Example sentences of "[be] [adj] year [conj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been eight years since the council published its accounts on time . |
| 2 | Allowing for unseen problems , which are always a factor in the unstable Middle East , it is likely to be 10–14 years before the power is switched on . |
| 3 | It could be 5 years before the drug is fully proved and generally available . |
| 4 | Lord Boyd-Carpenter said that criticism was unhappily ‘ not confined to the other side ’ and it would be many years before the scheme would bear fruit . |
| 5 | Naturally , losing an order is a serious matter , but with job production it normally means waiting a short period before being asked to quote again for a different job , whereas with flow production it might be two years before the model is changed and the opportunity is provided to quote again ( by which time the buyer might have forgotten the existence of the salesperson ! ) . |
| 6 | It had been five years since the President had last presented the awards for gallantry and to voluntary workers , and in his opening remarks he reflected that in that time over 7,600 lives had been saved , 180 new boats built and lifeboat technology had advanced by leaps and bounds . |
| 7 | The church is in Romanesque style , but in this case it is mock-Romanesque , completion being many years after the style had ceased to be used . |
| 8 | Of course , these were difficult years and the life of his term of office on the County Council was extended by one year by the Government because of , because abolition was imminent . |
| 9 | ( For the BD the usual minimum time is six years and the maximum is nine . ) |
| 10 | The electoral cycle ( and thus the normal term of office for a councillor ) is three years and the pattern is as follows : |
| 11 | In fact , the United Kingdom has never had , in the course of this century , a simple two-party system and it is many years since the party eventually forming government secured a majority of primary votes cast , let alone the votes of a majority of electors . |
| 12 | It is many years since the town last saw a train , but the group believes that for about £1m. the railway could once again link Guisborough with the rest of the country via the Esk Valley line from Middlesbrough to Whitby . |
| 13 | Thus the first of Turan 's lists notes that it is nine years since the death of " sultan al- " ulema Muhammad Shah Pasha , Mevlana Shams al-Din Fenari-oglu " ( which therefore would have occurred in 840 ) , while the lists given by Menage record the death of " sultan al- " ulema Muhammad Shah Pasha " in 839 . |
| 14 | Category 4 consists of indecent assaults falling short of penetration where the maximum is four years if the victim is over 16 , six years if the latter is under 16 . |
| 15 | Hello there this week we 've come to the coast to go climbing with three local mountaineers … the sport is celebrating at the moment … it 's thirty years since the conquest of Everest and every weekend you 'll find climbers out on the cliffs and craggs of britain |
| 16 | It 's two years since the world recoiled in horror when they saw Ceaucescu 's orphans . |
| 17 | It 's seven years since the bypass was first planned . |
| 18 | It was that year that the world was introduced to the idea conceived by Sir Rowland Hill — postage stamps — the first of the one penny stamps , black in colour , which could be used to send a letter through the postal system called the Post Office . |
| 19 | It was many years since the assassin 's eyes had taken the pleasure they did now , seeing him . |
| 20 | It was many years since the Deputy Under Secretary had taken such a holiday ; his previous inclination would have been — towards fishing the west country salmon rivers or stalking the Scottish moors . |
| 21 | The motion was moved by the Rev Canon John Dale ( Worcester ) who said it was five years since the request for legislation on women priests was made . |
| 22 | It was five years before the roofleaf became plentiful again . |