Example sentences of "year and [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would last six years and would cost , at their own rough estimate , three million six hundred thousand and a few odd francs . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've had her two and a half years and would do anything to defend her . ’ |
| 3 | If this House were to apply such a principle it would involve going beyond what any of the authorities have decided , departing from such decisions as Slater v. Burnley Corporation ; William Whiteley Ltd. v. The King and Twyford v. Manchester Corporation which have stood for many years and would involve making new law . |
| 4 | The nationality rule was a beautiful get-out for them , but I only had a few months to go before I 'd been here for ten years and would have been entitled to fight for the title . |
| 5 | ‘ I AM talking about a man that has done 26 years behind bars and if he had done the same crime today he would have got 10 years and would have got out five years ago ’ — actor Mike Reid on Reggie Kray . |
| 6 | The pardon stipulated that Aoun , Jamrah and Ma'luf should live abroad for at least five years and would lose their immunity if they engaged in political activity during that period . |
| 7 | As far as William was concerned , seizing the English throne was just one move in his struggle to resist the growing power of France that had already lasted twenty years and would take up the whole of the rest of his life . |
| 8 | Woodacon has sponsored the team for the last four years and would like to take this opportunity to wish them all well for the future . |
| 9 | The millimetre to centimetre scale alternations , which record periods of more or less intense upwelling , represent time scales of several years to several tens of years and may represent a response to some internal oscillations of the equatorial Pacific such as El Nino . |
| 10 | Ramapithecus lasted for about 7 million years and may have then given rise to the first true hominid , Australopithecus , which has a similar dental structure . |
| 11 | Thus , overall level of national development of degree of urbanization may influence the relationship of mother 's residence to levels of health and mortality among infants and children below the age of five years and may account , in part , for some differences in patterns among countries that are noted below . |
| 12 | He hated changing in front of others — and this from a man who played rugby with fourteen other men week in week out for years and must have huddled with them in the cramped and corrugated spaces of dressing rooms up and down the country . |
| 13 | I 've been family member for twelve years and must have seen a thousand children , and of those , barely fifty had both their natural mother and father ! |
| 14 | Pupils must be aged between 13 and 18 years and must have studied French for at least three years . |
| 15 | Members must have been trading in the UK for at least two years and must disclose their turnover and profits — lack of profits are not a bar to membership however , he added , because ‘ we would hate to disallow the big international business machine companies ’ . |
| 16 | The World Cup series slalom at Holme Pierrepont on May 30th–31st will be the most important British slalom for some years and will draw a very high class field of paddlers ahead of the Olympic Games . |
| 17 | It will run from the end of November 1992 for five years and will cover all our principal disciplines including mechanical , electrical , instrumentation and process control . |
| 18 | Its population has doubled in the past ten years and will double again in the next ten ; its growth is due as much to the constant influx of newcomers from the Nile villages as to Egypt 's birth-rate . |
| 19 | Options will be granted under seal and will be exercisable within a period of ten years and will entitle the recipients to acquire ordinary shares in the Company at a price determined by the Committee , being not less than the average of the middle market quotations for such shares as derived from the Daily Official List of The Stock Exchange for the three dealing days immediately preceding the date of grant or the market value ( as agreed with the Inland Revenue ) of the shares as at the date of grant ( or , in the case of new shares , their nominal value if greater ) . |
| 20 | This is its highest level for eight years and will result in an increase of at least one per cent on home loan rates , possibly more . |
| 21 | Although Computing Science ( or Computer Science ) as a field has changed dramatically in the last ten years and will continue to do so in the next ten , I do not believe its boundaries have altered significantly . |
| 22 | Enterprise Training recorded its most successful year for many years and will continue to focus on increasing the range of its training activities . |
| 23 | The dis-used brick pit has been a tip for 10 years and will continue as one for 30 more . |
| 24 | The infusion of cash to the Antarctic should be worth A$50 to 80 million over the next four to five years and will open up the continent to direct flights from Australia . |
| 25 | A qualified homoeopath will have studied for at least three years and will spend a great deal of time in compiling a detailed history of the patient , including character , antecedents , likes and dislikes and so on . |
| 26 | It is hoped the Forum will broker an average of £1m new projects a year in the first three years and will seek to raise the profile of the industry through international events and through press coverage . |
| 27 | The UK Department of Trade & Industry on Monday licensed a new transatlantic telephone operator on Monday , and the company has now begun operating : Swiftcall Ltd is using lines that it leases from Mercury Communications Ltd with calls to be delivered in the US by Sprint Corp , and will charge between 25 pence and 28 pence a minute plus tax , with a sign-on fee of £1,000 for companies , £50 for residential subscribers , the fee to be set against call charges until it runs out ; Swiftcall founder Tom McCabe told the paper that even at 30% capacity , he could reach annual turnover of £10m and make a substantial profit ; he plans a £2m investment in the first three years and will run the service with a staff of four from the World Trade Centre , near the Tower of London . |
| 28 | Those of you who were present at the AGM will be aware that we have been told by the GAP that the Society 's grant will be drastically reduced during the next few years and will cease after 1991 . |
| 29 | I knew Moore for many years and can testify that he was a master of lifelike representation . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , I would predict that we will see Ray 's name in the records books before long , though , perhaps not until he turns the grand old age of 60 in another three or four years and can make a new charge up the age-group ladder . |