Example sentences of "four years [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our results suggest that endometriosis is less of a problem during pregnancy and the subsequent four years than it is at other times , although the finding was not significant . |
| 2 | UNION leaders yesterday paved the way for the electricians to be readmitted to the TUC — four years after they were expelled . |
| 3 | The court ruled that Jampa Ngodrup be deprived of his political rights for a further four years after he has served his 13-year sentence . |
| 4 | In 1758 , four years after he had added the clerkship of Richmond New Park Lodge to that he held at Hampton Court , when the comptroller of the works , Thomas Ripley [ q.v. ] , was dying , he wrote to Newcastle to apply for his post ; and although in the event the preferment went to Henry Flitcroft [ q.v. ] , it was by Newcastle 's ‘ immediate appointment ’ that Wright was promoted to the posts of master mason and deputy surveyor vacated by the latter . |
| 5 | Four years after he last took his ranting persona on the road , Elton seems both to have mellowed and to have honed his probings between surface and reality — using himself as exhibit A. |
| 6 | FOUR years after it was burned it to the ground in a disastrous fire , a Catholic church is rising from the ashes . |
| 7 | THE AUTHOR , Salman Rushdie , yesterday condemned the death edict against him as a ‘ terrorist threat ’ after Iran renewed its call for the sentence to be carried out four years after it was imposed . |
| 8 | Two to four years after you left for instance the Pru or one or two other companies they can still claw back commission if somebody cancels a life |
| 9 | In the four years since we looked at the Subaru estate , it 's gone upmarket with a bang . |
| 10 | Stock , Aitken and Waterman 's achievements in the four years since they had joined forces were — even in an industry known for its hyperbole — sensational . |
| 11 | It was four years since they had parted , and who knew how much he had changed during that time ? |
| 12 | She thought that her father probably now earned more than £100,000 a year , but she did not know for sure because it was nine years since she had last visited him , four years since she had last received a Christmas card from him . |
| 13 | Ian Snodin , back after four hamstrings and two knee operations , said : ‘ That was my first 90 minutes for two-and-a-half years , and it 's been four years since I played a full match in midfield . |
| 14 | Must be about three or four years since I 've been in there . |
| 15 | I say it was say it was about three , four years since I 've been in there so |
| 16 | I cried in surprise , for it had been four years since he disappeared . |
| 17 | Carden is Europe 's most northerly commercial vineyard and in the four years since it opened has already established itself in the wine market . |
| 18 | Perhaps the oak would lay there for three or four years before we used it . |
| 19 | I was 24 and had been married for four years before I discovered I was a lesbian . |
| 20 | I 'd probably been teaching for about four years before I began to have that confidence . |
| 21 | Hadrian served as archon ( chief magistrate ) of the city four years before he became emperor . |
| 22 | ‘ Terry had been on tea for four years before he first began using horse . ’ |
| 23 | He 's only aged eleven , he 's only got four years before he has to have something assessed anyway . |
| 24 | The Left now completely rejected MacDonald 's concept of " gradualism " which had not been subjected to searching criticism until some three or four years before he left the party . |
| 25 | Part-time cleaner Betty Woods , 60 , paid full contributions for just four years before she wed Ron , 62 . |
| 26 | She needed four years before she knew she wanted to live here . |
| 27 | ( It took another four years before it limply reached the screen with Richard Benjamin . ) |
| 28 | Answer guide : In this case it would seem that for the cars they should be depreciated over four years as they are unlikely to do 60,000 miles . |
| 29 | The reduction in the and the persistent rise the depreciation charge , which is going over the last four years as we maintain a high level of capital spending . |
| 30 | The Prince of Wales kissed his wife in public in February the first time in four years as she presented prizes to players in his polo match on their Indian tour . |