Example sentences of "that [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Massive May Day marches in Madrid and other cities will be one symbol that 500 years after Spain ‘ discovered ’ America , a new group of Spanish workers is discovering their own power and using it against their own government . |
| 2 | It may be of interest to note that 760 years after this visit there is living in Halling today a person whose grandfather , Robert Langton , a friend and biographer of Charles Dickens , claimed descent from the family of this Archbishop . |
| 3 | It amuses me that eight years ago I had two homes — but I digress again . |
| 4 | He welcomed the opportunity to move to a British company and he felt in any case that eight years was probably long enough at the top of any major company . |
| 5 | That We must remember that 300 years ago British slavers dragged millions of Africans halfway round the world to work on British sugar plantations in the Caribbean ? |
| 6 | It is interesting to note that 300 years ago in a census to find the number of Conformists , Catholics and Nonconformists , that Hailing was given as " no Papists , no Nonconformists but 60 Conformists " . |
| 7 | It is in this profoundly grateful and reverent sene , certainly not with any heartless flippancy , that forty years later in the prison stockade Pound greets the sunset as a designer — ‘ grand couturier ’ . |
| 8 | What might be more dangerous is that forty years of so-called socialism have made people accustomed to a kind of egalitarianism , so that they will not readily tolerate great differences in income or lifestyle . |
| 9 | For Rosemary , the insult on top of all the cruelty is in the fact that forty years had to pass before she was able to find the courage to lift the lid on the private hell that she 's bottled up all those years . |
| 10 | Robert Gates , the director of the US Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) , has told a Senate select committee that forty years of inadequate nuclear waste handling have created high risk of nuclear disasters in the former Soviet Union . |
| 11 | In post-war years , from a maximum of 58 million passengers in 1950 , a steady decline has set in , so that 30 years later the annual total was only 8½ million . |
| 12 | He was in fact an excellent schoolboy quarter-miler ( thus proving another old adage of mine , that if you were very good in your youth you 'll be a very good Vet , no matter that 30 years may have passed since you last pulled on running shoes ) . |
| 13 | The scale can be illustrated by the fact that 30 years ago our young people were maturing at a later stage than now , but in many cases were leaving school at an earlier age and taking up employment — the gap between adolescence and employment was perhaps only 12 months . |
| 14 | They say that 30 years ago everyone recognised it instantly as belonging to the late of Orwell Lodge ( 's step great-grandmother ) . |
| 15 | Mr Hooker estimates that 12 years ago , when he paid £1.50 for his first grip , there were up to 100 collectors of whom he knew a couple of dozen . |
| 16 | It gives me some satisfaction to learn that 12 years later British Airways , privatised , efficient , and highly profitable , has become the biggest international airline in the world , while Lufthansa , struggling with high costs , has seen its reputation slip . |
| 17 | Mr Cook argued that 10 years of Thatcherism had been forced on most people , who had never voted Conservative , and that many of those who opposed PR in the Labour Party wanted to use the same undemocratic power ‘ to ram socialism down the throats of a majority who did n't vote for it ’ . |
| 18 | The Opposition replied , ’ That was 10 years ago ’ , to which my hon. Friend the Member for Teignbridge ( Mr. Nicholls ) , whom I commend for this observation , said , that 10 years was a very long time for the Leader of the Opposition and 10 minutes was about the average length of every policy that he had put forward . |
| 19 | Built in 1864 — 71 , Thoresby was one of the famous Nottinghamshire ‘ Dukeries ’ that 100 years ago made up the most illustrious group of houses in Britain . |
| 20 | DESPITE ALL THE changes that 100 years of modern style have brought , the tie is still the focal point of the male wardrobe . |
| 21 | She had decided that six years was a price worth paying . |
| 22 | When Cruz , a substitute opponent , beat him in the Nevada desert , the Ulsterman could never have guessed that six years later , from a Belfast court room , he would receive a bigger blow than the Texan ever dealt him . |
| 23 | His proposal was such a departure from traditional Antarctic programmes that three years elapsed before support was provided and field preparations completed . |
| 24 | Gone are the days when organisations automatically recruited new graduates irrespective of their degree topic on the basis that three years at university show that someone has the intelligence and application needed to hold down a job . |
| 25 | If the magistrate before whom an accusation of theft was initially brought felt that three years imprisonment was appropriate , he had to commit the case to the Supreme Court . |
| 26 | They did not realise that three years would elapse before Black 's injuries would be sufficiently stabilised to enable them to be measured by his doctors or that there are factors in the functioning of the United Kingdom judicial system which would thwart him from securing justice in the courts . |
| 27 | Richter told Tank of his own revolutionary ideas — that three years after the explosion of the first hydrogen bomb , he knew how to make a controlled fusion reactor . |
| 28 | ( An irony of the conference was that not one shred of evidence was produced for the central assertion that three years ' full time training in research was essential . ) |
| 29 | Nicholas Reeves says that three years of collecting is reflected in the exhibition , ( among the difficulties of acquiring top quality pieces is the fact that it is currently illegal to export antiquities from Egypt ) . |
| 30 | But the remarkable thing is that three years ago Euravia did n't exist at all — except in the mind of its founder , Denis Mendoros , who had only lately arrived from his native Greece . |