Example sentences of "and [adj] years [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | that there is that fear , that is because that is the second World War this is why the erm the er late thirties , early forties was never gon na succeed , because they had two completely different archaeologist , plus now in their purest form their not that but in the they were , they were never going to work , I mean that is the fact that their communists , the sole reason they 've been against each other for a hundred and fifty years there is no other reason |
2 | And some years you 'd probably maybe get a few pounds back and sometimes you would er maybe have to pay a few pounds . |
3 | In the past two and half years it has risen four times in real terms to pay for the publication of more and more glossy pamphlets such as the parents charter — party political propaganda produced at the taxpayers ' expense . |
4 | Manager Billy Bonds said : ‘ This was the best we have played away in the two and half years I have been in charge . |
5 | The cumulative amount of goodwill resulting from acquisitions during the current and previous years which has been written off , net of goodwill attributable to disposals before 31st March 1991 , totals £3,850,000 . |
6 | A group of infertile couples who were initially interviewed in 1981 ( in a study funded by the SSRS ) and who have one or more children now aged between 7 and 11 years who were conceived by donor insemination , will be interviewed again during the summer of 1989 . |
7 | For the next fourteen frustrating and hazardous years he survived , far-sighted and unembittered , until he finally achieved his ambition . |
8 | I mean if you were n't in at whe when you were in your third and fourth year , it was a four year er training , er in third and fourth years you were allowed to stay out till ten o'clock at night . |
9 | His marriage in 1914 to Florence Emily Dugdale , his companion and secretary for many years , and 40 years his junior , brought a much needed order and peace to his later years . |
10 | Since 1964 , when I first worked ( and lived ) in the region , what I have been seeing in babies and young children is starvation : a host of children of one and two years who can not sit up unaided , who do not or can not speak , whose skin is stretched so tightly over the chest and stomach that every curve of the breastbone and ribs stands out . |
11 | If this is between one and four years he suggested the safest route is a simple building society deposit account . |
12 | There was something unique about a hospital over the Christmas period , and most years he 'd made a point of working for as much of it as he could . |