Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [prep] the [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The decision-making procedures within the BEA were , however , slow and , even when a decision to advance design had been taken , some headquarters engineers argued that there should be no change in station designs even in the two years before its sets were ordered ( typically seven years before planned commissioning and eight years before actual commissioning ) . |
| 2 | Did you live an in any other countries in between the two years ? |
| 3 | Fraser ( of Neill 's printing office ) said in his evidence to the Fair Wages Committee in 1908 that it was " three years , but they are not expert immediately after the three years " . |
| 4 | For ICI the excess is more than 10 percentage points in 16 years out of the 20 years . |
| 5 | Although apprentices wasted a lot of time in their early years , most of them had picked up enough of the trade to be useful typesetters long before the seven years were up . |
| 6 | First , there is an episode which Thucydides mentions neither in the Fifty Years nor as an ‘ alleged reason ’ in book i ; but it has a claim to be mentioned , because it is clear interference with the colonial empire of Sparta 's ally Corinth . |
| 7 | But Bede himself appears to limit Oswiu 's southern imperium chronologically to the three years following Penda 's overthrow . |
| 8 | ( i ) An applicant will have to have attended at least one major conference on medical negligence and one medical course for lawyers devoted specifically to enhancing the lawyers ' understanding of medicine generally in the three years prior to the application . |