Example sentences of "[num] years and [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | See well over 50,000 exhibits collected by Jan and Graham Upton during the past 30 years and now shown on three floors of authentic Victorian style Shops . |
| 2 | The growing tendency for women in many developed countries to postpone legal marriage until between ages 25 and 30 years and then to begin having children also implies health risks . |
| 3 | Peter has with CCG for the past 2 years and also has 20 years experience in servicing ‘ blue chip ’ clients and business development . |
| 4 | No British government in the past forty years and more has been elected with even a bare majority of the votes cast . |
| 5 | ‘ I have been a member of the Leander club for the past 12 years and still train with them , ’ he explained . |
| 6 | Hugh and Joyce Gardiner have been with Timex for a total of 44 years and never believed that their fight could have reached such a pitch . |
| 7 | He said that he wo n't return home for another six years and still has 65 countries to visit . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Lucky devil , I 've been trying for eight years and still have n't cracked it yet . ’ |
| 9 | The absolute number of adults classed as disabled increases continuously with age up to 79 years and then decreases slightly . |
| 10 | ‘ It took a lot of thinking about — living in your own home and happy there for fifty years and suddenly to give it away . |
| 11 | Mr Patten , speaking at a fringe meeting at the tory conference made the remarks about Professor Tim Brighouse who ran schools in Oxfordshire for eleven years and now heads Birmingham 's education department . |
| 12 | I 've been farming for the last 70 years and never seen anything like it . ’ |
| 13 | The estimated reservation wages increase with age up to about 35 years and then decrease with the men aged over 55 , with estimated reservation wages for both periods which are lower than for teenage men . |
| 14 | Last week he walked upstairs for the first time in three years and just burst into tears . |
| 15 | Those objections have been overridden , not least because USAir has lost $1 billion in the past three years and urgently needs BA 's cash , although the US transportation secretary , Federico Pena , laid down a warning marker on the type of negotiations to come when asked about British resistance to allowing US airlines to land at Heathrow Airport . |
| 16 | But those objections have been overridden , not least because USAir has lost $1 billion in the past three years and urgently needs BA 's cash , although the US Transportation Secretary , Federico Pena , also laid down a warning marker on the type of negotiations to come when asked about British resistance to allowing US airlines to land at Heathrow Airport . |
| 17 | I believe the Norwegian explorer Amundsen was the first successful explorer to transit the North West Passage with a 50 tonne fishing boat , taking three years and finally reaching the Pacific in 1906 . |
| 18 | He stuck this out for three years and finally qualified as an electrician in his own right . |
| 19 | Er where I did about three years and then moved to Southwell . |
| 20 | To disappear without so much as a phone call or a postcard for three years and then breeze back down the path from the town and across the bridge-rubber handlebars just clearing the sides and no more — carrying somebody else 's baby or babies and expecting to be housed , fed , nursed and delivered by my father was a little presumptuous . |
| 21 | Dexter believed Jane Pargeter was more interested in David Parkin 's affair than she pretended : you ca n't be someone 's lover for three years and then cast them off with the same indifference as an old pair of socks . |
| 22 | He had been fully retired for three years and happily occupied with reading and local committee work before Pat retired as home help supervisor for a London borough . |
| 23 | I 'd worked at for 18 years and often came to the Terminal to check the weigh-bridge . |
| 24 | Megan 's been married for 18 years and still loves her husband , but resents his meanness . |
| 25 | Come , I 'll spell it out for you — one thing only you were born for , and that 's to live fourteen years and then bring Undry here and hang it from these chains . |
| 26 | Jamie Ray , another American , was jailed for 4 years and also ordered to be deported . |
| 27 | Fabric designs produced at Bourton on the Water in Gloucestershire have won a Queens Award for Warwick Fabrics , a company which started just 4 years and now sells 70% of output overseas . |
| 28 | Rather we are looking at those beliefs , supported by significant power bases within each bloc , which have won out in the political process in the past seventy years and still appear to be doing so , in some cases with much decreased vitality . |
| 29 | In Java , homegardens have increased in extent in the last 50 years and now account for c. 18.5 per cent of agricultural land . |
| 30 | She had been a widow for 25 years and now lived in one room , earning a living as a charwoman . |