Example sentences of "year [coord] [conj] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recently , it was found that a mentally handicapped woman in Durham had been wrongly denied benefit for a number of years and that the cumulative total was £25,000 . |
| 2 | The absence of any relation between birth weight and change in blood pressure percentile rank between 5–7 and 9–11 years suggested that the relation between birth weight and blood pressure is established by 5–7 years and that the subsequent increase in the strength of the association is due to blood pressure tracking and to the increasing dispersion of the blood pressure distribution with age . |
| 3 | Mr Wilson said that police forces had been working with inadequate law for years and that the drafted change would , it was hoped , improve the situation . |
| 4 | In winter 1980–81 a Western specialist on South Asia , Selig Harrison , suggested that a formula involving the emergence of a provisional government in Afghanistan might win Soviet acceptance if could provide for arrangements under which Moscow could withdraw from that country in a phased fashion over several years and if the new Afghan government could return to the pre-1973 Soviet-tilted brand of neutralism . |
| 5 | It is difficult to provide any comparable data over the last thirty years and though the general impression is one of slight reduction in socio-economic inequalities in GP consultation , this should not be taken for granted . |
| 6 | The network has been under trial since July last year and although the switching equipment for the trial was supplied by Alcatel NV , the final order , worth £3m , went to GEC Plessey Telecommunications Ltd in conjunction with Siemens AG , against bids from AT&T Co , Alcatel and others . |
| 7 | Moreover , from the annual and diurnal growth patterns of organisms , preserved as fossils , it has been established , for example , that about 380 Ma ago there were about 400 ‘ days ’ in the year and as the orbital period of the Earth is very unlikely to have changed the ‘ day ’ must then have contained only about 22 hours . |
| 8 | The face was spotted from canoes last year and though an alpine approach is possible , a seaborne approach seems a good alternative . |