Example sentences of "[verb] [num] year [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if a woman ( or man for that matter ) devotes , say eight years to the care of two children , there remain at least thirty more years of outside earning capacity . |
| 2 | A bankrupt is automatically discharged three years from the commencement of the bankruptcy unless a certificate for summary administration has been issued and not revoked , in which case the period is two years ( s 279(2) ) . |
| 3 | St. John 's was in fact rebuilt ten years before the sack , but it survived remarkably well , and its stained glass existed up until the eighteenth century when Stukeley records its removal . |
| 4 | We had expected 25 years at the most . |
| 5 | Numbers covers 38 years in the history of Israel : the period of desert wandering the Sinai peninsula . |
| 6 | In Belfast tonight two dozen young people will march through the city centre , each holding a candle representing one year of the ‘ Troubles ’ . |
| 7 | What would he himself say two years after the wedding ? |
| 8 | A precise chronology is impossible , but Bede says it was in 653 — by which 654 may need to be understood , for Bede also says it occurred two years before the death of Penda ( in 655 or 656 ) — that Peada was converted ( HE V , 24 ) . |
| 9 | Its presence in everyday life became so large and so intense , and in such a short space of time — say 20 years from the Coronation in 1953 , acknowledged as the ‘ take-off date — that its influence is strictly incalculable , over other media and over most facets of life . |
| 10 | Congratulations to ( tea was her treat ) on completing 10 years as the Society 's Secretary . |
| 11 | Their call came fifty years to the day after an Oxford academic produced a report that became the corner-stone of the welfare state . |
| 12 | Whilst I have said 2 years as the expected time to be collecting Community Charge I think this should be qualified with 2 years plus , with income being received for some considerable time thereafter especially through Sheriff Officers . |
| 13 | The divorced man was arrested yesterday as he left Armley jail , near Leeds , after serving six years over the kidnapping of a young Midlands girl . |
| 14 | Without research and development properly funded these companies will have no products to sell 10 years down the line . |
| 15 | Bembenek was released from jail on December 9 after serving 10 years for the murder of Christine Schultz . |
| 16 | * Just to show the brewers how it should be done , CAMRA is producing a bottle-conditioned beer to celebrate 21 years of the Campaign . |
| 17 | before I was a gard er was a mo a gardener , and after I 'd three years to the extent I ca n't . |
| 18 | Power and John Walker — were released last year after serving 17 years for the IRA massacre . |
| 19 | He later admitted he had provided an affidavit for Clarke , who escaped from the Maze prison where he was serving 18 years for the attempted murder of a member of the Ulster Defence Regiment . |
| 20 | Over 170 cyclists gathered in the grounds of Drumlanrig Castle , near Thornhill in Dumfriesshire , over the long weekend of May ‘ -25 to celebrate 152 years of the invention , by Kirkpatrick Macmillan , of our favourite form of transport and recreation . |
| 21 | INCREDIBLY , Billy Connolly , friend of Fergie and occasional comic , is about to celebrate 25 years in the business . |
| 22 | er my Lord simply directives under one art article one , eight , nine , erm I can , very simply say in relation to the Lloyds Act and to the bye laws they were adopted ten years after the directive , there ca n't therefore be an implementation , they , they , the the implementation is fully set out in the Insurance Companies Act nineteen eighty two and it quite clear now because the Secretary of S |
| 23 | The Marshal , whose thoughts were still with the prisoner on his way back to serve fifteen years in the Murate , and who was further distracted by half the talk being in English , was hardly able to follow a word of this interrogation . |
| 24 | Their other son , Peter , who has done 13 years in the RAF , served in the Gulf War and , says his proud father , was mentioned in despatches . |
| 25 | I 'd done twenty years in the family planning and I 'd done twelve years on the council and I 'd done thirty years as school governor . |
| 26 | The vote came five years after the synod called for draft legislation to introduce women priests . |
| 27 | To celebrate twenty years of the RIBA Heinz Gallery , an exhibition ( the 94th ) was held in May of a selection of recent acquisitions . |
| 28 | I 'd done twenty years in the family planning and I 'd done twelve years on the council and I 'd done thirty years as school governor . |
| 29 | Reaching back even farther is Ruby Trax which covers 40 years of music in 40 cover versions — to celebrate 40 years of the New Musical Express , with all profits going to the 40-year-old Spastics Society . |
| 30 | It was the official state holiday to celebrate 40 years of the German Democratic Republic . |