Example sentences of "an [noun] [num] years [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unions claimed that over 90,000 registered disabled people would be affected by the plan to limit disability benefit , after an initial six years on a salary-related scale , to 70 per cent of the national minimum wage . |
| 2 | Life expectancy at birth is now an average 72 years for males and 78 years for females , but many people live much longer . |
| 3 | The £2 million former West Ham man has endured an up-and-down four years on Merseyside . |
| 4 | The agreement , which was announced by the Department of Health , brings to an end six years of controversy over the future of the Adelaide . |
| 5 | The closure brings to an end 67 years of rayon activity at Cornwall , making it by far the Group 's longest surviving manufacturing unit . |