Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | I seem to remember seeing that years ago . |
| 2 | Even though he has pushed through legislation to outlaw the ‘ sow pen ’ the government is allowing eight years for it to be passed out . |
| 3 | Dorothy Tyson has been made churchwarden emeritus of St Nicholas 's Church , North Grimston near Malton , after completing 30 years as warden . |
| 4 | The well-dressing was started in Dore in 1959 as an added attraction for the scout gala , which takes place on the second Saturday in July , so an obvious choice for the design was ‘ A Boy Scout ’ , representing fifty years of scouting in the district . |
| 5 | 368 reaffirming 500 years of judicial acceptance of the requirement that a term must be certain applies to all leases and tenancy agreements . |
| 6 | In the general election of December 1986 the NAR won 33 of the 36 seats in the lower house and ousted the incumbent PNM ( which won the remaining three seats ) , ending 30 years of continuous PNM government [ see pp. 35194-95 ] . |
| 7 | in throat and belly , unscrewing forty years |
| 8 | Its opening is the key which must unlock the door to rapid decisions on ending 45 years of East-West confrontation , formally as well as in fact . |
| 9 | But I have more chance of improving that than knocking 10 years off Gregory or adding speed to Fox . |
| 10 | At least 10 parties had been formed following publication of the National Constitution Review Commission 's ( NCRC 's ) recommendation in March that multiparty politics should be legalised , ending 21 years of one-party rule by the All People 's Congress ( APC ) . |
| 11 | The consequence was that , deducting three years from eight , the proper sentence would have been five years : that sentence would be imposed . |
| 12 | Namibia , the last remaining colony in Africa , achieved independence on March 21 , 1990 , ending 106 years of colonization , under German rule from 1884 to 1915 and then under South African administration . |
| 13 | He left Guinness in 1988 to become finance director of Cope Allman , returning three years later . |
| 14 | THE opposition leader , Albert Zafy , took an unbeatable lead yesterday in Madagascar 's presidential election , ending 17 years of virtual dictatorship by Didier Ratsiraka . |
| 15 | Clarke was convicted of drink driving ten years ago and banned for 18 months . |
| 16 | Flora had never forgiven her husband for dying ten years before , leaving her badly off . |
| 17 | And since Felicity — that 's my wife — ca n't now experience what 's happening five years ago — because it 's receding faster than the speed of light , and the speed of light is a constant which , as we know from Einsteinian physics , can not be exceeded … |
| 18 | In 1922 Mr Charles Hinks became articled to Mr Latimer and was given a partnership on qualifying five years later at the age of 21 quite a distinction as the custom was to buy a share in a practice . |
| 19 | A national referendum on June 2 was reported to have resulted in a 93 per cent vote in favour of a new Constitution providing for a multiparty system , ending 13 years of military rule . |
| 20 | began power kiting several years ago after seeing BBC TV 's Tomorrow 's World programme . |
| 21 | The postcard has improved in quality as printing processes have developed , and the number of companies producing and distributing them seems to have multiplied by the hundred since I started in bookselling 15 years ago . |
| 22 | Elections to the Knesset ( parliament ) on June 23 resulted in victory for the Labour Party , ending 15 years of Likud domination of Israeli politics . |
| 23 | ‘ People who drink heavily are probably knocking twenty years off their lives . ’ |
| 24 | And it 's my contention , it 's my contention that them people that were er strafing and bombing me , er outside , er in republican Spain , was the same was the same crowd was the same crowd that were bombing and strafing several years later , in the in in the second world war , in in in France er and Holland . |
| 25 | Saddam Hussein on Sept. 3 formally approved a law legalizing opposition parties and ostensibly ending 23 years of one-party rule ( since the 1968 coup ) . |
| 26 | Couplet comprising clay/calcite/silt laminae and representing 6,000 years of deposition occur in an equivalent sequence from northeast Angola . |
| 27 | The Organistion for Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris predicted a 1.3 per cent growth , ending two years of decline . |
| 28 | The report cited numerous examples of arbitrary arrest , torture and extra-judicial killing and called on Indian politicians to use the general election of May and June to commit themselves to ending seven years of " rampant human rights abuses " in the state . |
| 29 | The pattern seen among women suggests the possibility of such an effect , but the low number of cases occurring seven years after start of cimetidine use or longer ( only six ) and the absence of any effect in men speak against the interpretation of the association as being casual . |
| 30 | Mr Young started knitting 10 years ago . |