Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] year [conj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's only ten years since the Comedy Store opened , but already there is a note of wistfulness creeping in for the good old days . |
| 2 | It is only two years since the League turned to a three-division format . |
| 3 | Five city banks actually lent less last year than the year before . |
| 4 | But we do not think the chancellor should raise taxes much next year because the recovery is too weak to accept that . |
| 5 | Perhaps next year or the year after we shall consider abandoning minimum sizes , landing everything and taking everything off catch quotas for each boat in order to abolish discards . |
| 6 | ‘ Any advantage the Americans have around the greens has been taken away this year because the rough is n't so severe , ’ added the Scot , who learned much about himself at Pebble Beach when he finished third behind Tom Kite . |
| 7 | The Persians had been driven from Greece not many years before the temple was begun , and the fight to free Greeks from them was still going on in the east . |
| 8 | It was just ten years since the introduction of the breathalyser and people were beginning to get complacent . |
| 9 | IT IS almost exactly 50 years since the world at large was first made aware of the monster of Loch Ness . |
| 10 | That had been twelve years ago , just one year after the Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council had promoted him to Director at the Atomic Energy Commission . |
| 11 | Robert Julius Matson had guessed right : the first train had come through just nine years after the town was founded in 1858 , pulling behind it the fertiliser works , the com mill , the seed-com warehouse , and with them the quiet prosperity that spawned the first Masonic lodge in 1871 , a voluntary fire brigade in ‘ 75 , the telephone in ‘ 84 and the first sewer in 1920 . |
| 12 | You , with a shrewd sense of your own advantage , realized that you were now liable to pay one hell of a lot of estate duty on your father 's gift to you because of his inconvenient death ; but that if he had died a fortnight later it would be six and not five years since the property was made over to you . |
| 13 | Forbes was thus a contemporary of Darwin and Huxley ; but because he died at the height of his powers just five years before the Origin of Species was published , and because despite his time in Paris he remained an outdoor natural historian having little temptation towards laboratory-based physiology , his work was incomplete and soon seemed obsolete . |
| 14 | That was where she and her husband , Karl , had been crowned as king and queen of the Hungarian half of the empire in December 1916 , just two years before the empire broke up . |
| 15 | Around 700 pit workers were made redundant , just two years after the colliery was praised by the Government for breaking production records . |
| 16 | In the year 2303 , exactly two years after the invasion began , the Phoenix King and Tyrion met at Tor Achare , the capital of Chrace . |
| 17 | Michael Rock , who 'd allowed his house in London to be used by the gang , was jailed for 10 years and a 76-year-old courier , George Chay , who 'd brought LSD into Britain from California , was jailed for just four years because the judge said he did n't want him to die in prison . |
| 18 | What we 've got to get over now is the need for action straight away , not next year or the year after . |
| 19 | As our pictures show , careful make-up and styling can take off more years than the surgeon 's knife . |
| 20 | Even so , it remains true that the performance of the individual is a function of the way he developed skills in his earlier more formative years and the way in which his capacities and skills are still changing in the work environment . |
| 21 | These toys are not suitable for children under five years and the offer is available , while stocks last , up to and including Saturday , September 26 . |
| 22 | Although still two years before the Club was constituted , the land had clearly been earmarked for a golf course , and in 1906 ‘ The Syndicate ’ , as the company was known locally , agreed to sell this same 70 acres of land to a nucleus of people who were to form the kernel of the Club 's future bondholders , but who were then merely interested persons . |
| 23 | ‘ Devaluation will mean a price increase on our cars early next year but the removal of the car tax effectively means a rationalisation of how much customers will be expecting to spend . |
| 24 | It was nearly forty years since the history master had bawled him out on the pavement over there , in front of the House of Commons . |
| 25 | A company like BP has paid money to the Welsh water authority in order to be able to discharge through the authority 's outfall , and it will not be until later this year that the public will be able to find out the results of any testing . |
| 26 | The project will be completed in two phases , one later this year and the other in January , 1994 . |
| 27 | Pc Barlow 's present dog , Ben , is due to retire later this year and the officer from Thorpe-le-Soken is trying to find a replacement . |
| 28 | It is nearly ten years since the Health and Safety at Work Act made statutory provisions for trade union involvement in occupational health and safety . |
| 29 | By the time of his final payment in 1676 , Isaac Abendana had completed translating the Mishnah into Latin , nearly thirty years after the project first began to be discussed in the Hartlib circle , although his labours were never published . |
| 30 | ALL good news , but I fear that taxes may have to go up next year if the Chancellor misses his projected £244.5bn target on spending . |