Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [adj] year [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had reached the age when friends and companions were beginning to die around him , and in the spring of this year he composed memorial addresses for two of them : William Collin Brooks , who ten years before had encouraged Valerie Fletcher to apply for the post of Eliot 's secretary , and Father Eric Cheetham , who had " taken in " Eliot after the separation from Vivien . |
| 2 | And when we doubled the company 's turnover in one year I decided to investigate his methods . ’ |
| 3 | Having been confined to a wheelchair for 18 years I had been in similar situations to this . |
| 4 | I was subsequently paid to fly by the RAF ; after a lapse of 33 years I returned to the skies five years ago , when I could finally afford a share in a Cherokee which I now fly regularly from Ludham . |
| 5 | Over a period of many years I had a succession of research students working On the Eocene strata of the Isle of Wight , off the south coast of England . |
| 6 | Over a period of fifteen years he noted that not only were the ridge and furrow patterns of each individual 's prints unique , but that they never changed . |
| 7 | Barnard inherited a large fortune from his father : over a period of fifty years he devoted himself to the formation of a collection of prints , drawings , and paintings , becoming one of the foremost connoisseurs of his day . |
| 8 | The government announced on Nov. 26 that over a period of three years it intended to cut 122,000 government jobs — approximately one fifth of state employees — at an estimated saving to the state of the equivalent of US$1,500 million . |
| 9 | In a period of ten years he recorded at least thirty proven cases of clairvoyance between himself , or his wife , and a horse . |
| 10 | According to bogus sexologist Dr John R Brinkley , goat glands held the secret to combating male impotence and over a period of twenty years he amassed a fortune of more than $12 million administering them to 16,000 men worried about their sexual inadequacies . |
| 11 | Your lust for her knew no bounds and when this loyal woman spurned you for her husband of twenty years you wreaked a terrible revenge ! ’ |
| 12 | But in the last quarter of last year we ran into an economic cliff , ’ says Alastair Balfour , of Scotland 's leading business publication , Scottish Business Insider . |
| 13 | At the beginning of last year it agreed in principle a 15-year deal covering fuel supplies and reprocessing at a cost of £2.7 billion , but the contracts have not yet been signed . |
| 14 | The number of confirmed cases of BSE until November of this year totalled 15,698 , whereas for the whole of last year they amounted only — I use the word ’ only ’ relatively — to 14,322 . |
| 15 | The former Soviet international has established herself as the world 's leading female middle distance runner in recent years she won the 1500 metres and 3,000 metres at the inaugural World Championships in Rome in 1987 and finished third and first respectively in the same events at the Seoul Olympics a year later . |
| 16 | Every month for four years they met in Melbourne to stuff the magazines into envelopes for Australian subscribers . |
| 17 | Way back at the start of this year I planned into the workshop schedule an exhibition piece . |
| 18 | After suffering bulimia for 15 years she sought help because her children were beginning to comment on her abnormal eating habits . |
| 19 | Having admired his free verse for some years I had recently ploughed through his somewhat monumental work , the first two volumes of ‘ Abraham Lincoln — The Prairie Years ’ and enjoyed it . |
| 20 | He had the roads to Ruthyn and Denbigh under his eye from this eyrie , and Mold was not too far for a raid if the weather and the omens were good ; but since his active autumn of last year he had contented himself with holding and consolidating , and swooped down in the occasional raid along the border only to keep his hand in for greater things if the season should indicate the necessity . |
| 21 | Although she had pronounced likes and dislikes for the various members of her class she was perhaps the best teacher in the school , and at the end of four years she had hardly any failures in the final examinations . |
| 22 | So then at the end of that year he offered me a summer job , a kind of an apprentice job and that was it . |
| 23 | At the end of that year he left Eton finally , to study with private tutors before taking entrance examinations for Balliol College , Oxford . |
| 24 | At the end of two years she applied for jobs with various banks and when I met her she had just been accepted as a trainee accounting technician . |
| 25 | At the end of last year they had $13 billion and $9 billion of net assets respectively , according to Lipper Analytical Services . |
| 26 | Towards the end of last year we finished a review of all our management costs and our structure costs and , as a consequence , have saved a quarter of a million pounds in our administration . |
| 27 | As the hon. Lady will know , when we resumed diplomatic relations with Syria at the end of last year we discussed that type of question with them and received reassurances which were sufficient to enable us to resume diplomatic relations . |
| 28 | Each year for six years he gathered the seed and planted each grain again . |
| 29 | Every year for thirty-four years it came back , earning itself the name of súlukongur — ‘ king of the gannets ’ — till finally on 11th May 1894 , it was shot . |
| 30 | When Sir Geoffrey Howe last summer tried insisting that she name a date for next year she refused and later sacked him from the Foreign Office . |