Example sentences of "years [adv] [art] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ten years later a state of emergency is still in force , renewed in May 1991 for a further three years , and political detainees held incommunicado under emergency provisions continue to be denied basic protection against torture . |
| 2 | The Tory Reaction is sometimes seen as the beginnings of the attempt to revive royal absolutism in England , and certainly in the years following the defeat of Exclusion supporters of the Crown encouraged an exalted view of monarchy . |
| 3 | For John Dunlop , the successful trainer , it was a second win in the juvenile event in three years following the victory of Ashayer in 1987 . |
| 4 | An exhibition of Max Ernst 's most important period , covering his work as a Dada artist in Cologne after 1912 and in Paris in the years following the end of World War I , opens at the Museum of Modern Art , New York , in the middle of this month ( 14 March-2 May ) . |
| 5 | Certainly as far as we 're concerned at Traidcraft , when we started eight years ago a packet of coffee was two pound twenty five . |
| 6 | Twenty five years ago a band of motoring enthusiasts who wanted more than rallying or racing teamed up to start the All Wheel Drive Club … |
| 7 | About fifty years ago the price of sugar increased , and so the farmers changed from turnips as a fodder crop to sugarbeet . |
| 8 | Five years ago the prospect of music biz power-brokers scraping over the rights to the Reading Festival would have been laughable , but then five years ago Reading was laughable , light years removed from the vital , fun , rather homely popstravaganza it is today . |
| 9 | So that the wearing of mourning , fifty years earlier a sign of virtue , had now in Mrs Maugham 's generation become a habit to be scorned and condemned ; it was ostentatious and therefore it was insincere . |
| 10 | Forty years earlier the promise of town planning was that it could address the urban housing problems of the day , but the principles of environmental regulations were now seen to relate to a quite different set of questions : the problems of regional economic development . |
| 11 | So if I was off for two or three years then the rate of inflation was high , then it would be ten per cent each those years |