Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [adv] [adv] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This is a battle we fought and won eight years ago when hospitals in Northern Ireland agreed to stop the sale of cigarettes . |
| 2 | Surprising omissions from Brook 's list are Housing and Local Government , Health , and Education — all three ministries even then conduits for large amounts of public spending . |
| 3 | Things were very different 40 years ago when 50pc of housing stock was rented from private landlords . |
| 4 | The journey is a repeat of an epic voyage 60 years ago when nuns from the Carmel Convent in Darlington travelled to found the first Carmelite convent in Johannesburg . |
| 5 | He was arrested with his wife Vera in 1981 and , after a grossly unfair trial in a ‘ traditional court ’ , where normal rules of evidence did not apply and without defence lawyers , both were sentenced to death two years later on charges of treason . |
| 6 | He was finally released from prison two years later on payment of a £500 fine to Edward . |
| 7 | The department was set up four years ago when responsibility for NMS property passed to the Museums ' Trustees . |
| 8 | John McBride , who is partially deaf , was attacked by two youths when only yards from his home in Arden , Glasgow . |