Example sentences of "years and [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The narrow wooded valleys of the forest — the fictional home of author A. A. Milne 's children 's hero , Winnie the Pooh — date back 5,000 years and support a variety of rare plants and animals . |
| 2 | WILLIAM was ordained as a Church of Scotland Minister but later became an army Chaplain ; he served in India for several years and wrote a series of books on the country which are still highly regarded . |
| 3 | Mr relied on the same table to produce a figure of twenty point two five pounds on a life expectancy of fifty five years and accepted a reduction to twenty for the whole life multiplier . |
| 4 | It 's given miners a lot of service over the years and eased a lot of the er distress of the at work . |
| 5 | The Christian Democratic People 's Party met in September 1989 for the first time in 40 years and elected a permanent leadership , claiming a membership of 3,000 . |
| 6 | For example , if you have been employed for four years and earn a basic salary of £40,000 , one hardly need emphasise the difference between the value of your rights if you are eligible just for the statutory minimum of four weeks ' notice and the scale of your claim if you are on , say , a three-year rolling contract . |
| 7 | A fresh look could be taken at some of these , in order to determine their effectiveness in helping parishes both to respond to the liturgical changes of recent years and to explore a wider repertoire of music . |
| 8 | She says that it could take at least ten years and cost a considerable amount of cash . |
| 9 | Congregationalist , Philip Doddridge preached here for 22 years and became a famous local figure . |
| 10 | It did n't help me that I was a common-law wife for 18 years and had a child . |
| 11 | Only that he had been up at San Carlos about two years and had a wife that was supposed to be very pretty and about fifteen years younger than he was . |
| 12 | Yeah I genuinely look all I can say about this new album is if I 'd have continued recording for the last twenty odd years and had a sustained recording career like Cliff continued singing , this would have been the album that I would 've ended up doing anyway . |
| 13 | The Brownes and their descendants lived here for many years and played a prominent part in the life of the village . |
| 14 | PRESIDENT Bill Clinton last night prepared the country for a painful package of tax increases and spending cuts , saying he was trying to ‘ change a direction of 12 years and take a new course ’ for the economy that would quickly provide half a million new jobs . |
| 15 | But last Wednesday , BNFL unveiled the completed plant and said it would recoup its costs in ten years and make a £500m profit . |
| 16 | The development of the system spanned more than twenty years and achieved a degree of success in terms of its defined objectives . |
| 17 | I was wise beyond my nineteen years and kept a sharp weather eye on all the human kites and ravens attracted by Benjamin 's generosity . |
| 18 | The measure of life events used was one which had been developed by Brown over a number of years and represents a major methodological improvement over previous approaches . |
| 19 | Although CD-A has only been available commercially since 1983 , we can estimate its likely performance over ten years and use a mix of actual and projected penetrations in our analysis . |
| 20 | The troubles had deep roots in the previous hundred years and represented a breakdown in much of the aristocratic social order which the classical forms of houses and estates concealed rather than coerced . |
| 21 | It combined with a pattern of events that rocked local life for the next twenty years and reiterated a strong belief in Sussex 's particular backwardness . |
| 22 | Judge Harold Hewitt sentenced Randhawa , 21 , of Heron Drive , Darlington , to 15 months imprisonment suspended for two years and attached a supervision order . |
| 23 | Is it a recent alliance , or does it stretch back a few years and involve a few other deals ? |
| 24 | However , the under 20 age group includes 18–19-year-old mothers whose children , under conditions of relatively low levels of overall infant mortality , have about the same low , or even lower , risk of dying during the first year of life as those born to women in the age group 25–29 years and face a much lower risk than those born to mothers below 18 years of age . |
| 25 | Pat Kennedy and Gordon Brailsford , regulars at the Arsenal Tavern , have supported the club for a combined 80 years and believe a swoop for Wimbledon pair Robbie Earle and Warren Barton is the answer . |
| 26 | It has a continuous history of woodland cover going back 700 years and provides a habitat for a huge variety of plant , bird and butterfly life . |
| 27 | She could look back down on her twenty-two years and see a tall handsome man , and she recalled his words a few minutes ago , ‘ Sorrow does n't last . ’ |
| 28 | Having ‘ given his best ’ to the centre for four years and taken a major role in setting it up , he obviously felt ‘ very disappointed ’ he would n't be part of its new phase . |
| 29 | Loans under £15,000 are for up to five years and have a fixed interest rate to help you predict your outgoings . |
| 30 | To belong , a dealer must have been in business for three years and have a proven reputation for expertise . |