Example sentences of "which [num] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | The backdrop is the controversial ‘ SS ’ logo painted over a prison wall on which 500 years are marked off . |
| 2 | If so , Henry II had now by diplomacy achieved cheaply that which eight years earlier he had tried to do by the expensive means of war . |
| 3 | He hears that an anti-government demonstration is to take place in the Beirut suburb of Basta — a Shia district which 30 years later will be controlled by pro-Iranian militiamen — and he takes a taxi to investigate : |
| 4 | This place , which 30 years ago had the fastest-growing economy in democratic Europe , is now an economic failure . |
| 5 | Already , it seems , industry was coming to be concentrated on the north side of the Stour — Dedham lies opposite East Bergholt , a booming village — and that the gap was opening which forty-five years later was to be filled by the arrival of the Dutch bringing the techniques of the ‘ New Draperies ’ . |
| 6 | The compounds , known as gamma linolenic acid ( GLA ) derivatives , are produced by a British-Canadian company , Scotia Pharmaceuticals , which six years ago took over the former fish drying factory at Callanish on the west coast of Lewis as its principal production unit . |
| 7 | Here , they are taken by the ocean currents into the Gulf Stream , in which three years pass as they slowly drift towards Europe and make their homes in the rivers , lakes and pools , far distant from their place of birth . |
| 8 | The result is that the synagogue , which three years ago came perilously close to closure , is now busy every week . |
| 9 | Fishermen , who had their own local unions , defied national organisation until the emergence in 1919 of a sectional National Union of British Fishermen which three years later became a founder society of Bevin 's Transport and General Workers ' amalgamation . |
| 10 | With ‘ Come gentle swains ’ ( xxiv ) Cavendish has the distinction of being the first composer to introduce into a printed collection the English refrain which three years later concluded every composition in Morley 's collection dedicated to Elizabeth I , The Triumphs of Oriana ( 1601 ) : then sang the shepherds and nimphes of Diana Long live faire Oriana . |
| 11 | In general terms , each faculty offers an Ordinary or General degree , for which three years of study are required , and a number of degrees with honours for which four years of study are required . |
| 12 | The little girl to whom Wolfgang had impudently proposed marriage when they were children was now Queen of France ; and tales of her extravagant lifestyle at the glittering court of Versailles were stirring up murmurs of discontent among ordinary Frenchmen , setting alight a fuse which 11 years later was to blow not only France but much of Europe apart . |
| 13 | By this time , I was already leading a life which ten years earlier I would have assured you that I could never have tolerated . |
| 14 | We shall have to wait until each is announced , but the possibility of reopening new routes — a far cry from bus substitution — raises a new image for the sector which ten years ago had been written off by some people as a collection of unremunerative passenger railways . |
| 15 | From 1921 to 1923 she lived with her family in Cologne , helped run YMCA canteens , and learned the German which twenty years later was to prove so useful to her . |
| 16 | I imagine that Eliot 's early admiration , if that was not too strong a word , was due to Berdyaev 's excellent little book on the Russian Revolution ; a movement of which four years ' personal experience was enough to dispel early hopes . |
| 17 | The first will be designed to bring English and Welsh law into line with Scottish law , which four years ago , under the Debtors ( Scotland ) Act 1987 , abolished in Scotland the medieval barbarity of putting people in prison for civil debt . |
| 18 | In general terms , each faculty offers an Ordinary or General degree , for which three years of study are required , and a number of degrees with honours for which four years of study are required . |
| 19 | He had been local organiser for the National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers but in 1952 he led a breakaway which two years later merged with the ITGWU . |
| 20 | The Ford Motor Company , which two years ago chose the Motorola 88000 as the RISC processor for its electronic engine control modules in preference to Intel Corp ( UX No 338 ) , has , as predicted ( UX No 374 ) , switched its allegiance to Motorola/IBM Power PC architecture . |
| 21 | Funded by the Merseyside Development Corporation the NLBA is a sister organisation to the city 's Parliament Street Industrialists Association which two years ago celebrated a 73pc reduction in crime after they coordinated to defeat criminal activity . |
| 22 | The title ‘ Head of the Commonwealth ’ , against which from the government benches I registered a lone protest upon the second reading of the Royal Titles Bill in March 1953 , enshrines a paradox which thirty years ago two countries in particular conspired for their own purposes to ignore : India , in order to become a republic while forfeiting none of the privileges which allegiance had conferred , and Britain , in order to feed its delusion that the Empire was being transformed into something brighter and better still . |
| 23 | A combination of the Troubles , economic decline and net emigration means that the average property in Northern Ireland , which 20 years ago cost 63 per cent of one in London , now costs only 36 per cent . |
| 24 | Maintaining that sum of money ( which 20 years ago was the threshold of affluence ) is like trying to keep a snowball in your pocket by waiting until winter comes . |