Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [adj] year " 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 | ‘ Producers were prepared to pay good money for quality stock and the number of sheep sold this year was higher than in 1990 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The Princess Royal has around 10 hats made each year which means she must have at least 260 to choose from by now . |
| 5 | Most of the 2.2 billion pet-food cans sold each year are made from steel coated with tin . |
| 6 | Three Acts passed that year put into implicit political terms the principle underlying the mid-sixties statements of ‘ public ’ androgyny : ‘ Excessively polarised personality types thrive in a culture that demands the repression of certain natural tendencies while people are developing the so-called ‘ masculine ’ and so-called ‘ feminine ’ traits which society considers to be appropriate for each sex . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Elsa and Jim met four years ' ago . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Within two decades the number of cases reported each year has more than doubled to at least 3,000 . |
| 12 | The number of cattle-stealing cases doubled , reaching 2,020 in 1938 , five times the level reported ten years earlier . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | For example , although France 's trade deficit with Germany narrowed last year , its trade balance with America moved from surplus into deficit . |
| 15 | Of the 400 state-owned firms which the Treuhand sold last year , netting DM2.5 billion , almost all went to western Germans . |
| 16 | The court sentenced Colonel Rolando Cabezas of the Republican Guard police to 15 years for murder , while Lieutenant Javier Marquina got seven years . |
| 17 | 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 : |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The government prudently used most of its bonus to rebuild the foreign-exchange reserves ; it also restored the 10% cut made last year in public-sector salaries , and raised pensions by 5% . |
| 20 | Oxford Crown Court heard the 24 year old defendant attacked seventeen year old Ian Barnes onthe steps of Oxfordshire Social Services in Banbury in August last year . |
| 21 | But with a lower costs base and 6 p.c. rise in advertising revenue expected this year , the company is dipping into reserves to lift the dividend total 11 p.c. to 16p , with a 13⅛p final on June 8 . |
| 22 | ALI BOUREQUAT AND HIS TWO BROTHERS ENDURED 19 YEARS IN MOROCCAN PRISONS WITHOUT CHARGE OR TRIAL . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | With further losses expected this year , strategy has been overhauled under the guidance of chairman Brian Garraway , who hands over to financial services managing director , Martin Broughton , in July . |
| 25 | The Retirement Care Group , a company which specialises in managing retirement schemes , estimates that more than 4,000 sheltered properties are on the market and that builders have cut their original forecast of 12,000 units built this year back to about 8,000 as a result . |
| 26 | An EPA contractor reported last year that the resulting blocks of concrete no longer contained PCBs , leading to speculation that the lime was reacting to neutralize the toxin . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | More than 800 islanders died when the volcano erupted last year and 31 have been killed by mudflows since mid-August |
| 29 | The practice stopped many years ago but in many farm kitchens in the county , the hooks can still be seen . |
| 30 | There were few new books added each year and I would think that a great number of volumes had been in the Library from its opening in 1905 . |