Example sentences of "[adj] time in [art] [adj] years " in BNC.
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1 | I went out half a dozen times in the three years we were married . |
2 | The GP said that Peter had been to see her many times in the two years that he had been married , with small ailments that seemed to be stress-related . |
3 | There were many times in the past years when he had wondered why on earth he had involved himself with the Hochhauser Season , times when he was worried , exhausted , furious , and prepared to consign the whole company to hell . |
4 | He still considered himself something of a failed journalist ( NME amongst others , had turned him down five times in the early years ) and he often expressed a desire to use his new found influence to move into spasmodic fits of journalese . |
5 | As a result of these developments in microelectronics , the annual use of computing power increased by about 2000 times in the twenty years between 1960 and 1980 . |
6 | In just under two hours time Oxford Prison will close down , leaving the city without a gaol for the first time in a thousand years . |
7 | The result was to leave London without an elected representative body for the first time in a hundred years , and all the metropolitan areas without an authority responsible for producing an overall strategic plan . |
8 | One of Oxford 's two remaining women-only colleges has tonight decided to admit men for the first time in a hundred years . |
9 | That night , with our generator and four lightbulbs , we illuminated the Keraing 's house and electrified the village for the first time in the thirty-odd years since the invading Japanese had withdrawn from Indonesia . |
10 | This was the first time in the 47 years of its history that the UN had met at the top level . |
11 | A stock judging team from the north-west area won the British Holstein Society 's Royal Show contest for the seventh time in the nine years during which these competitions have been run . |
12 | Cut through the Arch Duke 's sleevenotes and poems ( a bit hippy ) to discover that he is funnier and more inventive than at any time in the intervening years . |
13 | No father ( of a case or control ) had accumulated a recorded dose of more than 5 mSv before his child was conceived , and no father had been monitored at any time in the four years before his child was conceived . |
14 | The Code also applies to offers for private companies so resident where : ( 1 ) their equity share capital has been listed on the London Stock Exchange at any time in the ten years before the relevant date ; ( 2 ) dealings in their equity share capital have been advertised in a newspaper on a regular basis for a continuous period of at least six months in the ten years prior to the relevant date ; ( 3 ) their equity share capital has been the subject of a marketing arrangement as described in CA 1985 , s163(2) ( b ) ( eg on the USM ) at any time in the ten years prior to the relevant date ; or ( 4 ) the company has filed a prospectus for the issue of equity share capital at the Companies Registry at any time in the ten years before the relevant date . |
15 | The Code also applies to offers for private companies so resident where : ( 1 ) their equity share capital has been listed on the London Stock Exchange at any time in the ten years before the relevant date ; ( 2 ) dealings in their equity share capital have been advertised in a newspaper on a regular basis for a continuous period of at least six months in the ten years prior to the relevant date ; ( 3 ) their equity share capital has been the subject of a marketing arrangement as described in CA 1985 , s163(2) ( b ) ( eg on the USM ) at any time in the ten years prior to the relevant date ; or ( 4 ) the company has filed a prospectus for the issue of equity share capital at the Companies Registry at any time in the ten years before the relevant date . |
16 | The Code also applies to offers for private companies so resident where : ( 1 ) their equity share capital has been listed on the London Stock Exchange at any time in the ten years before the relevant date ; ( 2 ) dealings in their equity share capital have been advertised in a newspaper on a regular basis for a continuous period of at least six months in the ten years prior to the relevant date ; ( 3 ) their equity share capital has been the subject of a marketing arrangement as described in CA 1985 , s163(2) ( b ) ( eg on the USM ) at any time in the ten years prior to the relevant date ; or ( 4 ) the company has filed a prospectus for the issue of equity share capital at the Companies Registry at any time in the ten years before the relevant date . |