Example sentences of "[num] year give " in BNC.
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| 1 | That we women feel that the fact that women have been employed in Edinburgh as compositors for nearly forty years gives women a claim on the business . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The same question I asked at city hall , it 's slightly different in that now the council has left two and a half available over the next erm three years given that it is not already taken . |
| 4 | Over 200 works were shown , and the fact that all the artists showed painting representative of their development during the previous three years gave the exhibition an added air of being a Cubist demonstration . |
| 5 | Absolute attention to fine design , quality of build , detailing and craftsmanship , plus a total commitment to our clients requirements , have , over 18 years given Alan Morgan Yachting a well earned and worthy pedigree . |
| 6 | The week-long camps are sponsored by Digital Equipment Company , and are open to students aged from 14 to 17 years to give them practical experience of the computer applications they will come across when they take up their careers . |
| 7 | Nine jobs in sixteen years gave me an average of almost two years in each job . |
| 8 | The iron hand of the Conservative administration 's first 5 years gave way to sermons on personal responsibility . |
| 9 | Points out that even though no more than week long , seemed to last approx. 2000 years given their children with talent for running away from home/eating razor blades/climbing into boot of car to die/vomiting continuously/fighting with our children in between asthma bouts . |
| 10 | Aside from Boyce and Lee , these include Edward Howard , a CIA employee who finally defected to Moscow taking with him a hoard of secret information about his work ; the Walker trio who for 17 years handed over details of US Navy cryptograhic equipment to the Russians in exchange for $750,000 ; Bruce Ott , a USAF airman who tried to sell the Russians a copy of the SR-71 spy plane operating manual ; Robert Miller , an FBI agent who passed on secret documents to the Russians ; Ronald Pelton , a communications expert with the NSA who for five years gave the Russians details of his work ; Clyde Conrad , a retired US Army sergeant who for five years is alleged to have handed over top army contingency plans to the East ; and Jonathan Pollard , a US Navy counter-intelligence analyst who was paid $50,000 by Israeli intelligence for top naval information , a particularly embarrassing incident . |
| 11 | The dog had been named Nosey on the grounds that the Duke of Wellington , ‘ Nosey ’ to his men , had spent twenty years giving |
| 12 | Means ( 1988 ) argues that some authors treat the total group of " pensioners " ( a group which may cover 40 years given the trend to early retirement ) as a " special needs " category . |
| 13 | There appears to be no significant risk to women who take it for less than five years but the risk does increase slightly between five and ten years , and taking it for more than 15 years gives a higher risk still . |
| 14 | In fact , there has been talk of it taking up to four years to give effect to this , during which time who knows how many young people will die , while the Home Office and the Home Secretary drag their feet ? |
| 15 | We 're turning the clock back nearly four years to give Town a boost for this one . |
| 16 | Once I had learnt to ride , the trick of balancing took me quite a while , that bike , over the next four years gave me enormous pleasure . |
| 17 | As a result judges award far too many soft sentences — the seven years given to Dr Tom Courtney for two rapes and two indecent assaults is by no means the only example . |