Example sentences of "[adv prt] [num] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was one of the most powerful , positive and visionary speeches I have heard her give in eleven years . |
| 2 | A pirate radio station , which was forced to close down eight years ago , is back on the air — but this time it 's completely legal . |
| 3 | The works closed down 7 years ago , but the camaraderie remains . |
| 4 | They are still worrying about the foundations of quantum mechanics that were laid down sixty-five years ago . |
| 5 | It was thus a revolution in British fiscal policy which Chamberlain advocated in the name of Empire ; and from his Birmingham speech in May 1903 until he was struck down three years later his advocacy of tariff reform and his Imperial theme dominated British policies . |
| 6 | In fact , Benedetti , himself a specialist in Caravaggio , did not recognise the hand of the master until the picture was taken down three years ago and he had an opportunity to examine it under a strong light . |
| 7 | By early January 1945 , observers in the Stuttgart area were pointing out that Mein Kampf was being — rather belatedly — cited to prove that Germany had itself to blame for the war , that Hitler 's expansionist aims which he had laid down twenty years earlier were the cause of the war , and that it was therefore clear that ‘ the Führer has worked for war from the very beginning ’ . |
| 8 | Most of the ancient city walls were pulled down twenty years ago and the gate now stands alone on a traffic island like a great beached whale washed up on the edge of the city . |
| 9 | The future is a plate of steel floor covering that creaks and whistles as it is dragged clear of the supports to which it was bolted down thirty years before . |
| 10 | According to an oral tradition first set down thirty years after her death by Samuel Peckover , a prominent local Quaker , she was said to have been born in Paris , the daughter of James , Duke of York , then in exile , and an unnamed maid of honour to Queen Henrietta Maria , and to have lived at the English court from the Restoration to 1688 without , apparently , any contemporary ever noticing her . |
| 11 | That site was turned down four years ago on environmental grounds . |
| 12 | It was taken down 200 years later in order to widen Cheapside . |
| 13 | The former Air Chief Marshall and Governor General of Gibraltar was gunned down two years ago while in the drawing room of his mock-Tudor house in the village of Milford , Staffs . |
| 14 | INF ( Intermediate-Range Nuclear Force ) talks began at Geneva in November 1981 but broke down two years later . |
| 15 | The only shop burned down two years before , but the garage sold basic essentials . |
| 16 | The equipment was kept at Harwell in case of an emergency … but it 's not needed anymore since the reactor was shut down two years ago . |
| 17 | It remained a thriving rock disco during the Eighties but closed down two years ago . |
| 18 | Maggie 's only forty two , she 's only three years old no hang on six years older than me you 're two |
| 19 | This photograph of SWANAGE BAY was taken over fifty years after Morton Pitt 's brief sojourn in Swanage , yet there is surprisingly little change . |
| 20 | Adam also wrote the De Utensilibus ad Domum Regendam , a treatise composed after returning to his native village which he had left over eleven years before ; its use of quaint and archaic words was designed to show his knowledge of learned terminology in naming objects of everyday life . |
| 21 | The quick redemption of bonds seems to have been envisaged from the early days for this kind of comment recurs. that the repayment took over 75 years to accomplish is remarkable , but that it is so is attributable to three things , compounded by other factors such as two World Wars . |
| 22 | She had been forced , largely by high interest rates , to close the Kent fencing business her father took over 30 years ago . |
| 23 | Taken over 10 years , it was equivalent to an annual rise of 7.5 per cent — nearly four per cent higher than the current inflation rate . |
| 24 | WH SMITH has dropped its legal action against five directors it dismissed in August from Our Price Music , the record retailing chain it took over three years ago . |
| 25 | The ill-fated Stirling , Central plant closed by Wang Laboratories Inc and taken over three years ago by Compaq Computer Corp as a repair and service centre , is to close again with the work going to Erskine . |
| 26 | The BA pass degree consists of thirteen classes ( or their equivalent ) taken over three years — five classes taken in the first year and usually four in each of the following two years . |
| 27 | In 1837 Gooch was appointed joint principal engineer with George Stephenson and was responsible for the line 's construction , which was his greatest achievement and required many heavy civil-engineering works , including a two-mile tunnel under the Pennine hills , the boring of which from thirteen shafts took over three years . |
| 28 | The master 's degree is generally taken over three years and from 1992 it will be possible for teachers to take a Master of Education ( Management ) degree . |
| 29 | The 2-mile-long tunnel took over 4 years to build , from 1836 to 1841 , and at one stage 4,000 men and 300 horses were employed on it . |
| 30 | What is interesting , however , is that it has taken over ten years to bring about the changes Leonard anticipated . |