Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] [verb] [adv] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I have lots of letters which I discovered about five years ago , which I thought were probably letters that my father had written it , Adam , because his name and my grandfather 's name were exactly the same . |
| 2 | The Stones resigned from the Football League , which they joined just three years ago , unable to fulfil their fixtures . |
| 3 | She cooked the turkey and booted the uncles ' wives out of her way when they came cluttering into the kitchen trying to help , i.e. interfere , which they did unfailingly each year . |
| 4 | A FORMER head of a council children 's home was jailed for four years yesterday for indecency against young boys in his care which he committed almost 15 years ago . |
| 5 | Mr McLoone is the former general manager of the University Co-op bookshop , which he left earlier this year amid much controversy and speculation . |
| 6 | Later he spent an hour at the Scottish studies department , which he opened nearly 40 years ago , where he saw a display of Scottish artefacts and heard a rendition of Gaelic songs . |
| 7 | This is becoming about as routine as Cal Peete leading driving accuracy , which he did again this year , hitting 753 out of 900 . |
| 8 | Despite hopes that Sun would think up something warm and friendly to call them , the things have been dubbed Sparcstation 10s — small improvement over the Sparcstation 3s they might have been — in recognition of Sun 's tenth birthday , which it celebrated earlier this year . |
| 9 | The Scottish Office ex-tended the powers of the institution to award degrees , which it won only last year , so that it will be able to run Masters degree courses from next month . |
| 10 | Unless it can effect a remarkable recovery , the factory may well disappear back into the bleak and sodden marshes of Essex from which it emerged nearly 60 years ago . |
| 11 | What we find over 15 years after the 1974–75 recession was much less turnover in the factory work force in the context of surrounding unemployment . |
| 12 | But Bill says no amount of money can truly compensate for what he describes as three years of pain . |