Example sentences of "be [prep] [adj] years [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The United Kingdom has been through 13 years in which unemployment has more than doubled , irreplaceable assets have been wasted , markets at home and abroad have been lost , manufacturing investment has fallen , poverty has increased , the crime rate has rocketed , and talents have been neglected . |
| 2 | It has to be said that there has been for some years within the Labour Party something of a class divide — a working-class element resentful of a middle-class takeover by lawyers and the like . |
| 3 | IBM will keep its retirement bridge , which allows employees that are within five years of retirement to take unpaid leave until they 're eligible to retire with full benefits , but it will no longer provide benefits during the leave , or include employees ' unpaid time in any of its length of service benefits . |
| 4 | This type of mortgage is only available to those in non-pensionable employment , since , in order to secure the tax-free cash sum , contributions must be made to a personal pension plan , and is really only suitable for borrowers who are within 25 years of their preferred retirement date . |
| 5 | One of the dangers of the current climate for admission , which makes it more difficult than it has been in recent years for students to get into universities , is that the concentration is on the techniques of application , rather than on what lies behind the mechanical process . |
| 6 | That came as no surprise to us , as we know how good the business climate in this country has been in recent years with the success of deregulation and low taxation and the attractiveness of Britain as a home of inward investment . |
| 7 | Duration : SHALL BE FOR TWO YEARS FROM THE SIGNING OF THIS AGREEMENT . |
| 8 | The appointment , which will be for two years in the first instance , has been made possible by the University of London 's Academic Initiative Scheme . |
| 9 | The post , which is at research officer level , will be for two years in the first instance , with the possibility of extension , and the salary will be at the appropriate point on the 1A scale ( £ –£18 165 per annum ) with USS . |
| 10 | The appointment will be for two years in the first instance . |
| 11 | The Fellowship will be for three years in the first instance . |
| 12 | This , one felt , was what elections would be like 100 years from now . |
| 13 | It also suggested that the age range should be from 8 years to 16 ( instead of 6 to 14 ) , and in 1848 the lower age was in fact raised to 7 . |
| 14 | Indeed , as mentioned above , the railways were for some years under the direct control of the sponsor ministry ( at that time the ministry of public works ) . |
| 15 | Unfortunately , left to themselves , many of the farmers who were between 45–64 years of age and had little formal training , saw little benefit to themselves from attendance at training courses . |
| 16 | They included the immediate retirement of all civil servants at or above retirement age , the suspension of civil servants who were within two years of retirement , a freeze on promotions , overtime and new recruitment , the closure of dozens of government departments and the state Banco Hipotecario Nacional , the imposition of strict controls on the Banco Central to restrict the growth of the money supply , the suspension of export loans and subsidies to industry , the raising of capital taxes and export duties , and the suspension of collective bargaining in the public sector . |
| 17 | This shows changes in the length of the family cycle and is based on the assumption that all the brides involved ( in all of the periods ) were aged 22.5 years at marriage . |
| 18 | The limitation period is for six years from the date on which the dwelling was completed . |
| 19 | Salary will be on the RA1B scale ( £ –£ per annum ) with USS and the position is for two years in the first instance . |
| 20 | The lease negotiated was for twenty years at a rental of £20,000 subject to possible increases up to a maximum of £22,000 . |
| 21 | Where Richard was during these years of military and diplomatic manoeuvring we do not know , but it is a reasonable guess that he was with his mother , since Aquitaine was her duchy and it was by her wish that it was to be made over to him . |
| 22 | It was during these years in Kidderminster that amongst all his other labours , Richard Baxter found time to write some sixty books . |
| 23 | Erm I went into residential social work first , erm but that was after twenty years of teaching erm in various parts of the country , I was in , Bradford , and then I spent seven years in Africa , where I also erm was a teacher , and when I came back from Africa , I was asked if I would just replace someone that was going on a course , in a residential er the mother and baby home it was actually . |
| 24 | ‘ But the child you abducted was of six years of age and although the period of abduction was short and the child came to no harm , this was a crime , particularly now , of the most serious kind . ’ |
| 25 | However , although only one in twenty of those over the age of 55 reported that they were pleased about the plant closure , those who did so were concentrated almost entirely in the group that was within three years of pension age when the redundancies took place . |