Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] years [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cicely Hamilton commented in the course of a debate with G. K. Chesterton at Queen 's Hall in 1919 : ‘ Do you suppose that forty or fifty years ago a woman would have dared to stand up on a platform and say , without the slightest shame , that she was over thirty and unmarried ? |
| 2 | Two or three years ago a friend of mine who is a publisher applied to me for help in dealing with a complaint from a man who had bought one of his cookery books . |
| 3 | So if I was off for two or three years then the rate of inflation was high , then it would be ten per cent each those years |
| 4 | Robinson has a daughter who has to wait 12 months for an operation , it is no use telling her that 10 , 20 , or 25 years ago the situation was similar or much worse , because Mrs. Jones or Mrs. Robinson will still consider that the NHS is unsatisfactory today , and will naturally blame the Government . |
| 5 | It was buried in the rose garden at Dunure Mains but such was its fame that 4 years later the body was exhumed and taken to Kelvingrove Museum , Glasgow , where the skeleton is still on display , accompanied by an account of the legal battle over ownership of the horse . |
| 6 | But more than 50 years ago the idea of a TOM , or Transcendental Operations Module , was fairly new . |
| 7 | Less than 40 years ago the island had a population of about 150 , a schoolhouse , a post office — and a chapel serviced by priests from the mainland . |
| 8 | The result was that 15 years later the plaster was loose and needed replacement . |
| 9 | Sadly , less than two years later the couple were both dead . |
| 10 | As has often been the case , it is the artists who are the forerunners of fashion , and fifty years later the world and his wife craved for Windermere . |
| 11 | In 1894 he joined the Wilson Line in Hull as second mate of the SS Draco and three years later a chance meeting with the Norwegian explorer H. Borchgrevink , a passenger in his vessel , the Montebello , led to Colbeck 's joining the Southern Cross expedition ( 1898–1900 ) as magnetic observer , following an intensive course of instruction at Kew Observatory . |
| 12 | The employee had conceived the idea for the valve in March 1985 and was able to test it for the first time several months later ; the employer applied for a UK patent in March 1986 ; and three years later the employee applied for compensation . |
| 13 | This has fallen into disuse , having been used as a military hospital and to sleep troops in transit in the First World War , a Sunday school , a library , and up until five years ago a store for the church gardening equipment . |
| 14 | By 1800 , Nez Perce buffalo-hunting expeditions to the Yellowstone had become too dangerous , and five years later a council in the Kamiah valley resolved to obtain firearms for the tribe . |
| 15 | Four years later Andronikos unearthed the theatre in which Philip was assassinated in 336BC ; and five years later the tomb of Queen Eurydice , the grandmother of Alexander . |
| 16 | It was in 1851 that the Great Northern Railway established its locomotive works in Doncaster , and twelve years later the amalgamation of a number of railway companies led to the first regional monopoly , the North Eastern Railway , this business being engineered mainly by George Hudson , the ‘ Railway King ’ . |
| 17 | United Kingdom confectionery trade is worth two point six billion pounds , billion , and two years ago a figure that really astonished me when I saw it was that the total of all money that was given to development charities in the United Kingdom , including CAFOD , Christian Aid and Oxfam was equal to what Britain spent on one product made in York and that 's KitKat . |
| 18 | ESP 's business flourished and two years later the Company established a wholly-owned subsidiary , Submersible Oil Services Inc . |
| 19 | FitzRoy died in 1865 and two years later the department was reconstituted as the Meteorological Office under a meteorological committee appointed by the Royal Society . |
| 20 | In 1801 a mere twenty-five people lived in the four houses that comprised the settlement of Middlesborough and thirty years later the population stood at only 154 . |
| 21 | The venture was unsuccessful , and thirty-three years later the mill became a silk factory . |
| 22 | Watson 's 1844 plan shows at least twenty-eight thatched buildings , but eleven years later the town had only two . |
| 23 | In previous years the selection of the carnival queen had been organised by elimination contests in the town and surrounding villages , but 30 years ago the committee asked that young ladies should send in a copy of a recent photograph . |
| 24 | In 1923 , the collection opened to the public , but ten years later the mansion was declared a fire hazard and the paintings were moved to the recently built Philadelphia Museum of Art . |
| 25 | The couple decided against surgery but 15 years later the failure figure had dropped to only 20 pc and they decided to take the plunge . |
| 26 | But two years ago the idea popped up again , as part of the Lucas Aerospace workers ' alternative corporate plan . |
| 27 | A fine of $200,000 for violating customs laws brought her collecting to a halt in 1904 , but two years later the museum was open and Mrs Gardner was collecting again . |
| 28 | It was not that Nelson had died there , nor was it because many years ago the crucifix that hung there demanded obeisance . |
| 29 | The 1987 and 1992 figures are not strictly comparable because five years ago the Alliance had two separate leaders — David Owen and David Steel — who could each be named . |
| 30 | That kind of rise has helped to push the average purse available on the tour next year up to £340,000 , whereas 10 years ago the prize fund for the Open Championship was only £200,000 . |