Example sentences of "of [num] year [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The data will also permit dynamic analysis since within the short period of 70 years covered by these records , villagers lived first under three resident minor gentlemen , then under a powerful and well connected one ( Nathaniel Bacon ) and , finally , under an absentee one ( Sir Roger Townshend ) . |
| 2 | There was more than just a matter of fifty years separating her life from that of Johnny Latimer . |
| 3 | I am a male of 49 years living on my own in rented accommodation , I spent a year on E.T . |
| 4 | Rita Claydon , a 49-old grandmother , ditched her husband of 30 years to marry 18-year-old window cleaner Roy Dubbs . |
| 5 | In addition , over 60% of the adult residents over the age of 12 years have some formal training in cardiopulmonary resuscitation ( CPR ) . |
| 6 | Those adopted before the age of 2 years had an average IQ as high as 96 , while those adopted later scored around 80 . |
| 7 | Thus to honour the first of the Roman emperors an orderly arrangement was reduced to an illogical jumble that many people find difficult to remember but which in the course of 2,000 years has been successfully imposed on most of the world . |
| 8 | The result of the provisions relating to duration is that the owner of the right can only have a maximum of 10 years to exploit the design commercially . |
| 9 | The original Thai timetable of 10 years had been extended to 15 in response to the cautious reaction of Indonesia and the Philippines . |
| 10 | Two councillors who have served Hartlepool for a total of 26 years have been nominated Mayor and Deputy Mayor for the municipal year beginning on May 19 . |
| 11 | I rise to break my Trappist vow of six years to say how honoured and privileged I have been to attend and take part in this debate . |
| 12 | In other proceedings , however , the limitation period of six years gives , or should give , the local authority ample time to sue even after an appeal against their demand . |
| 13 | The Organisation of European Co-operation ( O.E.E.C. ) , which had been established to agree the division of the Marshall Aid among the member states , also liberated trading generally , and in a space of six years trading within the European states had doubled . |
| 14 | The mention of six years suggested to me that Alec might be a doctor but I was wrong . |
| 15 | Paddy Cosgrove , his likely replacement , is a council hack of 21 years standing and ideal backbench fodder , though it is hard to imagine him leading a crusade for Meadowell . |
| 16 | You will note that my Local Search reveals a repair grant of £704.48 registered on 3rd January 1984 but the period of three years requiring payment have now lapsed . |
| 17 | Eorpwald , king of the eastern Angles , was slain by a pagan , Ricberht , soon after his conversion and a period of three years elapsed before Eorpwald 's half-brother , Sigeberht , who had been baptized during his exile in Gaul , became king and Felix , a Burgundian , was appointed bishop of the eastern Angles by Honorius , archbishop of Canterbury . |
| 18 | On the hearing of the petition he decided that the debtor had ‘ carried on business in England and Wales ’ within a period of three years ending with the presentation of the petition for the purposes of section 265(1) ( c ) ( ii ) of the Insolvency Act 1986and made the order sought . |
| 19 | That section sets out various grounds for jurisdiction , including the domicile , residence and physical presence of the debtor in England , but the sole ground relied on in this case is section 265(1) ( c ) ( ii ) , namely , that the debtor within a period of three years ending on the date of presentation , had ‘ carried on business in England and Wales . ’ |
| 20 | It takes a minimum of three years to qualify for a BA , but many undergraduates choose to spread their studies over four , five or six years . |
| 21 | To quote one Brazilian professor , ‘ Everyone over the age of three years has got scabies ’ . |
| 22 | This new venture aims over a period of three years to train up to ninety students not only as teachers of BSL but as BSL English interpreters . |
| 23 | An assembly of around 400 artefacts from the Chavin , Nazca , Moche , Huari and Chimó cultures covering a period of 3,000 years aims to demonstrate the variety and richness of Pre-Columbian art . |
| 24 | This former schoolmaster and magistrate of 18 years has sat with 50 mediums 130 times to further his quest for knowledge about what we might call ‘ the other side ’ . |
| 25 | The Rentcharges Act 1977 prohibited the creation of further rent-charges , and provided also for the extinguishment of all existing rentcharges at the end of sixty years starting on 22 July 1977 , or on the date the rentcharge first became payable , whichever is later . |
| 26 | Right through from the seventeenth until the early twentieth century those who reached the age of sixty years remained a small but quite steady 5–7 per cent of the English population . |
| 27 | A last-minute plea to the Scottish Office by the North Tayside MP , Bill Walker , for a few more days ' grace to allow the Diplexcito family to ‘ depart with dignity ’ from their home of 17 years fell on deaf ears . |
| 28 | In a statement read to the inquest , she told how her husband of 11 years had been having difficulty sleeping , but had never talked of suicide . |
| 29 | In only 5 of 11 years has P. albimonus been the commonest species , four others having occupied that position ; in 1977 Episyrphus balteatus formed nearly half the total catch ; in 1976 , a third of the species caught were represented by one individual ; and the number of individuals per species has varied from 20 in 1981 to over 120 in 1978 . |
| 30 | If we compare the copy of the Pinturicchio — excellent though it may be — with the paintings owned by American collector Philip Lehman , we have to admit that Joni 's abilities , over a period of ten years developed to a remarkable extent . |