Example sentences of "[adv] a [adj] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | The local authority that owned the premises was ‘ privatizing ’ it , i.e. making a quick profit while there were still a fair few years on the lease . |
| 2 | There is also a free three year Maintenance Plan , where you are given next day on-site support with the option of claiming £50.00 compensation per day should Ti'Ko fail to meet this obligation . |
| 3 | This is Lockheed L.1049G-82-81 Super Constellation serial 4618 , now a dainty 36 years old , but looking more than a little worse for wear . |
| 4 | Tuberculosis as a child had kept Billy out of the war , but he was now a fit twenty-six year old , as tall as Yanto , but as thin as a rake . |
| 5 | Her son Richard , whom she had named after her own father , was now a sturdy three year old , with a serious nature for one so young , although he had a mischievous and exasperating streak . |
| 6 | I went over there and I stepped into this guy 's shoes who had really a difficult fourth year class . |
| 7 | For looking ahead even a mere 10 years or so , it is possible and even probable , that a much smaller proportion of people 's lives will be spent in paid employment ( Gilg , 1983c ) , and that people will retire earlier , work far fewer hours and days per week , and will have very long holidays , so that work can be shared around . |
| 8 | Once again a new academic year approaches , and in order to help you expand your skills , and develop your ideas for future lessons , our In-Service Training days will recommence on Saturday 22nd . |
| 9 | His translation was first published in 1897 , in a journal called The Quarto ; this was one year after the publication of his A Shropshire Lad , and incidentally a brief three years after the appearance of Gladstone 's translation of Horace . |