Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [prep] [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two forms of design right are proposed , one subject to registration , the other right being unregistered but only lasting for three years . |
| 2 | Nature , produced by Robin Hellier , has a lot of pace as did Horizon 's The Geneva event ( BBC2 , 24 January ) What the latter did not have was much patience with the aspirant but relatively unlearned student of what is going on in the world of high energy physics The main Geneva event — the identification of the W subatomic particle which , with the Z , will enable the theory that the four fundamental forces of nature can be unified within a single framework to be sustained — has yet to be announced , though it is believed imminent Horizon had been patiently filming for four years . |
| 3 | So , with a quick flush of guilt for not going in 5 years , I trundled off to downtown Canterbury — quite a way downtown it was too , past Mr Careys bungalow and all the tacky tourist shops . |
| 4 | At that time just getting on two years . |
| 5 | The sixth-form course in the City Technology Colleges is envisaged as generally lasting for two years . |
| 6 | A sign at our local church is in oak , with gold lettering , but the latter is already fading after three years . |
| 7 | The My Lai episode should , therefore , be a model to such peoples as the East Germans and the Romanians , who are just emerging from 50 years of living under the secret police . |
| 8 | The Act therefore laid down a " statement of particulars " to be included in any contract — the nature and length of the voyage , the time to be on board , the capacity in which the seaman was to serve , the amount of wages and scale of provisions to be provided and any disciplinary rules or penalties to be applied while on board — thus anticipating by 122 years the detailing of terms universally required by the Contracts of Employment Act 1972 . |
| 9 | Charlie Francis is guilty of a sporting crime — of that I am sure — but what about the guilt of those in high officialdom who have allowed the situation to go on growing for 20 years without trying to stop it ? |
| 10 | At the time , the year of expiry would hardly have seemed significant , but when it arrived , Champagne was still recovering from four years of German occupation . |
| 11 | But many were still standing after five years of air attack , and although German civilian morale was largely unbroken , it was the psychology behind the attacks which yielded valuable dividends . |
| 12 | Complete remission was obtained in six patients including four treated with cyclophosphamide , with a follow up ranging from 1.5–7 years . |
| 13 | During 1785 he made six more balloon flights , notably taking William Windham , MP [ q.v. ] , as a passenger on 5 May , but then gave up ballooning for twenty-five years . |
| 14 | In 1878 she gave up teaching for two years , following a breakdown in health . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'll never let you in , not if you go on crying for twenty years ! ’ |
| 16 | It is a most precocious breed , commonly calving at two years old or earlier , and many individuals seem to be predisposed to fostering alien calves so that they are good multiple sucklers if the milk is not too rich . |