Example sentences of "a [noun] [prep] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the clubs which had to be dragged screaming into the national club competition , the All Ireland League , two seasons ago after dithering and delaying a decision for years . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been all right as a weed for years . |
| 3 | Abso , absolutely , you see because if you take — last year we had er one of our winners er a lady called Liz Harris , who 's been knocking on the door and trying to get established as a writer for years and years and years . |
| 4 | It was clear to him she was just a playmate of years long gone . |
| 5 | I would n't think it 's been played in a cinema for years . |
| 6 | If the mortgagor is a lessee for years he effects the mortgage by a sub-lease . |
| 7 | Mr Blair claimed the people of Britain were ready for a change after years of Conservative mismanagement . |
| 8 | Interests in land for a term of years ( leaseholds ) were originally regarded , not as interests in the land , but as contractual rights . |
| 9 | A leasehold estate is measured by a fixed period of time ; it is often called a term of years , though a tenancy for weeks or months is equally a leasehold . |
| 10 | Tenure is now only important as between a lessor for a term of years and his lessee . |
| 11 | The Law of Property Act 1925 reduces the number of legal estates in the land to two — a fee simple absolute in possession , and a term of years absolute . |
| 12 | The mortgagor demises the land to the mortgagee for a term of years absolute , subject to a proviso that the term shall cease when the mortgagor repays the loan . |
| 13 | The wardens of a number of royal forests — including Windsor , Clarendon , Feckenham , Galtres , the Forest of Dean and the Forest of the Peak in Derbyshire — were appointed by royal letters patent , usually to hold office during the king 's pleasure , but sometimes for a term of years , and exceptionally , as a special mark of royal favour , for life . |
| 14 | Copyhold was by inheritance in thirteen out of twenty-five Buckinghamshire manors surveyed in the reigns of Edward VI and Mary ; on two there were lifeholds only , and at three either a term of years or tenure at will ; six had a medley of all modes . |
| 15 | leasehold , the proper name for this being ‘ a term of years absolute ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ The only estates in land which are capable of subsisting or of being conveyed or created at law are — ( a ) An estate in fee simple absolute in possession ; ( b ) A term of years absolute . |
| 17 | ‘ Term of years absolute ’ means a term of years … either certain or liable to determination by notice , re-entry , operation of law , or by a provision for cesser on redemption , or in any other event ( other than the dropping of a life , or the determination of a determinable life interest ) ; … and in this definition the expression ‘ term of years ’ includes a term for less than a year , or for a year or years and a fraction of a year or from year to year ; … |
| 18 | This bizarre outcome results from the application of an ancient and technical rule of law which requires the maximum duration of a term of years to be ascertainable from the outset . |
| 19 | In Surrey and Sussex , for example , customary tenures were still common in the seventeenth century , but just across the border in Kent they were rare ; Kentish families were either freeholders or else they held their land on a yearly basis or by a lease for a term of years . |
| 20 | By the end of the Middle Ages there were various categories of copyholder , the best placed being those who held by inheritance with the entry fine to the land being fixed , while the less fortunate held for a term of life , with an uncertain entry fine to be paid by the successor , or even , although this was unusual , held only for a term of years ( 79 , p.47 ; 82 , pp.60–2 ) . |
| 21 | ( 1 ) The only estates in land which are capable of subsisting or of being conveyed or created at law are — ( a ) An estate in fee simple absolute in possession ; ( b ) A term of years absolute . |
| 22 | ( 2 ) The only interests or charges in or over land which are capable of subsisting or of being conveyed or created at law are — ( a ) An easement , right or privilege in or over land for an interest equivalent to an estate in fee simple absolute in possession or a term of years absolute ; ( b ) A rentcharge in possession issuing out of or charged on land being either perpetual or for a term of years absolute ; ( c ) A charge by way of legal mortgage ; ( d ) … any other similar charge on land which is not created by an instrument ; ( e ) Rights of entry exercisable over or in respect of a legal term of years absolute , or annexed , for any purpose , to a legal rentcharge . |
| 23 | ( 2 ) The only interests or charges in or over land which are capable of subsisting or of being conveyed or created at law are — ( a ) An easement , right or privilege in or over land for an interest equivalent to an estate in fee simple absolute in possession or a term of years absolute ; ( b ) A rentcharge in possession issuing out of or charged on land being either perpetual or for a term of years absolute ; ( c ) A charge by way of legal mortgage ; ( d ) … any other similar charge on land which is not created by an instrument ; ( e ) Rights of entry exercisable over or in respect of a legal term of years absolute , or annexed , for any purpose , to a legal rentcharge . |
| 24 | However , there have always been leases without rent ( for example , mortgages ) and the statutory definition of a term of years absolute is clear on this point : |
| 25 | 205(1) ( xxvii ) " Term of years absolute " means a term of years ( taking effect either in possession or in reversion whether or not at a rent ) with or without impeachment for waste , subject or not to another legal estate , and either certain or liable to determination by notice , re-entry , operation of law , or by a provision for cesser on redemption , or in any other event ( other than the dropping of a life , or the determination of a determinable life interest ) ; but does not include any term of years determinable with life or lives or with the cesser of a determinable life interest , nor , if created after the commencement of this Act , a term of years which is not expressed to take |
| 26 | 205(1) ( xxvii ) " Term of years absolute " means a term of years ( taking effect either in possession or in reversion whether or not at a rent ) with or without impeachment for waste , subject or not to another legal estate , and either certain or liable to determination by notice , re-entry , operation of law , or by a provision for cesser on redemption , or in any other event ( other than the dropping of a life , or the determination of a determinable life interest ) ; but does not include any term of years determinable with life or lives or with the cesser of a determinable life interest , nor , if created after the commencement of this Act , a term of years which is not expressed to take |
| 27 | In order to be legal a lease must also be for a term of years absolute , according to s. 1(1) ( b ) , Law of Property Act 1925 . |
| 28 | Term Characteristic Six months Part II of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 does not apply to a tenancy for a term of years certain not exceeding six months unless : ( 1 ) it contains provision for renewing the term or extending it beyond six months from its beginning ; or ( 2 ) the tenant has been in occupation for a period which , together with any period during which any predecessor in his business was in occupation , exceeds twelve months ( Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 , s43(3) ) . |
| 29 | One year A tenant may only serve a request for a new tenancy under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 , s26 , if his tenancy was granted for a term of years certain exceeding one year or for a term of years certain and thereafter from year to year ( Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 , s26(1) ) . |
| 30 | One year A tenant may only serve a request for a new tenancy under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 , s26 , if his tenancy was granted for a term of years certain exceeding one year or for a term of years certain and thereafter from year to year ( Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 , s26(1) ) . |