Example sentences of "year [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here again , we are taken back to the very beginning of the town , to the years just after the Norman Conquest — for King 's Lynn is not really old by English standards . |
| 2 | This is , of course , symptomatic of the rapid move over the past few years away from a consensus-based approach to education policy making towards one based on central autonomy . |
| 3 | Today 's bright and open classrooms with their informal furniture seem light years away from the first school in which I taught . |
| 4 | Next up , and light years away from the real world , PLANET GONG have survived on an even more meagre diet of dodgy rock ideology and space cadet wizardry , commanded by the absurd Ronald McDonald persona of Daevid Allen — long time centrifugal force in the Land Of Gong . |
| 5 | There was one door : set into one of the metal walls , it had an electronic lock that , while not as sophisticated as the transmat , was certainly hundreds of years away from the medieval technology of Arcadia . |
| 6 | ‘ I think it may have more to do with my age — but I do feel I have got four or five years more at the top level in the game and I would love to perform at the top level of the Premier League . |
| 7 | THE GEMS dealer turned fraudster , Darius Guppy , the best man to the Princess of Wales 's brother , Earl Spencer , was jailed for five years yesterday over a bogus robbery and false insurance claim . |
| 8 | THE father of a child genius was jailed for five years yesterday after a bungled insurance fraud . |
| 9 | This sombre event , which was reported in the London Times , may have stimulated the construction a few years later of a strange mausoleum in Paisley . |
| 10 | Avedon used the same mixture of innocence and repellent physicality in a notorious portrait two years later of the young actress Nastassia Kinski posing naked with a python . |
| 11 | De Gaulle 's known views — fashioned by his interpretation of the collapse of France in 1940 and his resentment over the refusal of Britain and the United States to treat him as an equal in prosecuting the war effort , on the failings of the Fourth Republic , on reforming NATO , on the need for France to acquire greater international prestige , along with his ambition to affect a lasting reconciliation between France and West Germany ( ideally on French terms ) — all influenced his decision to terminate the Maudling Committee negotiations , and all were still influential in his rejection a few years later of the British application to enter the EEC . |
| 12 | At the age of 9 , he was sent to the London Institution where he excelled himself so much that when the school 's Margate branch was opened in 1875 , the headmaster , Dr. Elliott , appointed him one of the first pupil-teachers , promoting him three years later to a junior teachership . |
| 13 | When we moved some six years later to a small town again , in Berkshire , I found I was more competent in the three Rs than any other school child of my own age . |
| 14 | She continued to have the pain and was referred back four years later to a different surgeon who did a normal barium meal and barium enema . |
| 15 | He employed for instance three four-part groups differentiated by pitch ( high , medium , and low ) and probably by constitution ( soli , tutti ) , by instrumental support or substitution , and positioning in the church — to produce those exciting contrasts which led Michael Praetorius thirty years later into the etymological error of deriving the term ‘ concerto ’ from the Latin concertare , to contend . |
| 16 | The couple , who were introduced to each other by one of Mr Jefferson 's relatives in 1940 , were married two years later at the Holy Trinity Church in Darlington . |
| 17 | The final chapter in the story of imprisonment for debt came eight years later with the simultaneous passing in 1869 of the Debtors Act ( 32 & 33 Victoria cap 62 ) and the Bankruptcy Act ( 32 & 33 Victoria cap 71 ) . |
| 18 | It merged six years later with the Scottish Umpire to form Scottish Sport , which appeared twice weekly at 1d. and claimed a circulation of 43,000 . |
| 19 | The memorial appeared 50 years later through the hard work of a local newspaper reporter who thought something ought to be done . |
| 20 | Starting work in the drawing office of the Bristol Aeroplane Company on his 21st birthday in 1925 , the Author retired 44 years later as the Managing Director of the British Aircraft Corporation at Filton . |
| 21 | Only one of them , the Labyrinth at Knossos , was restored and repaired so that it could continue to use after 1470 , and it was more or less completely abandoned some ninety years later after a major fire . |
| 22 | Now they are exchanging information right away , and not waiting till it is published two years later in a scientific journal . ’ |
| 23 | The lyrics of ‘ That Would n't Be You ’ resurfaced four years later in a musical version of the Jack Rosenthal television play Bar Mitzvah Boy , although they were slightly revised , as indicated by the new title , ‘ You Would n't Be You ’ . |
| 24 | A few years later in the ice-packed snow outside Moscovy , but nothing was as chilling as that short , desperate run in Paris . ] |
| 25 | Any interpretation should be able to explain why the decline came fifteen years later in the Southern Band than in the Northern Band . |
| 26 | At27/129 , we hear of ‘ the earthquake in Messina ’ ( 28 December 1908 ) , but this is merely incidental to the vast blague perpetrated by Romains , Vildrac , and others in Paris — to be nostalgically remembered years later in the Pisan Canto 80 ( see Richard Sieburth in Paideuma 2 , p.280 ) . |
| 27 | A few years later in the post-war depression they kept their spirits up by flocking to see the stage shows Carousel and Annie Get Your Gun . |
| 28 | A similar suggestion was made a few years later by the French scientist the Marquis de Laplace , apparently independently of Michell . |
| 29 | At such times Captain Moreau was inclined to take heat out of the discussion by recounting jovial anecdotes illustrating the imbecility of officers on the staff of the Czarina Catherine , under whom he had served years before as a young man . |
| 30 | What she did was to go through her cupboards , where she discovered a dress which had once belonged to Clara 's cousin , and which had been enclosed years before in a charitable parcel of hands-on . |