Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] year [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similar criteria have often applied to the education officer who , after a few years in the classroom . |
| 2 | Hugh began as a chargehand in the Teasing Department , where he returned to become foreman after a few years in the Dyed Wool Blending Department . |
| 3 | If it had steeled itself to cross this threshold ( as Yemen bravely did a month ago ) , Egypt might today be afflicted by nothing worse than a bad case of anti-incumbency — hardly surprising after a dozen years with the same tired face at the top . |
| 4 | After a dozen years in the business Keener looks with particular affection on the recordings he has done with Leonard Slatkin , especially the Elgar and Vaughan Williams Symphonies . |
| 5 | After a dozen years in the Arkansas state-house he decided to run for president at time when President George Bush 's re-election was considered virtually certain . |
| 6 | Because FI , in the wake of Renault , was shifting towards the turbo engine and because McLaren was beginning to develop the TAG/ Porsche engine , 1982 was something of a transitional year at the team and both Niki and his team-mate John Watson suffered in the results table , Watson actually finishing ahead of Niki in the championship , the first time he had ever been upstaged within his own team . |
| 7 | The aim was to celebrate the arrival of a new year in the heart of capital and draw further attention to their movement . |
| 8 | For example , Matthew Paris , the medieval author of Historia Anglorum and who used the Nativity reckoning , wrote in consequence that certain eminent people were born , or died , on certain dates which were at a variance of a full year with the Historical . |
| 9 | The problems were the climax of a dreadful year for the family . |
| 10 | For one thing , the war was only a matter of a few years in the past and the number of potential suitors must have been severely limited , especially of the right intellect and calibre . |
| 11 | On June 3 US President Bush announced the waiver for a further year of the so-called Jackson-Vanik restrictions on trade with the Soviet Union . |
| 12 | Meeting together as joint members of the South Atlantic Fishing Commission in London on Dec. 5-6 , officials from the Argentine and United Kingdom governments agreed to extend a commercial fishing ban around the Falkland ( Malvinas ) Islands for a further year until the end of 1992 . |
| 13 | The rest took ‘ shortened honours ’ , some returning for a further year after the war to complete full honours — three achieving firsts , to bring the score for our year to seven . |
| 14 | DAVID NAISH was re-elected as president of the National Farmers Union of England and Wales for a third year at the union 's annual meeting last week . |
| 15 | I 've been friends for a few years with the head stalker of Corrour estate , Ted Piggott , and his wife Theresia . |
| 16 | They would rather continue earning this money for a few years with the hope of becoming financially independent , thus broadening their options and opportunities . |
| 17 | This brought the number of District Geologists in Edinburgh up to 3 , a repetition of the situation which had existed for a few years in the 1920s . |
| 18 | For a few years in the mid-1980s this pattern was reversed , and the number of people leaving the United Kingdom fell below the number entering . |
| 19 | For a few years in the Sixties , scooter clubs replaced cycling but the phase passed and the emphasis was switched again to entertainment and raising money for charity . |
| 20 | 1992–93 will be remembered as a good year for the University of Stirling for many reasons . |
| 21 | NINETEEN EIGHTY-TWO just might go down as a memorable year in the history of Britain , if not the rest of the world . |
| 22 | I mean they 're they 're talk , you was talking about a good year on the market round here . |
| 23 | any other purported balance sheet or profit and loss account dealing with a financial year of the company or group ) . |
| 24 | In the first month of that decree more than 180,000 passports were issued , twice as many as the average for an entire year under the previous regime . |
| 25 | Within a hundred years of the missionaries ' arrival many English men and women had enthusiastically adopted the monasticism which was considered the purest form of the Christian life and the surest way to salvation , and which had spread throughout western Europe in the fifth and sixth centuries . |
| 26 | In any case it succumbed within a few years to the stresses of the Seven Years War , and was not revived until 1775 . |
| 27 | In any case , one or another form of ‘ Christianity ’ must have reached Britain within a few years of the time specified by Gildas . |
| 28 | But within a few years of the end of the war , responsibility for trunk roads , gas , electricity , national assistance and hospital services had been transferred from local to central government control . |
| 29 | Within a few years of the introduction of the Dip.AD , it became apparent that all was not well and discontent in some of the art colleges culminated in the so-called ‘ revolution ’ of 1968 which centred on the then Hornsey and Guildford Colleges of Art . |
| 30 | How the serious issues emerged within a few years of the miracle of Heliodorus is the question . |