Example sentences of "year at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may hold them again at a price a hundred times their worth to us , for a few months , a few years at a pinch , but French they will still be , and in the end we must leave go of them . |
| 2 | I taught for 29 years at a boy 's school and I was very aware of young people who are now serving prison sentences for crimes relating to the troubles . |
| 3 | Prior to 1988 , the BBC 's licence fee was set every three years at a level that was mid-way between what the BBC wanted and what politicians thought was electorally acceptable . |
| 4 | Educated at Leeds Grammar School , he graduated in classics and divinity at Trinity College , Dublin , in 1904 , after which he taught for two years at a school in West Kirby in Liverpool . |
| 5 | Built over 10 years at a cost of £6bn , the state-of-the-art construction is carrying less than half of the projected amount of traffic . |
| 6 | The worst example is the A465 Taf Fawr bridge in south Wales , replaced after 18 years at a cost of £3 million . |
| 7 | IBM has filed suits against five of its former executives charging them with using proprietary technology , developed over 14 years at a cost of $200 million . |
| 8 | However , in 1803 Sir Michael le Fleming had granted a lease to William Evetts Sheffield of the " Polygon Sommers Town " in Middlesex , promising him all minerals save slate for a term of 21 years at a Royalty of one-twelfth . |
| 9 | I ran a fête , two years at a trot , some time back now , though , it was . |
| 10 | When he came out he worked for some years at a stud-farm at Henley ( Suffolk ) ; then he went back to smithing and worked for many years at Needham Market , a large village near Ipswich : |
| 11 | Peabody Trust , one of the largest housing associations in the UK , can be required to purchase the properties after five years at a price intended to realise net assets per share of not less than 126p to investors . |
| 12 | Borrowers can choose to fix their loans for between 20 and 25 years at a rate of 11.25 per cent , or they can choose terms of three , four and five years at a fixed rate of 10.6 per cent . |
| 13 | They are issued for periods ranging from 3 months to 5 years at a rate of interest which can either be fixed or floating . |
| 14 | Three years A lease taking effect in possession for a term not exceeding three years at a rack rent need not be made by deed and may be made orally ( Law of Property Act 1925 , s54 ) . |
| 15 | No doubt it was hard to dismantle , or even dent , the consensus policies of thirty-five years at a stroke . |
| 16 | He also keeps the same brigade for years at a time because staff turnover in contract catering is not as rapid as in hotels and restaurants . |
| 17 | Before the 1965 Immigration Act , Mirpuri and Bengali families would send their sons to England for a few months or a few years at a time . |
| 18 | Often they are left unused for years at a time , except , that is , for all those informal human activities , like adventure play , gypsy encampments , bonfires , dumping rubbish , and grazing goats , that are not allowed where the grass is mown and the trees are carefully planted . |
| 19 | Though a particular district might remain untouched for years at a time , there was always disease somewhere on the island . |
| 20 | Even in their heyday they had been fluid entities which could be dormant in specific areas for years at a time , but the decline at the turn of the century was much more widespread than earlier fluctuations . |
| 21 | The eggs of most species are small , and although they do not contain a large supply of nutrients they remain viable for years at a time , mainly because the tiny embryo is in a resting state . |
| 22 | There is undoubtedly some truth in this ; the nobility frequently sent proxies to parliament in these years ; they were too preoccupied with war to have any reason for opposing the king in parliament , and their independent campaigns on the continent took some of them away from England for several years at a time . |
| 23 | But so physically restricted was the Calais area , and so often was it under French pressure , that for long years at a time all the needs of the garrison , whether in provisions or materials , had to be shipped in from England . |
| 24 | This is a full-time appointment , and in most universities a permanent one , though some ( notably Oxford , Cambridge and London ) elect their vice chancellor for a period of several years at a time . |
| 25 | Despite the jokes about it , the Bishop 's Castle Railway served the town and the district well for seventy years at a time when transport ( rapid by the standards of the day ) was becoming ever more important . |
| 26 | After this the treaty would be tacitly extended for five years at a time insofar as one of the signatories did not give one year 's notice of cancelling the treaty . ] |
| 27 | Thus it seems hardly sufficient for people to vote every four or five years at a time of a general election , the brevity of the act carrying little weight or influence . |
| 28 | In any well-run firm the agreement will not be allowed to remain under lock and key unlooked at and unconsidered for years at a time . |
| 29 | So basically what you , you , what you would be likely to do is rip o rip off the system completely for two years at a time |
| 30 | She leased the theatre ( which she called the Royal Victoria Coffee Music Hall ) for eighteen years at a rental of £1,000 p.a. , raised from her own charitable supporters , but faced an immediate financial crisis as local audiences , deprived of drink or blue jokes , withdrew their patronage . |