Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] year [noun prp] ['s] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ The Crosby 10 was set up to help local charities and when we were taking suggestions for this year Vicki 's name was mentioned . |
| 2 | After seventy-two years Berlin 's Galerie Nierendorf is closing . |
| 3 | As Neil says ‘ after 25 years Martin 's enthusiasm and enjoyment of his work is undimmed and he well deserves the respect and applause of his colleagues . ’ |
| 4 | Indeed , since 1986 unit labour costs have risen more slowly in France than Germany , and by the end of this year France 's rate of consumer-price inflation could be lower than Germany 's . |
| 5 | IN THE SUMMER of this year Hindley 's wife Frances had her first , and last , baby . |
| 6 | And in fact , of recent years Dickens 's Mr Podsnap has walked again , cherishing insularity as a patriotic duty . |
| 7 | What is undoubtedly clear is that during these years Henry 's power was still steadily advancing , though most modern writers tend to create the false impression of a king entirely preoccupied with the awkward domestic problem of the quarrel with Thomas Becket . |
| 8 | For many years Tukaram 's enemy Rameshwar had incited the people against Tukaram and been instrumental in having Tukaram 's poems thrown into a river . |
| 9 | For many years WACC 's communication education work has focused on curriculum development , professional education , a training assistance programme , a programme of animateurs and media literacy . |
| 10 | In three years VPI 's value had risen from £9.55 million to £121 million . |
| 11 | The Berry-Hill Gallery , in recent years Vicente 's New York dealer , has arranged a ninetieth birthday celebration for Vicente this month in the form of a retrospective spanning five decades of his work and coming right up to and into the Nineties . |
| 12 | Created by the Soka Gakkai lay Buddhist movement in 1964 , in recent years Komeito 's level of support had fallen in the aftermath of a series of financial scandals involving the LDP . |
| 13 | Certainly in recent years Pound 's interest in mystery-cults has been more than antiquarian ; in ‘ was Erigena ours ? ’ he asks whether the philosopher Scotus Erigena was one of the Eleusinian brotherhood , and ‘ ours ’ can be given full weight — Noel Stock goes so far as to claim ( op. cit. p.22 ) that some of the obscurity of these later Cantos is deliberate and arcane — ‘ he writes about them as an initiate in words that are both ‘ published and not published ’ … ’ . |
| 14 | Players such as Lewis , Fraser , Malcolm , Stewart , Atherton , Hick , Turnell , Lawrence and Ramprakash were introduced , and within 2½ years England 's Test records reads : P24 W8 D9 L7 , a marked improvement despite a disastrous 0–3 defeat in Australia in 1990–91 . |
| 15 | There is no doubt that in earlier years Clarkson 's relations with some of the Claphamites had occasionally been strained . |
| 16 | For 28 years Hartlepool 's MP was the retiring Ted Leadbitter , whose media relations were often taciturn , sometimes abrasive and occasionally bloody rude . |