Example sentences of "and [prep] [adj] years " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | And for two years Pula lived a luxurious life , safe behind a high fence , feeding on imported peanuts , strawberry yoghurt , and fresh vegetables . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | From then on it became big game and for fifty years the only ones to leave China were dead . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She has always relied on instinct , and for 55 years it has served her well . |
| 12 | After Nasser , he says , his themes seemed to refer to a vanished society and for five years Mahfouz wrote no books . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She kept up her musical links until her death and for five years was resident musician at the Royal Hotel , Clacton . |
| 15 | 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* ! |
| 16 | His name was Dr Georges Flandrin and for five years he had been treating the Shah for cancer . |
| 17 | Previously , he worked as a manager with Goodman Carpets of Kettering and for five years with C. F. Harrison in Northampton . |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Queen Victoria always needed the support of a dedicated man and for nineteen years she found it in Brown . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Barber was a member of the council of the Royal Institute of Chemistry ( 1960–63 ) and vice-president ( 1963–64 ) , chairman of the Essex Section ( 1967–68 ) , and for many years a member of other institute committees . |
| 28 | Sedgwick , born in Dent in 1785 and for many years Professor of Geology at Trinity College , Cambridge , and a friend of Wordsworth and Darwin , describes the galleries of Dent vividly and delightfully in his book , A Memorial To Cowgill Chapel 1868 : ‘ The galleries were places of mirth and glee and active happy industry for there might be heard the buzz of the spinning wheel and the hum and the songs of those who were carrying out the labours of the day . ’ |
| 29 | There were several stations in Colombo and for many years the principal mode of transport within the city was the train . |
| 30 | He exhibits protecting and guarding qualities and for many years has been used as a Schutzhund sport dog . |