Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adv] a [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unseasoned and untreated timber , very frequently used in the ‘ sixties and early ‘ seventies in windows and doors , will rot in just a few years . |
| 2 | This is because those two theories postulate a particular event — the spontaneous arising of a self-replicating entity — as occurring only once in about a billion years , once per aeon . |
| 3 | In March 1992 I returned to New Zealand for the first time in over a dozen years , to sample again what light aviation there has to offer visitors . |
| 4 | His knowledge of Birkdale paid off handsomely a few years later as he accompanied Arnold Palmer to Palmer 's first Open win . |
| 5 | Peach pine , and when we took the porch down which had been up nearly a hundred years |
| 6 | Trade union de-recognition is having effect of reducing the solidarity of workers and of reducing rights built up over a hundred years of trade union movement . |
| 7 | Our limited perception of time has difficulty in imagining events and cycles dating back just a hundred years , yet archaeologists have germinated and grown wheat from grains four thousand years old , discovered in the tombs of the Egyptian Pharaohs . |
| 8 | They 're a way back about a hundred years here . |
| 9 | Certainly over the years the the major proportion of our fire fighting , in terms of secondary fires , what we term secondary fires , the bonfires , was always concentrated around this period and going back quite a few years we used to have special appliances put on standby , extra crews and so on . |
| 10 | We had last met over a year ago , when I went over to Paris to see an exhibition of the most wonderful Boucheron jewellery going back over a hundred years . |
| 11 | The harbour town of Watchet has a history going back over a thousand years and is still an active trading port . |