Example sentences of "year [conj] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Older people often find it easier to talk of their childhood and early years than their current problems . |
| 2 | Younger by four years than his go-getting elder brother , Ryan was basically easygoing , with no driving ambitions , content just to get by . |
| 3 | Peter Holland Tyne Tees reporter : ‘ I 've been with TTTV in Middlesbrough for 18 years so my feelings are the merger should sort out the wasteful nonsense we 've had there doubling up on news stories . ’ |
| 4 | Moreover , Quentin Joyce , his brother , had known for at least ten years that their father was American by naturalisation . |
| 5 | Beyond this there is little agreement , and the women 's weekly magazines , for example , have argued strongly in recent years that their particular editorial qualities and high coverage of a female audience make them a superior medium even to TV for many products in , particularly , food and toiletry fields . |
| 6 | The story got about over the years that his lectures were very obscure . |
| 7 | Its co-founder and leading spirit is an Afrikaner farmer , Mr Dirk Mudge , who foresaw by a dozen years that his people would need allies for survival , and broke away from the whites-only Nationalist party to find black and brown ones . |
| 8 | It was not until my teenage years that my notions of which history was mine began to be complicated . |
| 9 | It is only in recent years that our indigenous antiquities have come to be worth enough on the market for systematic looting to be profitable in a financial sense . |
| 10 | The Opposition have complained for years that our determination to maintain an essential minimum safeguard for our country with a nuclear deterrent was somehow an obstacle to the necessary task of reducing the overblown nuclear arsenals of the super-powers , but President Yeltsin dealt with their arguments in one wholly destructive answer . |
| 11 | He married locally and remained blissfully happy with his wife for twelve years until her death . |
| 12 | The scene in the Fifties and Sixties was dominated by the handsome Coronation cars of 1953 , which operated the Promenade–Fleetwood service for some fifteen years until their untimely demise . |
| 13 | He was president of the county in 1964 and 1965 and was honorary secretary for 26 years until his death . |
| 14 | Those years until his birth as a bouncing , healthy six-pounder , were full of grief , especially for Mum . |
| 15 | However , he never did , and friends claim that the poor man had come across the result by accident and then spent the next six years until his death trying to find the combination again . |
| 16 | Regardless of all his achievements and fame , he never changed in attitude and throughout his years until his retirement remained loyal to Balmoral Golf Club in Belfast . |
| 17 | He stayed there for two years until his urge to move on took him to Hong Kong , and then , in 1894 , on a journey on foot and by horse from Shanghai to Rangoon . |
| 18 | Officials invited Durham CIU branch secretary Jack Amos , who had served with John as secretary of the club for nearly 23 years until his appointment to the county post , to hand over a colour TV set from the club and members . |
| 19 | She had been away from work for eight years and her second child was starting school when she saw an advertisement for a part-time market research executive . |
| 20 | Germany 's was the great industrial achievement of these years and her metals industry was the basis of her strength . |
| 21 | To add to the combination , she has lived in Scotland for eight years and her Indian father is a vicar . |
| 22 | By the time I moved in with Lucy and Joe , she 'd been divorced for a couple of years and her ex-husband had emigrated to America . |
| 23 | Caro 's widowed mother had remarried only in recent years and her new husband already had four children , all grown up and living away from home . |
| 24 | Julie has worked with the company for two years and her mother also works in the factory as a cleaner and canteen assistant . |
| 25 | Amanda Hornby has gardened here for 20 years and her husband ; he looks after the lawns . |
| 26 | Bridget O'Brien 's been fighting attempts by Barclay 's Bank to repossess her home for five years and her legal victory was welcomed by others with similar problems . |
| 27 | With its 14,000 workers , Dagenham may still be the company 's biggest centre of employment in the UK , it may have produced more than 10 million vehicles in the last 60 years and its name may be inseparable from Ford of Britain . |
| 28 | Coffee has been drunk in the Middle East for over a thousand years and its popularity spread rapidly throughout the world as explorers began to travel widely . |
| 29 | Given the revolution in business technology over the last twenty years and its implications for all aspects of business , there is a need for experts in the field of business communication . |
| 30 | AN ASSOCIATION for all former pupils and staff of St Hugh 's School , Birkenhead , has been established for about four years and its main function is an annual reunion mass held on or near the Feast of St Hugh of Lincoln . |