel James , 28 , a policeman in Port-of-Spain and a former Trinidad & Tobago Youth representative opening bowler , has been jailed for 15 years and received 20 lashes with the birch after being found guilty of the attempted murder of his girlfriend and her father in 1989 . |
| 9 | He had been badly injured in the war , staying in hospital for four years and undergoing twenty-eight operations . |
| 10 | At present the statement must be given no later than 13 weeks after employment commences , but part-time workers who work less than 16 hours a week need not be given a statement until they have been employed for five years and worked eight hours or more a week . |
| 11 | Squadron Leader David Bolsover has flown Buccaneers for 7 years and flew 15 bombing missions in tandem with Tornados during the war . |
| 12 | With a chilling prophecy he then stated that it would be the task of a great leader , Hitler for preference , to march into Russia in the next five years and place one half of the population in the lethal chamber and the other half in the zoo . |
| 13 | I am 30 , have been married for 10 years and have two children . |
| 14 | We 've lived together for eight years and have two children ? |
| 15 | The couple have run Ronald Richardson Jewellers for 16 years and have 140 years of tradition behind them . |
| 16 | But with a constant round of hotel openings — Hilton has opened 25 properties in the past three years and has 15 in development — he does n't actually get a lot of time behind the desk . |
| 17 | ‘ We have already cut £6.5m in the last two years and lost 80 jobs last year , ’ said Coun Carr . |
| 18 | In Europe it plans to invest $350m over the next five years and create 650 jobs to launch the speech and data services , which will offer common features and performance standards globally , and will be offered to European multinationals in 1994 . |
| 19 | Mr Nichol , now 24 , was charged in February last year and spent four and a half months in custody before being released on bail . |
| 20 | " He plays 35 times a year and goes six weeks without seeing home . |
| 21 | This costs £20 a year and enables two adults to get reductions off fares a third off First Class and Standard , a quarter of Savers and Supersavers . |
| 22 | He 's suffered 3 strokes in the last year and chose one of the wettest days of autumn to have a go . |
| 23 | CAC produces around 15 000 tons of finished product each year and employs 750 people . |
| 24 | They mate at the beginning of the year and lay one or two dozen eggs in May . |
| 25 | Salmon angling contributed £50m to the Scottish economy last year and generated 3,400 jobs , according to a study for the Scottish Tourist Board and the Highlands and Islands Development Board . |
| 26 | Tuberculosis strikes around two million children under 5 every year and kills 30,000 . |
| 27 | We make 200,000 cars a year and export 70,000 of them so there 's not much left for the home market and people have to apply one year in advance to buy one . |
| 28 | The well-organised firm does not just look at last year and add ten per cent . |
| 29 | They left Southampton on September 26 last year and completed four gruelling legs , via Rio de Janeiro , Hobart and Cape Town . |
| 30 | The Falkirk project , funded by DOE , was completed during the year and includes thirty-six thematic maps at 1:10 000 depicting geological topics relevant to land-use planning , with an accompanying report . |