Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] a [num] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | A DREAM of one day playing for Middlesbrough Football Club helped one of the team 's biggest fans through a four year prison ordeal . |
| 2 | A section of the Education Bill prevents school library services from offering their facilities to grant maintained schools after a two year period . |
| 3 | Six months after a seventy year old man was found beaten to death in his home , police say they 've made an important breakthrough . |
| 4 | Within the last fortnight , we have seen the release on parole of one offender after serving just 22 months of a five year sentence for sexual offences against at least a dozen young boys , and the sentencing of another man to life imprisonment after a sexual orgy resulting in the death of a nine year old . |
| 5 | He 'd spent 18 months in prison awaiting trial and served 6 months of a 10 year sentence . |
| 6 | A conman has stolen antique rings and savings from a ninety year old woman just an hour after she was discharged from hospital . |
| 7 | Third , as we monitored our representative sample of schools over a three year period , we could perceive some of them undergoing a process of structural transition , shifting away from the simple two-tier model towards departmentalism and/or a matrix structure . |
| 8 | This was how a Florida man described the graffiti with which he defaced a couple of hundred public library books over a three year period between 1977 and 1980 . |
| 9 | In 1985 , the Industry and Employment Committee committed funds over a three year period for an initiative in New Technology . |
| 10 | von Scheidt et al assessed haemodynamic variables over a 5 year period ( mean 26 months ) in patients after heart transplantation and confirmed preserved and normal left ventricular contractility in most cases . |
| 11 | Outside the bathroom door the long dead news Is served again in dozens of reviews ; The colour sups dementedly parade Pictorial pickings from the past decade : A cast of horribly familiar faces , The winners of a hundred one-horse races , The media icons of a 10 year binge When loads of money was society 's hinge — Money for an image or a slogan ; Money — lots and lots — for Terry Wogan , And other stars who live the live of Riley : Madonna , Joan ( and Jackie ) Collins , Kylie … |
| 12 | I mean maybe you 're thinking of the sort of publicized cases of a nine year old , I believe it was , who 's got A levels in mathematics . |
| 13 | I mean maybe you 're thinking of the sort of publicized cases of a nine year old , I believe it was , who 's got A levels in mathematics . |
| 14 | The parents of a nine year old girl who died while being treated at hospital say an internal inquiry was just a white wash . |
| 15 | The study found twenty-one students had taken their own lives over a fourteen year period , and more than two hundred and fifty others attempted suicide.Simon Garrett reports . |
| 16 | The study will combine DTI Company Statistics with London Business School 's London Share Price Data Base to provide details on the top executive pay , company characteristics and share price performance for a sample of large companies over a twenty year period . |
| 17 | The scheme was administered by the Brewers ' Society and involved the exchange of some 1,000 pubs over a five year period ( source : British Drink Profile , Halliday Associates , 1979 ) . |
| 18 | The specified period of 80 years is the period referred to in the Perpetuities and Accumulations Act 1964 , but there is no reason why the period can not be less , eg 30 years for a 25 year term . |
| 19 | It happened less than two days after a fourteen year old girl from Birmingham was killed in a joyriding incident . |
| 20 | In October 1966 George Blake escaped from Wormwood Scrubs prison after serving nearly five years of a 42 year sentence of imprisonment for spying for the Soviet Union . |
| 21 | Eddie Szuluk has just served 6 years of a 10 year sentence for drug offences . |
| 22 | He 's served 6 years of a 10 year stretch for armed robbery . |
| 23 | The total aid granted for investment ( except some property improvements and land improvements ) must not exceed the aid resulting from financing the investments with a 15 year loan at a 7% interest rate subsidy . |
| 24 | In a move that runs counter its commitment to clean up the environment in former East Germany , the German government has agreed to exempt a huge rubbish tip near Schonberg near the Baltic coast from its regulations for a five year period . |
| 25 | Bartley , 23 , of Bell Walk , Newton Aycliffe , was also charged with having the two guns after a 12 year prison sentence which barred him from owning firearms . |
| 26 | Jackdaws are supposed to be great collectors , but even a jackdaw could not fly off with the hands , feet and eyeballs of a four year old crammed into its beak all at once . |
| 27 | Relatives of a ninety-one year old widow left battered in her own home are pleading for the public to help catch her attacker . |
| 28 | His financial controller Roger Richardson came up with a system of false accounting , which enabled them to borrow millions of pounds over a three year period and keep the company going . |
| 29 | Behavioural item check lists were completed by the mothers and teachers which provided assessments of several different behavioural dimensions and behavioural changes over a 5 year period will be analysed with respect to specific life events , life circumstances and primary school experience . |
| 30 | Simulation tends to be used in problems where mathematical solutions are not possible , or where long time scales are involved ( eg predicting — population changes over a 30 year period ) , or where there is no other way of tackling the problem ( eg charting space-satellite trajectories ) . |