Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] year [conj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is interesting to note that bullhead rail is still in evidence some forty years after the infant British Railways adopted flat-bottom rail as standard . |
| 2 | All this six years after the hospital was opened at a cost to the taxpayer of £27m ( the region 's ‘ flagship ’ ) . |
| 3 | Brazil was the first South American country to host the Federation Cup in 1984 , some 21 years after the event was founded . |
| 4 | Every broken marriage , every wrecked career must have one , in some form or another , and doubtless career and marriage might have drifted aimlessly on together for a few more years if the sea had been clear of Carlas , but it would have ended some time or other , and possibly with a lot more pain than there was now . |
| 5 | It will be another five years before the gun comes into common use . |
| 6 | Within a few hours he cancelled on the grounds that the subject was ‘ too sensitive ’ — some twelve years after the amalgamation of his library had taken place . |
| 7 | It is likely to be another two years before the case goes before the Court of Session . |
| 8 | In fact , it was to be another two years before the situation changed radically . |
| 9 | But Sir Colin indicated that it could be another two years before the truth is made public . |
| 10 | I remained in prison another two years until the government graciously let me out under the amnesty in May 1983 . |
| 11 | I was once offered a John Wesley letter which had the slight blemish of being written on paper watermarked some thirty years after the evangelist died , and on another occasion a letter from a supposed Trafalgar seaman , mentioning officers and members of the crew who were not on the muster roll of the ship concerned . |
| 12 | So , why has the PC taken so long to get to grips with the market and how is it faring today , some two years after the phrase ‘ desktop publishing ’ was coined . |
| 13 | He described it as the ‘ old ’ fell race but it was started a few hundred years after the feast originated . |
| 14 | The 3 = 10 9 years since the origin of life has been more than sufficient for this number of generations . |
| 15 | He adds : ‘ It has been a good few years since the snow has been this hard which means a lot of walkers are n't used to it . |
| 16 | How many more years before the bonus cancels itself out ? |
| 17 | What I said at the last committee was I merely advised the committee that if they went ahead in this current financial year that the grant would not be available . |
| 18 | BR 's own acknowledgement of the Class 40s ' popularity , and therefore revenue potential , was the renovation of the 1958 pioneer locomotive D200 to working order , and original livery , for use on special trains for a full three years after the rest of the class had been retired . |
| 19 | It also marked a record sixth consecutive year that the number one men 's seed will not win the title . |
| 20 | Clearly Parliament would last its full five years and the Government could not bring it to a premature end . |
| 21 | Traditional family gatherings happen at festivals like Chinese New Year and the Moon Festival , when the moon is round and everyone comes together , no matter how far away they live . |
| 22 | Mortgage tax relief is expected to cost the Exchequer £4.3 billion next year but the cut in tax relief will reduce the bill by £900 million in 1994/95 and £960 million in the following year . |
| 23 | Whatever else it is , though , it has been successful in conventional business terms , although not as successful this year as the table suggests . |
| 24 | I feel that we need now new blood on the committee , and coupled with the fact that I 've done one one more year than the constitution says I should , I 'm not standing for reelection as Chairman . |
| 25 | IT IS almost one hundred years since the abolition of the Metropolitan Board of Works in London brought to an end a 20 year orgy of building in the Victorian capital . |
| 26 | You sent her one last year and the year before is n't it ? |
| 27 | ( 1 ) Without prejudice to its other powers under this Act , a licensing board may make byelaws for any of the following purposes ( a ) for closing licensed premises wholly or partially on New Year 's Day , and on such other days not being more than four in any one year as the board may think expedient for special reasons ; ( b ) for prohibiting holders of licences from residing in their licensed premises , or for requiring the dwellinghouses of holders of licences to be separate from their licensed premises ; ( c ) for requiring all wines , made-wines and spirits sold by the holder of an off-sale licence to be sold in corked , stoppered or sealed vessels , cans , jars or casks ; ( d ) for requiring every holder of a hotel or public house licence to keep in his licensed premises and to renew from day to day a sufficient supply of drinking water , and such eatables as may be specified in the byelaw , and to display , offer and supply the same as may be required by the byelaw ; ( e ) for printing a list of all applications coming before any meeting of the licensing board , with such other information as may be considered necessary by the board ; ( f ) for the setting out of conditions which may be attached to licences for the improvement of standards of , and conduct in , licensed premises ; ( g ) for the granting of a licence of a type other than that applied for ; Provided that a byelaw made under paragraph ( c ) above shall not apply to licensed premises where no groceries are kept or sold and where a bona fide wholesale business in alcoholic liquor is carried on . |
| 28 | The Committee to Protect Journalists ( CPJ ) has reported that more journalists were killed carrying out their professional duties in 1991 than in any other year since the formation of the committee ten years ago . |
| 29 | More personal equity plans were taken out in the 12 months to April 1992 than in any other year since the PEP scheme was set up in 1987 . |
| 30 | Also , with healthy deciduous trees , the leaves all come with great show every Spring and die off in the Autumn — but more come each successive year cos the tree has grown a bit so the foliage is thicker , more complex in structure — until it dies of course . |