Example sentences of "[art] [num] year [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first part of the study examines the impact of financial arrangements made at the time of the divorce on the people directly concerned for the three years following the divorce . |
| 2 | This set is a comprehensive history of Zeppelin , the ten years when the dinosaur ruled the Earth . |
| 3 | This set is a comprehensive history of Zeppelin , the ten years when the dinosaur ruled the Earth . |
| 4 | It is , however , now possible , historiographically , to divide the twenty-five years following the Council into two distinctly different eras — that of Paul VI and that of John Paul II . |
| 5 | His name also appeared on over 100 papers during the five years when the fusion experiments were reportedly in process . |
| 6 | On the other hand , it would be incorrect to suppose that the first influx of nuclear workers in Thurso did not produce the twofold or greater increase noted in rural new towns : the only two cases at ages 0–14 in the period 1951–67 occurred in the five years following the influx in 1958 ( expected 0.41 ; not significant ) . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , the twenty years following the Act were ones of such rapid development in policy in the child care field that by 1968 the Seebohm Report recommended the absorption of the child care service by unified social services departments and the merging of specialist child work into generic social work . |
| 8 | But US confidence in dealing with Russia was bolstered soon afterwards by the use of the atomic bomb to defeat Japan , and in the two years following a breakdown in East-West relations occurred which , with the decline of Britain to secondary status , left Europe divided between American and Soviet spheres of influence . |
| 9 | In the two years following the return to civilian rule the activity of a considerable number of the news media became increasingly partisan . |
| 10 | Over a thousand years ago the Phoenix King Morvael introduced a system of training large bodies of troops to be called up from the populace . |
| 11 | Fossilized orang-utan teeth — most of what zoologists know of ape evolution comes from the study of fossil teeth — reveal that half a million years ago the orang 's ancestors were far bigger and probably twice as heavy as the modern animal . |
| 12 | A hundred years ago an architect took pride in designing every ghastly detail . |
| 13 | For about a hundred years following the publication of Lamarck 's book , the common dog-whelk was known as Purpura lapillus ( L. ) -the brackets to show that Linnaeus had described his type under a different generic name . |