Example sentences of "year [coord] [vb past] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patsy Gallacher went on to play for Celtic for 15 years and scored the winning goal in their famous cup-winning side of 1925 , when he beat the entire Dundee defence and somersaulted into the net with the ball between his feet . |
| 2 | Turning to the specific task on hand , he commended the gas turbine division as a whole for the great strides it had made over the last few years and stressed the important role that LTS had played in the division 's growth . |
| 3 | Alf , a well-known all-round sportsman , who still plays socially , was Secretary to the Henley Artisans for some 10 years and had the lucky chance as a man in domestic service , of learning golf on a small private course at Chalkhouse Green . |
| 4 | The visit of President Hosni Mubarak to the Syrian capital , Damascus , for talks with President Hafez al Assad on May 2-3 , was the first by an Egyptian leader for 13 years and marked the full normalization of relations between the two countries , broken off in November 1977 at the start of Egypt 's peace initiative with Israel . |
| 5 | Clinton , who the opinion polls consistently suggested enjoyed a significant lead , continued his relentless attack on the economic record of the Bush-Reagan years and repeated the underlying message of his campaign that it was time for change . |
| 6 | This lasted on and off , for a hundred years and gave the Korean church over 10,000 martyrs . |
| 7 | An old friend of President George Bush , Tower was a senator for Texas for 24 years and chaired the Armed Services Committee from 1981 to 1985 , but suffered humiliation in 1989 when the Senate rejected his nomination as Defence Secretary [ see pp. 36515-16 ] . |
| 8 | If the merger is then approved by Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley , the Mid Essex Community Health Trust will be dissolved on March 31 next year and replaced the following day by a new trust also embracing the mental health services . |
| 9 | The shadow Chancellor , Gordon Brown , warned that inflation was set to rise again later this year and identified the central problem as ‘ the low level of activity in the economy ’ . |
| 10 | When Historic Flying Ltd of Audley Eng , fresh from the completion of David Tallichet 's machine RW382 , set the date of completing TE566 within on year and targeted the premier Duxford weekend Classic Fighter show of July 1992 , it was going to be a hard one . |