Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] the [num ord] [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britain 's fight for better budgeting terms dominated much of the debate within the EEC for the first ten years of British membership , masking the more important questions of sovereignty and Federalism . |
| 2 | Mr Young , 77 , who directed the James Bond movies Dr No and From Russia With Love , has lived in Cannes for the last 20 years . |
| 3 | But Bob Bagnell , who has imported charcoal from Indonesia for the last four years , says his source is not endangering the environment . |
| 4 | 8–12 There have been extensive improvements going on in Jura during the last two years . |
| 5 | Waverley 's opening statement came from vice-chair Michele Munro , who said the trust board felt it was time to offer the benefits former Scottish Homes tenants in the Borders had enjoyed with Waverley for the last four years to Tweeddale tenants . |
| 6 | Seemed an odd move to sell him and then pay out such big amounts for Wallace and Rocky over the next 2 years . |
| 7 | A SUCCESSFUL tooling company is on the expansion trail , with hopes of 70 new jobs in North Powys over the next three years as a result of a £4m investment programme . |
| 8 | Italtel SpA is to install around 400,000 lines for Telecom Argentina SA over the next three years in a deal worth $600m : it says it will install the first 58,000 lines this year and the rest of them by 1996 |
| 9 | As in this family , there is some migration of young people from the rural areas to the towns of Northern Ireland but this movement is less than it has been in Scotland or England during the last 40 years . |
| 10 | At York he was able to write a weighty book , From Gore to Temple , which traced changes in Christian thought in England during the last eighty years . |
| 11 | DEC has filled the critical post of head of worldwide sales and marketing , naming Edward Lucente , once an IBM bright light and a top guy at Northern Telecom for the last two years , completing its new executive roster . |
| 12 | Vocational training for the actor as we know it has only existed in England for the last eighty years . |
| 13 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will give the total estimated annual operating costs of Trident for the first five years of operation . |
| 14 | Huntingtower has been cared for by custodian John Forsyth for the last 14 years . |
| 15 | A college report on a short experiment in mechanics A thesis for a higher degree in anthropology The findings of a young worker during Voluntary Service Overseas , on the social conditions in an African village The conclusions and opinions reached by the holder of a travelling scholarship on the variations in educational opportunities in several countries Findings on the depopulation of the countryside of S.W. England in the last 100 years Financial recommendations on a proposed merger of two large companies Economic proposals on the purchase and distribution of sugar in the E.E.C . |
| 16 | To ask the Secretary of State for Health what is the projected capital spending in the NHS in the next three years ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 17 | With a chilling prophecy he then stated that it would be the task of a great leader , Hitler for preference , to march into Russia in the next five years and place one half of the population in the lethal chamber and the other half in the zoo . |
| 18 | As I have already mentioned , the record of the NHS over the last 12 years in the constituencies of my hon. Friends is good , but we are not complacent . |
| 19 | I ca n't think of anywhere that the stage designs have been more consistently imaginative and beautifully realized than in Salzburg over the last twenty years . |
| 20 | We maintain a high level of capital expenditure to improve productivity and quality in production and packaging , exemplified by the investment of more than 200 million in Scotland and Spain over the next three years . |
| 21 | The company plans to develop a chain of 15 to 20 two- and three-star hotels in Scotland and Northern England over the next five years . |
| 22 | On the first day of the summit González signed with President Fernando Collor de Mello of Brazil an agreement according to which Spain would made loans and investments of US$3,000 million to Brazil over the next five years , including credits to finance Spanish exports to Brazil . |
| 23 | Travel plans have been curtailed so people can focus on the imminent launch later this month and people who have visited Redmond over the last 11 years say they 've never seen the intensity level so high . |
| 24 | Travel plans have been curtailed so people can focus on the imminent launch later this month and people who have visited Redmond over the last 11 years say they 've never seen the intensity level so high . |
| 25 | As the Venice Biennale approaches its centenary year , political machinations , seemingly so dear to the heart of Italian and particularly Venetian cultural activities , are holding up the appointment of new members of the Management Committee which is responsible for the programme of the Biennale over the next four years . |
| 26 | The contributions will provide the raw material for group discussions during the seminar , and will form the basis of strategies and plans to be implemented by WACC-LA/C over the next three years . |
| 27 | The 38-year-old player-manager has accepted a deal that will keep him at Hillsborough for the next three-and-a-half years . |
| 28 | A Bolivian , born in Paris into the Ortiz-Patino family who made their fortune in tin mining in South America after World War I , Ortiz has been resident in Geneva for the last twenty-five years . |
| 29 | Staff from his department would remain at their present headquarters near the House of Commons for the next three years . |
| 30 | More than half the money borrowed by Mexico , Venezuela and Argentina during the last ten years has effectively flowed out the back door , often in the same year or month it flowed in . |