Example sentences of "[adj] year following the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the station was non-operational for a few years following the disaster it was fully operational again by April 1979 and since 1985 has had a modern Tyne class lifeboat on station to cover the wide stretch of north-east facing coast around the port . |
| 2 | For six years following the adoption in November 1927 by the PCF Central Committee of the " class against class " tactic , the party followed an increasingly doctrinaire , Bolshevik course . |
| 3 | From the early years following the introduction of the 1924 Regulations , experience showed that the net income derived from grant-aid , coupled with the District 's policy of setting its student fees at the lowest possible level to encourage enrolments , failed to lead to financial self-sufficiency and the District 's financial difficulties , although eased initially , were not eradicated . |
| 4 | The first part of the study examines the impact of financial arrangements made at the time of the divorce on the people directly concerned for the three years following the divorce . |
| 5 | TRANSITIONAL RELIEF : Personal community chargepayers in some properties may be entitled to relief in the first three years following the changeover from rates to the community charge . |
| 6 | For John Dunlop , the successful trainer , it was a second win in the juvenile event in three years following the victory of Ashayer in 1987 . |
| 7 | For three years following the completion of the Wilton power station next spring the NGC had special permission to operate below the legal transmission standards until the new line was built . |
| 8 | Many elderly people live in their own homes for many years following the death of a husband or a wife . |
| 9 | It is , however , now possible , historiographically , to divide the twenty-five years following the Council into two distinctly different eras — that of Paul VI and that of John Paul II . |
| 10 | Sally had been two stones ( 28lb/12.5kg ) overweight for ten years following the birth of her son . |
| 11 | The same fate will await any terms which restrict the ex-employee 's future employment prospects to any great extent ; for example , a term which states that a computer programmer can not work for computer software companies in the United Kingdom for five years following the termination of his employment . |
| 12 | On the other hand , it would be incorrect to suppose that the first influx of nuclear workers in Thurso did not produce the twofold or greater increase noted in rural new towns : the only two cases at ages 0–14 in the period 1951–67 occurred in the five years following the influx in 1958 ( expected 0.41 ; not significant ) . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , the twenty years following the Act were ones of such rapid development in policy in the child care field that by 1968 the Seebohm Report recommended the absorption of the child care service by unified social services departments and the merging of specialist child work into generic social work . |
| 14 | It is a history of morale boosting , of public money being made available from various sources from 1918 onwards : to enrich the life in remote villages in danger of being deserted by the exodus after the First World War ; to occupy the unemployed in the 1930s on Tyneside ; to counter the dreary effect of the ‘ blackout ’ during the Second World War ( this was the first instance in this country of government subsidy ) ; to bring a sense of wellbeing to the community during the difficult years following the war ; and in particular , to occupy bored young people . |
| 15 | For about a hundred years following the publication of Lamarck 's book , the common dog-whelk was known as Purpura lapillus ( L. ) -the brackets to show that Linnaeus had described his type under a different generic name . |
| 16 | In the two years following the return to civilian rule the activity of a considerable number of the news media became increasingly partisan . |
| 17 | For those teaching the sixteen to nineteen age group , for example , the development of pre-vocational training in recent years following the establishment of the Manpower Services Commission , the changing pattern of technician education as a result of the creation of TEC and BEC , and the growth in GCE work in the further education colleges have all placed new demands on them , including additional curriculum development and course assessment duties . |