Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The callous crook got five years after milking two families of everything they owned to pay for his luxury life in a country mansion . |
| 2 | The position would have been very different in the case of a payment made some years before which was sought to be recovered because a court in another case had ruled that the regulation under which the demand had been made had all along been ultra vires . |
| 3 | The new type of molecular scissors , called a ‘ minizyme ’ , is a refinement of the ‘ gene shears ’ technique announced three years ago by two scientists at another CSIRO laboratory in Canberra . |
| 4 | Elsa and Jim met four years ' ago . |
| 5 | The only disturbance to the peace of this natural sanctuary occurred 120 years ago when a spectacular railway was laid at a high level across the head of the valley ; this apart , Dentdale today is very much as it was three centuries ago , happily free from modern developments and well content to remain so . |
| 6 | Most of us , though , have learnt to beware the double handshake : hand clasped and hand on arm , all at once , It was a beguiling technique perfected 50 years ago by Adolf Hitler when he gained the chancellorship of Germany . |
| 7 | The number of cattle-stealing cases doubled , reaching 2,020 in 1938 , five times the level reported ten years earlier . |
| 8 | Though the technique employed in The Dear Deceit represents a laying-bare of traditional narrative devices without offering an alternative approach , it sets the stage for the more radical break with the conventions of realism which Brooke-Rose 's fiction demonstrated four years later . |
| 9 | The court sentenced Colonel Rolando Cabezas of the Republican Guard police to 15 years for murder , while Lieutenant Javier Marquina got seven years . |
| 10 | We can compare this with a similar attempt made eight years later by Stubbs ( 1983 ) , who distinguishes four main areas of language which teachers should know about if they are to be able to make informed decisions about language problems at school : |
| 11 | The left side is a highly sophisticated computer which , under deep hypnosis , would give you the data registered five years ago recording the number , make and colour of the car which was standing outside your home at the time . |
| 12 | ALI BOUREQUAT AND HIS TWO BROTHERS ENDURED 19 YEARS IN MOROCCAN PRISONS WITHOUT CHARGE OR TRIAL . |
| 13 | Unfortunately the statement of Balassa made some years ago still remains true , " there exists no wholly satisfactory way of measuring the effect of a customs union or free trade area on trade flows . |
| 14 | Marshall , 34 , who announced his retirement from international cricket after the World Cup , has signed a new contract with the county and will fill a gap created two years ago when Paul Terry stepped down as No 2 to Mark Nicholas . |
| 15 | The practice stopped many years ago but in many farm kitchens in the county , the hooks can still be seen . |
| 16 | The vote came five years after the synod called for draft legislation to introduce women priests . |
| 17 | As the critic noted eight years earlier , Ken , like the others , grew a little more grey , a little more lined . |
| 18 | Stewart presents a revealing citation analysis of the plate tectonic paradigm , in which he shows that the peak of citations to Wegener 's paper occurred sixty years after its publication , and the peak of citations to du Toit 's later defence of Wegener came thirty-two years after its publication , in the same year as the Wegener peak . |
| 19 | It is also found at the base of the neo-classical economic theory of capitalism , with its basic tenet of man as a maximizing individual with limitless needs and desires — a notion Sahlins deconstructed many years ago ( 1974 ) , but one that still persists in Western economic and political thought , and which underlies much of the anthropology of conflict . |
| 20 | The same must also be said of the Pastorale d'été and the Prélude , arioso et fugue , a transcription dating from 1936 of a piano piece composed four years earlier . |
| 21 | PRINCE Edward celebrated 25 years of the International Boat Show when he officially opens the event in Southampton . |
| 22 | LASMO 's second longest-serving employee celebrated 15 years with the company at an awards lunch just before Christmas . |
| 23 | Nerina 's card showed two years of B pluses and A minuses in communication studies and sociology , and then a term of Cs and Ds , and then back up to straight As . |
| 24 | He had lived in Stepney for most of his life and had come to South London to work for Joe Maitland when the warehouse opened two years ago . |
| 25 | After an HND in commercial horticulture at Chelmsford , Ric spent two years with the Great Gardens of England production nursery at Blenheim Palace , four years as grounds supervisor at an agriculture college in Brecon , and seven years running his own market garden . |
| 26 | Richard spent two years in Beverly Hills and had to leave when his work permit expired . |
| 27 | The aircraft spent many years at Kaman helicopters as a wind making machine until it was recovered by the Marine Corps Museum in 1971 . |
| 28 | His research began several years ago with the design of an instrument for exerting pressure on the brains of anaesthetised experimental animals , and mimicking human brain damage during injury or stroke . |
| 29 | A native of Maesteg , Mr Loveluck spent 15 years as a civil servant at the Welsh |
| 30 | Susanna spent five years developing and writing this book . |