Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] a [adj] year [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the Guaranteed Capital Bond is designed for a five year term , early encashment is allowed before the end of the fixed term . |
| 2 | The Institute itself has recently reopened after a five year refurbishment which included the installation of a new metal and glass roof and the conversion of the former tapestry gallery into one suitable for displaying pictures . |
| 3 | Singapore 's Raffles Hotel reopened after a three year face-lift costing £55 million . |
| 4 | Now we did go through dramatic exercises in the nineteen sixties , erm where we entered into a three year agreement er on wages settlement at national level . |
| 5 | The efficacy of the alcohol project and the non-punitive paradigm is demonstrated by the results reported from a three year evaluation study covering 152 offenders . |
| 6 | As effective economic policy can hardly be judged in less than a three year period , and political affiliation is also a long-term question , it seems entirely reasonable that aid should be committed over a three year period . |
| 7 | Their project was preceded by a two year pilot study , also funded by Northern Regional Health Authority , from 1987 to 1989 . |
| 8 | Some of the stimulus for this came from a survey of senior medical students , yet when 30 current house officers were consulted all but two said that , though they would be happy to have the opportunity to apply for both jobs at one hospital , they would not have applied for a one year block contract that restricted them to one hospital . |
| 9 | The change has been adopted as a prior year adjustment , so pre-tax profits for 1991/92 are £4.3m lower and for 1990/91 , on a restated basis , £3.8m lower . |
| 10 | How much would you pay for that , if that were you , if you were thirty , looking for a thirty year plan , guaranteed to keep in line with inflation , thousand pounds a month . |
| 11 | It is looking for a 60 year franchise that could be terminated by the Government at 10 year intervals . |
| 12 | A recommendation that the application be granted for a one year period . |
| 13 | A recommendation that the application be granted for a one year period . |
| 14 | She is available with a three or four double cabin layout with the option of two or three heads and is built with a 5 year hull guarantee , using the latest moulding and construction techniques incorporating bi-directional materials , isothalic gelcoats and resins with carbon fibre or Kevlar at high stress areas . |
| 15 | It 's hoped it will prevent a repetition of the sexual and physical abuse that some pupils suffered over a five year period . |
| 16 | When these films made over a twenty year period have , on rare occasions , been seen by Western audiences , critics have referred to him as neo-neo-realist or post-Brechtian film-maker . |
| 17 | Both groups of students will be tracked over a 2 year period . |
| 18 | The data were collected over a 22 year period during which the frequency of diagnosis of endometriosis increased dramatically , with , for example , the reported incidence at time of laparoscopic sterilisation rising from <5% to 18% . |
| 19 | The change in accounting policy is reflected as a prior year adjustment . |
| 20 | ONE of the founders of successful North Yorkshire food group Dalepak has died after a two year battle against leukaemia . |
| 21 | The project consists of three linked studies : in-depth interviews with 100 members of the general population ; exploratory interviews with 30 solicitors who work in the field of probate ; examination of a sample of 1,000 wills , drawn from a 40 year period . |
| 22 | Six countries bordering the Black Sea — Bulgaria , Georgia , Romania , Russia , Turkey and the Ukraine — have agreed on a three year programme to tackle pollution of its waters , after an international scientific group warned that it faced ecological death unless urgent measures were taken . |
| 23 | They 're embarked on a ten year project to clean restore and preserve the Fairford windows . |
| 24 | Archivists have embarked on a three year project to meet the growing public demand for access to ancient documents . |
| 25 | Sebastian Arcos Bergnes , vice-president of an unofficial human rights group , was brought to trial in early October for ‘ enemy propaganda ’ ; the prosecution has called for a six year sentence . |
| 26 | The ceremony meant an unscheduled return to work for Christine as she had been off work with a broken hip , but was well on the way to recovery and set for a New Year return . |
| 27 | She returned after a ten year absence , this time as director of ACARTE , an arts education programme linked to the Gulbenkian 's Centre of Modern Art , consolidating the respect she held as one of Portugal 's cultural leaders . |
| 28 | As the reader will appreciate , the degree of risk varies depending on the nature , size and use of each loan , e.g. a three month trade finance loan compared with a twelve year project loan . |
| 29 | That is why we were reckoning on a 10 year transition . |
| 30 | We were staying with my in-laws and were all invited to a New Year party by the Wragg family next door but one . |