Example sentences of "year and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the reason they can not press on to victory is transparent : the central planning dear to people like Mr Li and Mr Chen stands no chance of coping with 20m or more urban unemployed , a labour force that will grow by 95m in the next five years and rising expectations of wealth . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | On New Year 's Eve we skip the next four years and go straight into 1977 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | At 39 Castle Street , the author of Waverley lived for twenty-four years and wrote many of his famous novels . |
| 6 | The earliest of these were collected in a volume of Cantiones which he published in 1575 jointly with Tallis , thus marking Elizabeth I 's grant to them of a twenty-one year monopoly of music printing ; others followed in two sets of Cantiones sacrae ( 1589 and 1591 ) and two of Gradualia ( 1605 and 1607 ) , a corpus of work almost as varied in technique and sometimes as ‘ madrigalian ’ in word-painting as that of Lassus — some of which Byrd may well have known — or of Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder ( 1543–88 ) who was his friend and colleague in the Queen 's service for sixteen years and wrote not only ‘ madrigalian ’ motets but simple Latin hymn-settings in a style very similar to Byrd 's . |
| 7 | BG has claimed that the Ofgas plan could cost £3 billion over ten years and cause widespread disruption to the business during the transition period . |
| 8 | We have studied postmenopausal women with inflammatory bowel disease given HRT for two years and followed changes in their bone density by annual measurements . |
| 9 | Coun Bill Wade , chairman of the district council 's housing committee , said some elderly people had lived at Dene House for years and to move would have ‘ a catastrophic effect on their lives ’ . |
| 10 | Their happy relationship flourished for forty years and led to about two hundred plants being introduced into Europe from America . |
| 11 | Hollywood had always been prepared to use social realism in the service of melodrama and especially in the service of making prestige films out of literary classics and this practice remained in evidence during these years and led to such notable films as An American Tragedy and All Quiet on the Western Front . |
| 12 | Roosevelt served for thirteen years and led America through the depression , into the second world war and emerging at the other end as |
| 13 | The gallery ‘ gelbe MUSIK ’ has been catering for the specialists and the curious for ten years and celebrates its anniversary this spring . |
| 14 | John and his partner Joseph Cooper ran the mill for a number of years and prospered , but the Coopers ' dependence on export was their ultimate downfall , as trade fluctuated during the French wars . |
| 15 | Not only did he own Werner Lines , a worldwide shipping empire with more than vessels in commission , but he had also branched out into the freight industry over the past four years and succeeded in cornering an important section of its competitive market by buying out a succession of small , struggling companies and amalgamating them under an experienced board of directors answerable only to him . |
| 16 | Produce common size profit and loss accounts for the five years and analyse these statements with particular reference to the profitability of Belper . |
| 17 | She said , ‘ Because I 've been feeding you for all these years and buying your shoes and your clothes ! ’ |
| 18 | Separate baptisteries continued to be built for many years and separate , free-standing campaniles were the general rule ; these features acted as watch towers and were symbols of local importance . |
| 19 | Reports on March 9 had also indicated that the World Bank had warned that the present situation might " lead Poland to hyperinflation , obliterate the achievements of the past two years and plunge the economy into even greater recession " . |
| 20 | Former land owners could still gain full compensation for land up to a value of 1,000,000 forint if they undertook to cultivate the land for five years and registered themselves as entrepreneurs under a system of " entrepreneurial assistance " . |
| 21 | The knowledge which the parents possess will be based on perhaps a superficial understanding built up over many years and based largely on misconceptions . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | We need to start somewhere in an analysis and it might be useful to review the rate of penetration of another , related consumer electronics platform in recent years and to use this as some guide to the penetration we might expect from multimedia platforms . |
| 24 | He had been old for years and grown so fat in the stomach that he puffed when he stooped . |
| 25 | The economic programme presented in February , which relaxed the monetarist controls implemented over the previous two years and sought to lift the economy out of recession by investing in state enterprises and boosting imports [ see pp. 38774-75 ] , was rejected by the Sejm ( lower house of parliament ) on March 5 by 171 votes to 138 with 38 abstentions . |
| 26 | Well , what is a man to do , deprived at a stroke of his habitual daily employment for forty years and living for the first time with his widowed younger sister who is always surveying him for signs of disorder , be they physical , emotional or sartorial , and nagging him about unpunctuality for meals . |
| 27 | The object of this research is to begin analysis of the tonal system of British Jamaican Creole as spoken by British born people aged 16-19 years and living in Dudley , West Midlands . |
| 28 | Baldwin ( 1977 ) traced all child victims of severe abuse ( damage on the scale of multiple fractures , internal injuries , brain damage and death ) who were under the age of five years and living in North East Wiltshire over an eight-year period . |
| 29 | Tao Chu , in contrast , seemed younger than his eight years and wore his heart embroidered like a peacock on his sleeve . |
| 30 | aggregate creditors due after five years and secured creditors |