Example sentences of "one [prep] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had my first dog for 18 months and have had my second one for 3½ years . ’ |
| 2 | On Monday , the Today programme , which has been the most heavily anti-Tory one for many years , decided that Michael Heseltine should be allowed to appear . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've heard people talking about Chris De Burgh 's new album — first one for three years — and Springsteen — first one for five years . |
| 4 | Martin Scott , managing director Central Region , presented Brian Hodgson with a 10-year award and Naya Youssoufian with one for five years . |
| 5 | She said oh been saying he 's gon na build one for five years but he 's never got round to it . |
| 6 | In addition to bringing down interest rates by another two per cent , he has to establish the right monetary policy after sticking to the wrong one for two years . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've heard people talking about Chris De Burgh 's new album — first one for three years — and Springsteen — first one for five years . |
| 8 | Abbey National has launched two new fixed interest mortgages — one for three years , and the other for five years . |
| 9 | One died seven years later of disseminated malignancy ; one after three years from alcoholism , another after one year from colonic carcinoma . |
| 10 | I do n't have sample question papers , but you do have one from previous years . |
| 11 | The reunion was a great success and Keith and joint organiser Jeryl Whitelock , who is a lecturer in International Marketing at Salford have already been asked to organise the next one in five years time , when the graduates will mark the twentieth anniversary of successfully completing the degree . |
| 12 | Although such censorship is not the most common type of censorship in libraries , it is the one in recent years that has threatened to be the most damaging . |
| 13 | I I I think erm a lot of teachers would now look back on those days with er a certain fondness now bearing in mind what 's what 's happened since and the the the succession of education secretaries we 've had since since then I mean had the only one in recent years who I would say has attempted a genuine dialogue with the teachers and tried to do something constructive is John McGregor . |
| 14 | The housing and local government portfolio has proved a contraversial one in recent years with the battle over the poll tax , the growth of homelessness and the housing boom and bust . |
| 15 | On the NRA 's own admission , there will be an inadequate flow in one in three years , and no flow at all in one in 10 . |
| 16 | Currently , approximately 50% of all patients undergoing a sphincterotomy for bile duct stones have their gall bladder in situ , and of these 6–20% subsequently require a cholecystectomy for biliary pain or cholecystitis during a follow up of one to six years [ 2.11 ] . |
| 17 | Weighing less than 100 grams , the young parr leave and spend one to five years at sea before returning , weighing up to 20 kg . |
| 18 | These are tenancies that are for a fixed period of one to five years , after which the landlord has a guaranteed right to repossess the property . |
| 19 | According to Barclays Computer Operations , Barclay 's services arm which manages the data centres , the old kit was installed over a period of one to four years . |
| 20 | Of the domestic borrowers , local authorities issued , in the years between the mid-1950s and the early 1980s , a large volume of stocks ( over five years to maturity ) and negotiable bonds ( from one to four years to maturity ) ; but in recent years it has been government policy to centralise most public-sector borrowing and as a result public issues by local authorities have all but ceased . |
| 21 | In the current market , availability of funds presents no problem for house purchase ; many fixed rate mortgages are on offer from a wide range of lending institutions enabling prospective purchasers to stabilise their out-goings for the next one to two years . |
| 22 | First of all there is a phase of population increase , where mortality is low and adult body size is up to 50 per cent larger than normal ; the resulting high density promotes dispersal , shortens the breeding season , and delays sexual maturity in juveniles ; and this is followed by a phase of decline , which may be rapid or spaced over one to two years , and during which mortality is high and adult size decreases . |
| 23 | fine red wines may be matured in oak barrels for one to two years . |
| 24 | If imports account for close to 50% of UK sales in those sectors , a 10% devaluation would directly raise the RPI by around 2% over a period of , say , one to two years . |
| 25 | In 1987 , 9.3 per cent of those who divorced had only lasted one to two years of marriage ; 28.6 per cent of those divorced did so after five to nine years of marriage . |
| 26 | It may take time to move from number ten to number one in the world , plus you will require one to two years for tiny adjustments in your game . ’ |
| 27 | Indeed , the spokesman said that Cognito 's break-even point is around 3,500 subscribers , and that it is ahead of its plan to achieve this within the next one to two years . |
| 28 | IBM has got to the point where it has baptised the concept of the RS/6000 Cluster Service Offering , but a twist in DEC 's plan is to enable alien workstations to be included in the cluster — according to Electronic News , it conceives of creating clusters of Alpha-based workstations within one to two years and then to move on to embracing alien machines , with the benefit that stations could be used as stand-alone units when no parallel work was running . |
| 29 | The limitation of time for suit was increased from one to two years . |
| 30 | Thus , Dip.AD courses were subsumed by those leading to the award of a BA degree with honours and the one to two years higher diploma courses to an MA degree . |