Example sentences of "years for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The US trade representative has said it would be like writing a cheque for $17,000 payable over ten years for every family of four in the world . |
| 2 | To qualify for the full basic pension , someone would need to have paid national insurance contributions for most of their working life ( usually 44 years for a man ) . |
| 3 | Your working life , for this purpose , is normally considered to be 44 years for a woman and 49 years for a man ( i.e. age 16 until pension age ) , but it may be less if you were of working age but not in insurable employment when the National Insurance Scheme started in 1948 . |
| 4 | During 1990 the Appeal Court upheld prison sentences of 6 years for a confidence trickster who raised barely 1000 , 7 years for a man who obtained 36,000 using fraudulent cheques , and 12 years for a Post Office employee who defrauded his employer of 136,000 ( Guardian 29.8.90 ) . |
| 5 | Electricity , gas and water companies have sought many years for a way to read meters without visiting the customer 's premises . |
| 6 | It took some years for a lobby to emerge , strong enough to bring pressure to bear on the scandal of the continuing presence of the nineteenth-century slums . |
| 7 | FORMER Chancellor Lord Lawson has sold his luxury home after reducing the price by a quarter to £239,000 and waiting two years for a buyer . |
| 8 | Minimum of ten years for a plan . |
| 9 | I have waited 20 years for a decision on the Ardrossan-Saltcoats-Stevenston bypass , and I am sure that the Minister will give me a favourable result before I retire at the next election . |
| 10 | I do n't want to hold up this alteration , and I , like Mr , do n't want to wait three years for a decision . |
| 11 | Henning Albrechsten reckons that it takes three years for a telecottage to be able to function without subsidy . |
| 12 | It takes some 5 or 6 years for a nest to produce sexual insects , so that it would appear that the complete defoliation of the immediate area or the removal of the more palatable species would lead to deteriorating conditions for the ants . |
| 13 | The man , serving four years for a firearms offence , was on home leave and had failed to return . |
| 14 | Mobsters had enormous influence in America and , if his manager was poorly connected , a good boxer could find himself waiting for years for a title fight . |
| 15 | ‘ If she 'd been in love with Henry she 'd have agreed to be his mistress — not made him wait seven years for a divorce before she let him take her to bed . |
| 16 | would n't go for three years for a grant and just |
| 17 | A 90-day option to upgrade to three years for a total of £1,048 was also offered . |
| 18 | Tandy Corp 's Computer City subsidiary plans to expand in Europe this year : it already has superstores in Stockholm and Copenhagen and plans at least one more in Europe this year , although it 's not sure where ; Computer City — one step down from Tandy 's Incredible Universe fun palace stores — will open its 19th US superstore on April 1 in the Boston area and plans to open 16 new US superstores a year for the next three years for a total of 66 . |
| 19 | For example Ms X was rehoused , after waiting 13 years for a transfer , from a notorious council estate to a comfortable semi-detached house just outside Southall . |
| 20 | Imagine that you have been studying for 20 years for a qualification that will change your life , or waiting the same length of time to hear about a job you have applied for , the only job you have ever really wanted . |
| 21 | Having travelled a reasonable distance into wind ( you did wait three years for a day with a light breeze did n't you ? ) , apply some sideways cyclic to bank the model and start a turn . |
| 22 | Although it takes many years for a child to master the process of reading , once acquired , the skills are comprehensive and flexible enough to cope with a diversity of written material in a variety of fonts and formats ( including previously unknown ones such as unfamiliar handwriting ) . |
| 23 | The forests were cleared over the years for a variety of reasons : because people were scared of wolves , which roamed the area well into the seventeenth century ; to make sure travellers could see robbers , before robbers saw them ; to provide timber for shipbuilding : trees were felled and floated downstream through Loch Tummel and the River Tay to Perth . |
| 24 | The Spurs Club in London raised the magnificent sum of £760 in three years for a variety of armed services ' benevolent funds . |
| 25 | We had originally intended to freeze our budget at precisely the level that it has been at the last two years for a variety of reasons we have decided that it is sensible to actually bring it down yet further . |
| 26 | So if you have worked 30 years for a company that has 1/60th pension scheme , you will receive 30/60ths of your final pay — in other words , half . |
| 27 | He has been waiting two years for a donor and carries a bleeper everywhere — waiting for the call telling him one has been found at last . |
| 28 | TL typically produces an error term of plus/minus 5–10 per cent of the age , i.e. plus/minus 50–100 years for a TL age of 1000 years , plus/minus 100-200 years for 2000 years , and so on . |
| 29 | But it can take 10 years for a material to get on the list while officials develop a standard , which specifies physical and chemical properties of materials . |
| 30 | Even without demolition of walls , it may take only 20–30 years for a masonry building to disappear beneath the ground , but less substantial buildings can disappear even faster . |