Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is assumed that the personal and social significance of transport in general and driving in particular develops rapidly between the ages of 13 and 19 , and that the knowledge , attitudes and judgements relating to driving that develop during these years will have an important bearing on how young drivers behave on the road . |
| 2 | Mr Huxley Jones , of Fairlands Crescent , Rhuddlan , who was a branch manager with a plumbing supplies firm , has been pastoral steward at the local English Methodist Church for more than 20 years and a driver for the local meals-on-wheels service for eight years . |
| 3 | The council 's policy and finance subcommittee meets on Wednesday to consider a 10pc increase the firs t review for three years . |
| 4 | I mean for thirty years we feel like brothers and sisters with them , and it is unfortunate that Saddam Hussein has turned it all now against everybody . |
| 5 | Depending how quick they actually okay them erm I mean for two years , three years now they they 've just gone straight through with no queries at all . |
| 6 | The federal government of the United States of America embodies a separation of powers between the executive , headed by a President elected for four years , the legislative branch , Congress , which comprises the Senate ( with 100 members who sit for six years , one-third being elected every two years ) and the House of Representatives ( with 435 members elected every two years ) , and the judicial branch , headed by the Supreme Court . |
| 7 | My ambition at the moment is to make sure I qualify for this year 's Open Championship . ’ |
| 8 | You know , our policies are working , I mean after thirteen years |
| 9 | I mean after thirty years of policies our own real economy is shambles , growing unemployment . |
| 10 | Three principal features distinguished the 17 malignant from the 53 benign strictures in this series : ( 1 ) appearance late in the course of ulcerative colitis ( 61% probability of malignancy in strictures that develop after 20 years of disease v 0% probability in those occurring before 10 years ) ; ( 2 ) location proximal to the splenic flexure ( 86% probability of malignancy v 47% in sigmoid , 10% in rectum , and 0% in splenic flexure and descending colon ) ; and ( 3 ) symptomatic large bowel obstruction ( 100% probability of malignancy v only 14% in the absence of obstruction or constipation ) . |
| 11 | If for example someone has to choose between two £100 credit arrangements , both involving say about one year 's monthly instalments , then any difference in APR between the two competing alternatives is a convenient guide to comparative costs . |
| 12 | But like I say for seven years he just sat and did n't want to do nothing . |
| 13 | A CHICAGO police chief has admitted he is worried about potential violence in the city when European soccer hooligans descend for next year 's World Cup finals . |
| 14 | Guess what I want for next year ? |
| 15 | Should we dump everything down onto a long-term storage medium and select at the end of a longer period of time with the benefit of historical hindsight , say after 25 years ? |
| 16 | Once premiums cease after 10 years , you can then leave your fund to continue accumulating and you can cash it in , at anytime , prior to your 85th birthday . |
| 17 | another mistake in the film was to suggest that in a a short franchise , say of seven years they would need a great deal of working capital , but they wo n't need a great deal of working capital or or share capital , they will actually be running a business where they get subsidy , because if er they 're involving socially necessary lines , like commuter lines , or or rural lines , then we 've made it very clear er that the taxpayers subsidy will continue , because these are loss making businesses , they will be bid they will bid for subsidy , and they will continue to get that subsidy , so they will have the flow of whatever income they can increase , in the passenger franchise , plus the subsidy , plus , and this is a very important point in what we 're doing in the restructuring of British Rail , you see , nobody up till now has said that British Rail is perfect , everyone acknowledges that there are big improvements to be made , the way we 're structuring it will get those improvements because the smaller franchises , not the great big monolithic nationalized industry , the smaller units , ha will be able to identify much more clearly where they can make the savings and where they can increase the revenue . |
| 18 | In your nightmare , you feel that decisions about your life are made somewhere else by someone else — people who know little of you or your job , thus making it easier to decide that you no longer fit into this year 's marketing or accounting fashion |
| 19 | The GHS includes a core of questions which appear in each year 's survey . |
| 20 | Now you 're moving to Bilborough , you 're moving to Bilborough erm just say in five years time they got rid of the flats erm and they built houses on here on the site , would you move back ? |
| 21 | These bonds will be redeemed by the government at their face value at some specified date in the future , say in twenty years ' time . |
| 22 | Farmers say in previous years the public have n't always got a fair deal , as Simon Garrett reports |
| 23 | Heartwatch in third year of health education programme |
| 24 | Analysis What we want from this year 's budget 20 |
| 25 | Squash title stays put for another year |
| 26 | His wife worked on the railways during the war and had her own fruit and general goods shop for 14 years . |
| 27 | Bull will also be providing services support for 10 years . |
| 28 | This restoration has been an off-again-on-again project for several years but recently work has resumed on the Bearcat , which will be the only two seat example flying . |
| 29 | wait for New Year , when everyone 's finished partying . |
| 30 | In it he proposes the closure of at least one college at year that they reopen after three years and that they will not be allowed to employ anyone who 's previously taught at an Oxbridge university . |