Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [verb] [verb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | At St Martin 's School of Art , where they 'd met three years previously , they had already decided to make themselves the subject of their art . |
| 2 | The secret policeman was back in uniform , a plain copper on the beat , back where he had started fifteen years before . |
| 3 | The greatest challenge to the continuing applicability of public service principles to broadcasting structure and content was not the arrival of TV itself , which slid comfortably into the BBC system in 1946 , where it had started 10 years earlier , but the Churchill government 's decision to introduce a second TV network in 1955 . |
| 4 | Are you optimistic that erm people will perceive the services under this budget as better than they 've had last year , or worse ? |
| 5 | By the time of Elizabeth 's death in 1603 Englishmen did not rule any more land outside the British Isles than they had done 45 years earlier but their seafaring position had been transformed . |
| 6 | By 1985 sales of tape cassettes were outnumbering disc sales , although it had taken 40 years for the advocates of magnetic recording to see this come about . |
| 7 | Although he has completed five years , he will continue for another couple of years until the parish is ready to be handed over to the local clergy . |
| 8 | It was such an odd feeling , as if I 'd lost twenty years somewhere . |
| 9 | If she 'd waited another year she would have garnered twice the price , as the yuppie age was dawning , but unfortunately for herself and her family , Jane had no financial sense whatsoever , except , thanks perhaps to her Scottish ancestry , she always spent as little as possible . |
| 10 | I do not make any award for the sums claimed from disposable income for her employment during the said , the alleged year off , since I 'm not satisfied she would have had a year off , or would have had any disposable income even if she had taken that year . |
| 11 | If you follow form this year 's national hunt festival should be a feast for the Nicholson team … he 's enjoying his best ever season … a record 80 winners have won over half a million pounds worth in prize money … stable jockey Richard Dunwoody is leading the chase for the championship … and the secret of all this success |
| 12 | ‘ My friend , if you 'd spent two years burning up with sulphur injections , or shaking from haloperidol , you too might develop certain uncanny abilities . |
| 13 | So if you have worked 30 years for a company that has 1/60th pension scheme , you will receive 30/60ths of your final pay — in other words , half . |
| 14 | If you want to ski this year without breaking the bank , there are plenty of ways you can trim costs without slumming it . |
| 15 | Put more starkly , with the current caseload and an intake of 50,000 new applications this year , even if we managed to exceed last year 's output we would still have at least two years work in hand . ’ |
| 16 | If we had tried ten years ago to do what we are doing now , we would be dead . ’ |
| 17 | It took the form of granting women — provided they had attained thirty years of age , the right to vote in a parliamentary election ; also all men of twenty-one years of age . |
| 18 | CRUMLIN Road jail escaper Joe Doherty should have had the opportunity to make representations to the Secretary of State before a decision was taken to delay a review of his sentence until he had served 10 years in Northern Ireland , a court has heard . |
| 19 | If it had happened two years earlier , I could n't have coped . |
| 20 | It is remarkable that the talks have got so far , even if it has taken six years to get within touching distance of a deal . |
| 21 | We must approach our prophet as if he had lived five years ago . |
| 22 | If whatever happened to Summerchild that year had n't happened — if he had n't been found lying with the garbage in Spring Gardens — if Millie had n't stopped playing in the orchestra — if I 'd gone on seeing her week by week — grown up with her — become easy with her — married her — then Timmy would still have a mother at home . |
| 23 | An employee will not be eligible for a redundancy payment unless he has had two years ' continuous employment . |
| 24 | Mrs Kavanagh 's claim can not be , because I 've spent 25 years editing , arranging and completing his work . |
| 25 | P&O Cruises Ltd — providing you have had three years service with the Group , you and eligible members of your immediate family may travel on cruise ships at special concessionary rates . |
| 26 | we 've already written , we 've already written last week to the Scottish office , we 've written to our member of parliament and we 've asked him to see if we can get a delay on the date because we 've taken three years to try and get planning consent . |
| 27 | But I did it through the love , fo , that I had for the couple , and that because they had waited sixteen year before they eventually found out they could n't have children ! |
| 28 | It 's tremendous really , it 's an unbelievable relief for me , it would have taken me months to get used to a new cue , that 's the only cue I 've ever had er since I started playing eight years ago . |
| 29 | Whilst I have said 2 years as the expected time to be collecting Community Charge I think this should be qualified with 2 years plus , with income being received for some considerable time thereafter especially through Sheriff Officers . |
| 30 | Elizabeth agreed to do our programme after we 'd spent five years gently hammering at her representatives — and of course we were n't the only people after her , the whole world was beating at her door . |