Example sentences of "[noun sg] for the [adj] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is believed that the National Gallery has committed its entire purchase grant for the next three years towards the cost of the Holbein and , given the fact that purchase grants for national museums have been frozen since 1985 , other museums are similarly powerless both to acquire when the works come onto the market , and to match their export price when their licences are suspended . |
| 2 | There 's me been putting sugar in his Ovaltine for the last fifty years . |
| 3 | The government 's overall aim was to freeze spending on state-owned enterprises , social security and defence for the next four years . |
| 4 | Small wonder that the estimates of global sea-level rise for the next 100 years are very tentative . |
| 5 | SINBAD has been cleaning the windows in Channel 4 's Brookside since 1984 , although he has only been on a regular contract for the last two years . |
| 6 | Subject to that undertaking , I am pleased to announce today that I have increased the funding planned by the corporation by £22 million , bringing provision for the next three years to £130 million . |
| 7 | By the early part of the last century two kinds of hospital had emerged that set the pattern for finance and provision for the next 150 years ( Abel-Smith , 1964 ) . |
| 8 | Subject to budgetary approval , the plan ratified by both houses of the federal parliament will mean growth of 16 per cent pa in the science budget for the next four years . |
| 9 | The current account had been in deficit for the last 17 years and by late 1990 constituted around 7 per cent of gross national product ( GNP ) . |
| 10 | They are DEVOTED to each other — she 's seeing a toy boy and he 's had a mistress for the last fourteen years |
| 11 | The Rev Leslie Gready was led from the Friday morning service to the grounds of St Cuthbert 's Church , Darlington , where he has been vicar for the last ten years . |
| 12 | Andrew 's wife , Abi , a former production manager , has been a freelance photographer for the last five years . |
| 13 | Mrs Simmons , a photographer for the last 15 years , also achieved one of two merits from the BIPP for a photograph of the Cornmill centre in Darlington . |
| 14 | Firstly , he has been involved with the team as a test driver for the last two years ' development of the incredibly successful active-ride suspension system which powered Mansell to the world title . |
| 15 | The latest version of the Park 's Structure Plan , which sets out the basic strategy of the control of development in the park for the next 10–15 years , states that the visual impact of windfarms outweighs the net benefit to global conservation . |
| 16 | Thomson , singles winner for the past three years , is not at Melton Mowbray in the Manchester Unity Championships to thwart Allcock this year — he is playing in Australia — but there were others . |
| 17 | It is here that Duval-Leroy , supplier of Sainsbury 's Champagne for the last 14 years , has its headquarters . |
| 18 | ‘ I have been a car park season ticket holder for the last five years , during which the cost has risen from about 20 pence to £150 per day . ’ |
| 19 | But the terms of funding for the last two years of the programme remain uncertain . |
| 20 | Mr Cooney said the reason Northern Ireland had received only £1.04bn European funding for the next seven years , while the Republic got £7.8bn , was because the province did not have its own negotiators in Brussels . |
| 21 | In recognition of the importance of our work , I am pleased to report that our Central Government grant was increased last year to £140,00 with guaranteed funding for the next three years . |
| 22 | The house alone had been like a dream come true after the two-bedroomed flat on the outskirts of Stirling where she and her mother had lived in near penury for the past seven years since Shiona 's father 's death . |
| 23 | Her father has been an elder of the kirk for the last twenty years . |
| 24 | It is estimated that a modest increase from the present 1.8% , to 2% of total institutional expenditure , would enable us to maintain the services at their present level for the next five years . |
| 25 | We expect BP Exploration 's production to remain broadly at 1992 's level for the next few years and then to rise after 1995 . |
| 26 | State employees will trap and shoot up to 75 per cent of the wolves in a region southwest of Fairbanks and keep numbers to that level for the next few years . |
| 27 | Now owned by Varity Corporation , Perkins has celebrated its diamond jubilee by signing a multi-million pound contract to supply Caterpillar for the next 10 years . |
| 28 | It was a thank you to the 70 maintenance crew who have serviced the planes at the base for the last 22 years . |
| 29 | It was maintained with local support for the next three years , then in 1975 it acquired a three-year grant from the Council on Learning Resources ( CLR ) . |
| 30 | Andrew Jean , her lieutenant for the past two years , was a few yards away , skin in shreds , orange beehive hairdo picked to pieces . |