Example sentences of "and [prep] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Immediately before school entry ( provided at least three years have elapsed from the third and last dose of the primary course ) and between 15–19 years or before leaving school are the times for boosters . |
| 2 | Since 1900 , Britain has been governed by outright , formal coalitions of two or more parties for 7 years between 1915 and 1922 , for 1 year from 1931 to 1932 , and for 5 years from 1940 to 1945 . |
| 3 | . In nineteen forty one on June the first clothes rationing began , and for that year twenty coupons were issued . |
| 4 | Contraceptive precautions should be continued until a woman has a period or any bleeding for two years if ages 45–50 , and for one year if over 50 . |
| 5 | After a previous round of talks , held in Moscow earlier in the month , Niyazov decreed on May 26 that conscripts in the Turkmen armed forces should serve for 18 months ( but for two years with the navy and for one year by those with higher education ) . |
| 6 | He has been with the police for 19 years , and has served at Colchester , Chelmsford , police HQ and for two years worked for Scotland Yard in conjunction with Interpol . |
| 7 | And for two years Pula lived a luxurious life , safe behind a high fence , feeding on imported peanuts , strawberry yoghurt , and fresh vegetables . |
| 8 | He taught for a year in Scarborough and for two years at Beaumaris Grammar School before being appointed in 1906 to an assistant lectureship in the department of Celtic at what became University College , Cardiff . |
| 9 | There 's a very good example of that some years ago er in one of these groups I had erm a student had a severe stutter problem and he said that he had hypnosis and for two years he was fine , he had no stutter and suddenly one day under stress it came back an and ever since erm then he was having some other kind of treatment I think , but er but that 's typical . |
| 10 | And for two years a de-icing service run jointly with the UK Department of Transport has advised local authorities on proper road maintenance in freezing weather and helped promote safer driving . |
| 11 | From then on it became big game and for fifty years the only ones to leave China were dead . |
| 12 | It made Beesley one of the best-known survivors of the disaster , and for fifty years — right up to the time I met him — he was regularly consulted by maritime historians , film researchers , journalists , souvenir hunters , bores , conspiracy theorists and vexatious litigants . |
| 13 | On March 6 Eduard Shevardnadze , the former Soviet Foreign Minister and for 13 years first secretary of the central committee of the Communist Party of Georgia , returned to his native Georgia for first time in three years . |
| 14 | She has always relied on instinct , and for 55 years it has served her well . |
| 15 | After Nasser , he says , his themes seemed to refer to a vanished society and for five years Mahfouz wrote no books . |
| 16 | Yesterday they each sentenced him — for six years for leading a gang rape attack on the 14-year-old , and for five years consecutively for raping and robbing the older girl . |
| 17 | She kept up her musical links until her death and for five years was resident musician at the Royal Hotel , Clacton . |
| 18 | Membership for the world 's biggest junior stamp club must be the world 's biggest bargain ; £3 for two years — and for five years , just £5* ! |
| 19 | His name was Dr Georges Flandrin and for five years he had been treating the Shah for cancer . |
| 20 | Previously , he worked as a manager with Goodman Carpets of Kettering and for five years with C. F. Harrison in Northampton . |
| 21 | Well she does and the hardest part , I think there is when she comes down in the morning and for five years he was there |
| 22 | The programmes of study were introduced in the classroom for 5 year olds in the autumn of 1989 and for 11 year olds in 1990 . |
| 23 | Juniper Green Tennis Club was formed in 1979 and for 11 years it has provided a valuable service to the local community in Juniper Green and Baberton Mains . |
| 24 | He was formerly Director of Consumer Affairs at the Office of Fair Trading and for nine years until the end of 1986 he was Director of the National Consumer Council . |
| 25 | in philosophy , Jesuit , and for eighteen years host of the television talk show Rencontres told The Art Newspaper , ‘ The museum was in virtual exile at Cité du Havre . |
| 26 | Queen Victoria always needed the support of a dedicated man and for nineteen years she found it in Brown . |
| 27 | Ms Macdougall , who has been with Hodder for three and a half years , was previously with Barrie & Jenkins and for 17 years at Secker , and has also run her own business . |
| 28 | He was a scholar and for many years studied to learn the ways of dragons ; he was proud but not stupid , and he learned all that the books could teach him , and then he set off on a long journey and captured two baby dragons and brought them home as pets . |
| 29 | They are regarded as a valuable source of meat , and for many years also supplied a US market for oil from the pilot whale melon . |
| 30 | Many ministers , the most famous of whom were J. Guinness Rogers and A. M. Fairbairn , wrote in the leading monthlies , at least the Liberal ones , and for many years the Congregational minister of Union Chapel , Islington , Henry Allon , edited the much respected British Quarterly Review . |