Example sentences of "[noun] of years [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty-one years A lease for a term of years less than twenty-one is not registrable at HM Land Registry ( Land Registration Act 1925 , s8 ) . |
| 2 | And after the course of years perhaps I should respond , ‘ It was nice when the primroses were out … ’ or ‘ the leaves had turned golden … ’ or ‘ the snow was on the ground … ’ |
| 3 | Thirty or a little over if he was a day , and projecting all the self-assurance of years well used ! |
| 4 | It was clear to him she was just a playmate of years long gone . |
| 5 | He said : ‘ The Tories are trying to lay the blame on the ghost of years past . ’ |
| 6 | She did not have the stamina of years ago , but she would have to make it . |
| 7 | In some of these situations , even with the virtually unlimited manpower of years ago , the easiest solution was to work a continuous line of traps through the entrances . |
| 8 | Its basis followed on from the Plowden Committee 's recommendation ( Cmnd. 1432 , 1961 ) that : ‘ Regular surveys should be made of public expenditure as a whole , over a period of years ahead , and in relation to prospective resources ; decisions involving substantial future expenditure should be taken in light of these surveys . ’ |
| 9 | He went on ‘ improving ’ this poem over a long period of years so that the text usually printed shows many alterations from the original . |
| 10 | Mother Francis and her old school friend of years ago , Peggy Pine , discussed it long and often . |
| 11 | And if these plagues are carefully timed to occur a prime number of years apart , it makes it that much more difficult for the enemies to synchronize their own life cycles . |
| 12 | One problem for small businesses is that capital needs to be reinvested over a number of years yet there are no special allowances provided by the government for doing so . |
| 13 | Now , a number of years later , I have seen some of God 's plans for them come about and realize how much he has cared for them and kept them safe . |
| 14 | Other schools pigeon-hole you , something on the timetable grid , fed in at one end and popping out a set number of years later , certified . |
| 15 | Our chairman , Mr Denis Hill-Wood [ son of Sir Samuel ] , put it succinctly when he discussed the board 's role with me a number of years ago . |
| 16 | The Wesleyan Methodist chapel likewise closed a number of years ago , but serves the village well in its present capacity as the village hall . |
| 17 | I also had odd ends of three cones of that random yarn that was so popular a number of years ago . |
| 18 | One participant recollected attending an Inquiry into unemployment a number of years ago and asked the question : ‘ Has anything changed ? ’ |
| 19 | Erm a number of years ago we read in the paper that the Farnsfield borehole was being updated and |
| 20 | This game is based on the Simon game that was a hit with kids all over the U.K. a number of years ago . |
| 21 | Incidentally , the P-40 in the RAF Museum at Hendon was based on a picture my father had of FX760 ‘ GA- ? ’ which I had donated to the Museum a number of years ago for such a display . |
| 22 | The er the county council came forward with these policies as a result of comments that er districts made a number of years ago and perhaps er over a passage of time erm makes at least validity your point but I I remain of the the view that there is in the there is nothing in the county structure plan that sets out the basic objective of protecting the countryside and still feel that 's a valid objective within the structure plan erm within the structure plan er context . |
| 23 | ‘ The operation was carried out in Britain a number of years ago but failed and doctors here are unwilling to try it again . ’ |
| 24 | A number of years ago she worked in the social services department of Cleveland county council . |
| 25 | A number of years ago , I would have bought two papers on a Sunday , the Observer and the Sunday Times . |
| 26 | He did n't use it this time , I remember a number of years ago here in |
| 27 | I have a child who , a number of years ago , we as parents got very worried about him |
| 28 | Well , I have done the photography for the front cover and er of this particular book , but countryside books , who are the publishers , were asked a number of years ago to republish the old Berkshire village book and that has started a whole series of countryside village books , which now cover , I think , about thirty five different counties . |
| 29 | That was committee decision a number of years ago . |
| 30 | And er this divided this street into two but at probably a number of years before , it had been tunnelled in and the top part of the street was called Street and there , there was a slight hill run down to . |