Example sentences of "[art] number [prep] years [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This benefit allows you to deduct the years when you were required to give up work from the normal qualifying period for a basic pension and so , in effect , shorten the number of years when you would otherwise have been required to make contributions . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Einstein learnt the mathematical techniques he needed from his friend Marcel Grossman over a number of years when they both lived in Zurich and regarded the techniques primarily as useful tools . |
| 5 | Oh er of course they erm , they did n't believe in married women working and er they thought a married woman should be at home you see , well I had n't got any family then you see , until er after oh we 'd been married a number of years when we had , when I had my first baby and er and then I had the other one pretty quickly and er then I was glad to go out to work again when they were school age , they were n't left unattended at all er one , the elder one looked after the one , we did n't live , we lived in then but erm there was n't any pressure for me to stay at home , it was with my husband 's consent , because he knew it was helping out because rent man 's wages were n't very good then , and erm he er he finished , he finished at the pits you see and he got a job rent collecting , and he er he used to do miles he 'd cycle part of the way and then er he 'd perhaps leave his cycle somewhere and call back for it , but he used to do all the and all round there , there 's a place called and then er a lot of places er he used to do the old , is this , is this on , erm he used to do round , round the top there there were some slums there . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The Wesleyan Methodist chapel likewise closed a number of years ago , but serves the village well in its present capacity as the village hall . |
| 8 | I also had odd ends of three cones of that random yarn that was so popular a number of years ago . |
| 9 | One participant recollected attending an Inquiry into unemployment a number of years ago and asked the question : ‘ Has anything changed ? ’ |
| 10 | Erm a number of years ago we read in the paper that the Farnsfield borehole was being updated and |
| 11 | This game is based on the Simon game that was a hit with kids all over the U.K. a number of years ago . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ The operation was carried out in Britain a number of years ago but failed and doctors here are unwilling to try it again . ’ |
| 15 | A number of years ago she worked in the social services department of Cleveland county council . |
| 16 | A number of years ago , I would have bought two papers on a Sunday , the Observer and the Sunday Times . |
| 17 | He did n't use it this time , I remember a number of years ago here in |
| 18 | I have a child who , a number of years ago , we as parents got very worried about him |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | That was committee decision a number of years ago . |
| 21 | Consequently he placed advertisements in Russian newspapers , stating that he had been in charge of the production and clarification of Veuve Clicquot wines for a number of years where he succeeded in achieving perfect limpidity . |
| 22 | Once a water has attained this excellent balance of only relatively few big bream , it is surprising how long it can maintain the balance for a number of years afterwards . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | But that it took another oh quite a number of years really to get it started up . |
| 25 | Formal planning has been a feature of many schools and local authorities for a number of years now , and for those who have yet to embark , DES Circular 7/88 , The Education Act : Local Management of Schools has now made this a statutory requirement . |
| 26 | No , the fact remains that malaria is on the increase and has been for a number of years now . |
| 27 | That has now changed Eastern arts no longer support the gallery now one obvious reason for that is the gallery started so well because of the enthusiasm from a number of professional people who came along and gave their advice and much of their time and such a body of people has not been called upon for a number of years now and once again a request to discuss this with Mr was refused . |
| 28 | For a number of years now Berman has been almost as elusive as before his ‘ breakthrough ’ in the mid-1970s , and it is good to hear such a distinctive pianist now resuming activity . |
| 29 | A : Oh no they lived in Canada eh he was married to my mother 's sister + + well she 's been dead for a number of years now + |
| 30 | The Yorkshire region has , for a number of years now , combined the Health and Safety Officer 's job with that of the regional education officer the two have always married together very well in the principal thrust of workplace activity it involved the training of safety representatives enabling them to carry out their role effectively . |