Example sentences of "a [num] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went through his medical test in the morning , signed a three-and-a-half year contract , then announced : ‘ First I have to win my place . |
| 2 | Twenty-five years ago , that team of scientists and electronics engineers charged with the awesome task of producing such a piece of equipment , included a thirty-seven year old Texan electronics engineer , whose star was rapidly rising in another quarter . |
| 3 | Steers ( 1953 ) has quoted examples from the east coast : in Holderness in a thirty-seven year period towards the end of the last century the average loss from the coast was a strip 65 m ( 215 ft ) wide , or an average annual loss of about 1.75 m ( 6 ft ) , while the district suffering the most severe erosion lost 82 m ( 273 ft ) in the same period . |
| 4 | The third party claims have lessened with the retreat from the Convention for the Regulation of the Antarctic Mineral Resource Activities , and the acceptance by the parties at Madrid in 1991 of a fifty year ban on activities relating to mineral resources other than scientific research . |
| 5 | This will be particularly important in our efforts to explore the ways in which the private traumas of married couples have found their way on to the public agendas of churchmen , politicians , policy makers and others over a fifty year period . |
| 6 | The US is in agreement with a fifty year ban , but at the second round of talks , demanded changes in the procedures that come into play after that time . |
| 7 | Erm if ever I say if ever get a fifty year old in front of me I say , Hey let's prove them wrong . |
| 8 | Today 's announcment ends a fifty year association between Upper Heyford and the American Airforce . |
| 9 | Mrs Margaret Johnson , a 32 year old housewife living in Sutton Coldfield , came on like a country western singer . |
| 10 | He claims to have been paddling for 26 years , not bad for a 32 year old . |
| 11 | The woman has been identified as a 32 year old from the Bristol area , who 'd been missing since early on Friday , but detectives wo n't name her until her family have been told . |
| 12 | For example , a 70 year old person living alone would have their income made up to £53.40 a week . |
| 13 | In McGregor v Adcock 51 TC 692 , decided in 1977 , a 70 year old farmer sold five of his 35 acres for development , and the Court held that there had been a sale of assets of the business and not part of the business , thus denying retirement relief . |
| 14 | ‘ Alan George ’ was one of a batch of locos built to toil at Penrhyn Quarries in North Wales , withdrawn in 1953 after a 70 year working life . |
| 15 | The military also opened fire on a women 's demonstration in the village of Beit Hanoun where a 70 year old woman was beaten by soldiers . |
| 16 | The magistrates were told that from Febrary this year , until early September , he 'd been caught shoplifting , he 'd attacked police , kicked a police car , stolen a handbag from a 70 year old woman who was now afraid to go out , and caused criminal damage . |
| 17 | In Lisburn , a 70 year old woman died after she was struck by a car at Queens Road shortly after noon . |
| 18 | erm Because the loggers have been , as I said earlier , logging 24 hours around the clock , and they 're supposed to be logging over a 70 year cycle , and they 're not because the companies have only got three year licenses , and basically the indigenous people have just had enough , so they started to block the logging roads . |
| 19 | The total jobless for more than 12 months stands at 956,000 , a four-and-a-half year high . |
| 20 | Lamb , of 34A Howard Place , Edinburgh , has denied the allegations , which cover a four-and-a-half year period between 1985 and 1988 . |
| 21 | At the Raja 's insistence Tara was chained up to a 500 year old tree . |
| 22 | Behold the Mona Lisa and a 500 year old mystery solved . |
| 23 | Finally , Terry Steventon , a fifty-five year old electrical engineer , writes : |
| 24 | The problems of changing from a forty year old state economy to a free market were presented recently at the HCIMA London Branch German Dinner , held in the University of North London Training Restaurant by Horst Leyer representing HCIMA Germany . |
| 25 | But of course if salaries go up evenly throughout a forty year lifespan and the Chairman is given a forty year lifespan which is quite or pension lifespan which is quite a suitable one , if salaries go up and someone leaves their company every ten years , then the first three departures are obviously going to be at much lower salary levels and it 's not going to be satisfactory the first three departures are just index linked to inflation , there is the problem of how does one index link them towards the final salary . |
| 26 | But of course if salaries go up evenly throughout a forty year lifespan and the Chairman is given a forty year lifespan which is quite or pension lifespan which is quite a suitable one , if salaries go up and someone leaves their company every ten years , then the first three departures are obviously going to be at much lower salary levels and it 's not going to be satisfactory the first three departures are just index linked to inflation , there is the problem of how does one index link them towards the final salary . |
| 27 | Yes , the reason why we picked a forty year lifespan of work or working life er with four tens was because Professor Good himself told us that er on their research the common employment pattern today is in fact four employers over the working life and of course that is very different from the experience of many pensioners who are drawing today from their pension funds , because many of them were long-term , long-service employees throughout their lives with one employer . |
| 28 | In ‘ Pride and Prejudice ’ there is no chasm between the opinions and ethics of a forty year old and an eighteen year old . |
| 29 | Well , anybody could see that the stupid bu er the way they 've he was made up to look like a forty year old and he still looked like a twenty year old ! |
| 30 | Barber then began what was to be a 43 year long career with May & Baker , as research chemist under Dr A. J. Ewins , FRS , carrying out process research in support of the manufacture of products such as neoarsphenamine ( NAB ) for treating syphilis . |