Example sentences of "and the [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was three centuries and the Hundred Years War indeed before the English lost it , in which time Bayonne did well , not least as a centre of the wine trade with England equal in prosperity to Bordeaux . |
| 2 | To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many days were lost in strikes in the 10 years prior to 1979 and the 10 years since . |
| 3 | Later , I too escaped from school into the army , and the four years of war service seemed at the time , perfectly natural . |
| 4 | Bowlby 's report was abridged and published as a paperback ( 1953 ) , thus becoming widely available to the lay public ; in the year of publication and the five years following , more than seventy-five thousand copies were sold , and nearly as many in the next five years : an exceptional sale in Britain for a book not intended as a baby book for parents . |
| 5 | Particularly dramatic was the reduction in growth rate which took place between the mid 1960s , when the annual increase reached almost 400,000 , and the five years Figure 4.1 Population change and its components , UK , 1960–87 . |
| 6 | sorry can , can we get to the question again , want to see if I 've got it right , correct me if I 'm wrong , over the eighty schemes and the five years that you had put forward budgets for all , you had n't included a contingency fund element ? |
| 7 | The 26 miles being the distance from the east terrace of Windsor Castle where the race began , to the stadium at White City , and the 385 years , the distance from the entrance to the Royal Box , where it finished . |
| 8 | Now , as a consequence of my eight marginal years on a drug squad , visits to the United Nations , and the three years at university reading a subject which few knew anything about , but would be willing to dismiss along with all of the social sciences , I was in danger of being irrevocably cast into the mould of being a ‘ college man ’ or academic . |
| 9 | It was far from easy to predict that the seamen would repeat the role which they had assumed in I887 as the prime movers in a wave of industrial unrest almost as notable in labour history as the period encompassing the Great London Dock Strike and the three years that followed . |
| 10 | The present ESRC-funded project will enable full coverage of the period 1940-86 to be undertaken , embracing the last quarter-century of the LCC and the 21 years of the greater London Council . |
| 11 | It led to no permanent transfers of territory , though some islands were made neutral at the end of the war , and the half-dozen years after the war ended in 1749 were one of the peaks of eighteenth-century prosperity in the sugar trades . |
| 12 | Later , in the eighteenth century , it also kept aloof from the War of the Austrian Succession ( 1741–48 ) and the Seven Years ' War ( 1756–63 ) . |