Example sentences of "year [adv] [art] [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four years later a wide-ranging set of reforms , named after the two commissioners , William Colebrooke and Charles Hay Cameron , was implemented . |
| 2 | Once the new house had been built is was often blocked in with a single course of concrete blocks and curiously enough today thirty five years later the modern method of building houses is to construct them all of wood and then surround them with a single course of concrete blocks . |
| 3 | Michael Shanks , author of the powerful Stagnant Society of 1961 , bitterly criticized fifteen years later the sterile failure of the planning imperative . |
| 4 | Two years later the Anglican Dean of Westminster , Arthur Stanley , gave a Discourse on what the Catacombs of Rome indicated about early Christian beliefs . |
| 5 | He showed that five years later the dental health of children in Kilmarnock had deteriorated . |
| 6 | Some hundred years later the great revival of regional specialities is initiated by a band of patriotic French men of letters fearful that the post-1918 influx of tourists demanding international palace hotel food ( it is , alas , le classique which has opened the door to this dreariest of all styles of cooking ) wherever they go will end in the annihilation of the typical specialities of the provinces of France . |
| 7 | It was a wonderful experience for a small boy and seventy years later the lovely smell of the warm bakehouse is well remembered . |
| 8 | This latter is a longitudinal survey over a period of two and a half years following a structured sample of some 4,000 persons who registered as unemployed in May 1980 . |
| 9 | The recent excesses of the financial world inevitably invite comparisons with the 1930s , when share prices fell by two-thirds in the five years following the Great Crash of 1929 . |
| 10 | Chile 's National Congress , suspended for 16@1/2 years following the military coup of September 1973 [ see p. 26151-52 ] , met on March 20 in a new parliament building in Valparaiso , 119 km from the capital Santiago . |
| 11 | BETWEEN twenty and thirty million years ago a new sort of mammal evolved that had an unusually long nose . |
| 12 | Ten years ago a small group of woodworkers formed a co-operative , modelled on a halibut fishery in Alaska . |
| 13 | Several years ago a small group of people sat down to consider this problem and , after a great deal of discussion and argument , came up with a six-point-plan for new legislation with the special needs of Wales in mind ( although they are also relevant to other countries inside and outside the UK ) . |
| 14 | It may not be , and Hakel and Reimer might have taken the opportunity to sow more seeds of doubt , or at least put the certified cause of death in an historical perspective : 100 years ago a recorded cause of death from heart disease ( except for congenital malformations and valve defects ) was barely known , yet ischaemic heart disease must surely have existed . |
| 15 | Seven years ago a distinguished list of signatories wrote in your columns that the existing law clearly no longer represented either Christian or liberal opinion in this country , and that its continued enforcement would do more harm than good to the community as a whole . |
| 16 | and the Warner Brothers Bugs Bunny and the popcorn , you go and get your popcorn dish out of thing , show Alex how much popcorn we bought , I mean you go up there and it 's not like it used to be years ago a little bale of popcorn they sell them in huge great big cartons up there |
| 17 | SOME years ago an enterprising manufacturer of home computer ‘ add-ons ’ produced a low cost robot arm that used standard model radio control servos to produce the motive power . |
| 18 | But , in order to buy rather than rent their own homes , Britain 's nine million home buyers now have to borrow an average of £37,000 — more than twice the average income — whereas 10 years ago the average loan of £11,800 worked out at 1.7 times income . |
| 19 | Some years ago the technical director of Hyatt International Hotels was reported as saying that ‘ if the air conditioning works , the telephone system works and the lift installation works , there is a good chance that the hotel works ’ . |
| 20 | Mr Paice said : ‘ I always remember from when I was first elected six years ago the notorious reputation of the A11 from Chippenham to the Kennett crossroads had as an accident blackspot . ’ |
| 21 | Two years ago the Chartered Institute of Building embarked on a five-year Strategic Plan to develop a more influential role in the building industry in both the United Kingdom and overseas . |
| 22 | A year ago a working party of the English Bar Council produced a report on efficient disposal of business in the Crown Court . |