Example sentences of "year since the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the years since the granting of the Royal Charter in 1948 , honorary graduates , starting with the first Chancellor , Lord Trent , have included politicians , musicians , men and women of letters , scientists , industrialists , lawyers , sporting personalities , all subsequent Chancellors and Vice-Chancellors and several long-serving senior employees of the University . |
| 2 | But what it did do was provide a unique workshop of the ideas that had been bubbling up in the years since the cracking of the ice in 1956 , and in a context which leapt over the boundaries of ‘ official ’ politics , whether mainstream , Marxist , anarchist , reformist , or Maoist . |
| 3 | Many a time , in the years since the explosion of nouvelle cuisine , I have wanted to write more of Dr de Pomiane and his unorthodox approach to classic French cookery . |
| 4 | It is generally the case , nevertheless , that in the 30 years since the signing of the Treaty , EC policies have only rarely been developed in a framework which explicitly evaluates the spatial impact of those policies . |
| 5 | It is now five years since the date of his official death sentence . |
| 6 | A date has now been set for a Circuit Court Hearing in June of 1993 , almost two years since the date of his dismissal . |
| 7 | It was almost a physical pain and for a moment he felt shocked because it had been many years since the agony of losing Gerda . |
| 8 | In the years since the fall of the First Empire in 1815 , the Bonaparte family had , by marriage , enlarged its connection with other Royal Houses in Europe , as a result of which Napoleon III could , in spite of his own unorthodox background , claim kinship with the majority of European rulers . |
| 9 | As Charlotte started after her , it crossed her mind that this throw-away remark was the kindest thing Ursula had found to say about the man she had been married to for more than twenty years since the day they had found him dead . |
| 10 | Here we are celebrating Easter almost 2000 years since the day of the Resurrection . |
| 11 | On 28 June this year , it will be 500 years since the birth of Henry VIII . |
| 12 | Although it is 40 years since the incident , I urge my right hon. Friend to give urgent consideration to the case because the suffering of Derek Bentley 's family continues day in and day out . |
| 13 | It was now seventeen years since the Countryside in 1970 Conference , when he had talked about ‘ the horrifying effects of pollution in all its cancerous forms ’ . |
| 14 | Deciding to become involved in politics , he first sought out Lord Plowden , one of the grandest figures of the Great and Good , who had spent the thirty years since the war as one of Whitehall 's most distinguished gofers . |
| 15 | We have already met this sorry postwar blues , with its nostalgic lament about the shallow artificiality of life in the concrete jungle , and its jaundiced appraisal of the overwhelming changes ‘ in these twenty years since the war ’ . |
| 16 | It seemed a million years since the morning . |
| 17 | The cases and controls were similar in age , years since the menopause , and weight ( table ) . |
| 18 | No significant differences were found in height , weight , disease activity , duration of disease , socioeconomic class , or years since the menopause . |
| 19 | All the findings of opinion polls and other surveys suggested that the overwhelming majority of ordinary citizens were convinced that the period of their nation 's history through which they had lived in the forty-odd years since the end of the war in 1945 , was a time of comfort and content . |
| 20 | Add to this the fact that many people no longer have the time to bake their own bread and cakes or grow their own vegetables and you will see how the situation has changed even in the years since the end of the war . |
| 21 | This Edouard knew : what he could not understand was that in the years since the end of the war Jean-Paul had made no attempt to restore the house . |
| 22 | Over the years since the end of the mandate , it is difficult to say which side , if either , has been the more intransigent . |
| 23 | The Duke of Edinburgh will review 40 warships from 16 nations and ships from the Merchant Navy off Anglesey on 26 May to mark 50 years since the end of the 4-year battle . |
| 24 | Within the Tower 's walls stood its keep , the imposing White Tower which for the two hundred and fifty years since the reign of Henry the Third had been regularly whitewashed . |
| 25 | It 's now a year since the release of Nelson Mandela and the unbanning of the ANC and other political organisations . |
| 26 | Even so , GATT estimates that services have accounted for 17–20 per cent of world trade every year since the mid-1960s : other estimates are that FDI in services has risen even faster . |
| 27 | Costs have been cut by £70m this year and by about £170m a year since the start of the recession in 1990 . |
| 28 | Although it is over a year since the end of the Gulf War , the Iraqi Ministry of Culture and Information is still trying to recover various ancient treasures dating back to the prehistoric and Islamic periods which disappeared from museums in the north and the south of the country . |
| 29 | Almost a year since the end of the Gulf War , more and more of the British men and women who took part are asking for help in straightening out their lives . |
| 30 | It is nearly a year since the meeting which led to the setting-up of the Network and six months since the first registration forms went out . |