Example sentences of "[det] [adj] years [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the trends shown by my research continue and the numbers of night visits double again within another eight years then a reorganisation of this sort will become essential . |
| 2 | Some fifty years ago the engineers came up with devices that could record the electrical activity of living brains and living nerve cells . |
| 3 | Another three years later the passion had cooled somewhat but genuine affection remained . |
| 4 | After the collapse of the Dwarf empire almost three and a half thousand years ago the Dwarf stronghold of Karak Eight Peaks lay in ruins . |
| 5 | Some sixty years ago a copy of Lady Dilke 's French Illustrated Books , extended to fifty-eight volumes , with nearly 10,000 additional illustrations , was offered for sale at £2,000 . |
| 6 | For another ten years not a soul had dared enter it , until the snake-hunters steeled themselves to descend in pursuit of a python which had consumed a child in the dry season of 1969 . |
| 7 | By 1886 , two in three adult males — almost 4.5 million people — had the vote in England and Wales , whereas some 50 years earlier the electorate stood at little more than 650 000 . |
| 8 | The small railway outpost had the Indian sign on it when closure came entirely on I January 1917 in the midst of World War I. However , some five years later the GWR had a change of heart and decided to reopen the station to goods traffic on 18 September 1922 . |
| 9 | Some twenty years later the District Judge at Kagalla found similar attitudes : ‘ It is a common occurrence for persons to see an animal being driven away under very suspicious circumstances , and yet , although perhaps living within a stone 's throw of the owner , they take no trouble to go and tell him what they have seen , and probably say nothing about it until they meet him looking for his stolen animal , three or four days afterward ; of course then the recovery is hopeless ! ’ |
| 10 | Copper was brought by canal barge and inclined planes to the quay until , in the nineteenth century , the opening of the railway line to Plymouth affected its trade badly , and some 40 years later the mines themselves were exhausted . |
| 11 | Some thirty years ago an operation was introduced to control the spread of epilepsy from an affected cerebral hemisphere to the other , unaffected one . |
| 12 | Some thirty years ago the Henniker-Heaton report on Day Release made several pertinent observations about vocational training and education . |
| 13 | While visiting Yugoslavia in those more happy days of some two years ago a member of the Swanage Railway noted the existence of a similar machine and reckoned that conversion would not be too difficult . |
| 14 | Accommodation was plentiful at Cecilia Darne 's house where all those years ago a bomb had blown the windows out . |
| 15 | In those long years when the war had taken priority , Dr Tariq had rethought the detail of the programme . |