Example sentences of "[art] [adj] year [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The John Radcliffe hospital in Oxford is to upgrade security on its wards , the new comes , the news comes in the light of the sexual assault on the eleven year girl at St Helier 's hospital . |
| 2 | We 're having a whole day next term to sort out testing for the eleven year olds . |
| 3 | Now that the eight year journey to Passion is complete it is all of our responsibility to get out there and get Passion into bookshops , onto bookshelves and onto reading lists . |
| 4 | Our reasons for that are that the especially the eight year average used by the County Council , are unduly skewed by the boom of the late eighties , and give in our view , to high a trend t to erm to work from . |
| 5 | Because they 've been split between school , between young classes , my daughter 's been in with the eight year olds . |
| 6 | The eight years difference in age seems now |
| 7 | Oh absolutely , yes I 'm not arguing about that , and as I said , heaven forbid that should happen , erm another point I did pick up from one report was that in the eight years war , and you 're quite right , the Iraqis are battle hardened , but the Iranian air force apparently could n't bomb Iraq to any great consequence except for the first few weeks of the conflict . |
| 8 | Here was a storeroom of statuary of deceased Sagramosos , exiled at the accession of a new Lord , though not condemned to be crushed to dust — their sheer enduring weight might act as anchor to the multi-thousand year dynasty . |
| 9 | The luck of Lyle 's caddie in picking the right year David Davies does a round of golf 's library and rejoices in one man 's rub of the green . |
| 10 | This treaty was probably made either before 724 or after 729 , for during the intervening years Pictland was torn by the dynastic in-fighting among rival princes which preceded the ascendancy of the powerful Pictish king , Óengus , son of Forgus . |
| 11 | One possible answer is that in periods of structural change major upheavals and dislocation are felt — a crisis is obvious — whereas in the intervening years changes occur smoothly and are felt to be less dramatic . |
| 12 | In all the intervening years Chant had wondered if he had attempted a second summoning alone , and been the voiders ' victim . |
| 13 | During the 12 year period there have been seven other cases of colonic cancer in association with ulcerative colitis at this centre . |
| 14 | During the 12 year period 1978–1990 nine colonic cancers were found in association with ulcerative colitis , but only one was detected by the surveillance programme . |
| 15 | Courtaulds ( the international chemical material group ) has applied FRS 3 in producing the half year figures for the six months ended 30 September 1992 ; it has also restated the prior year comparative figures on the same basis . |
| 16 | Q2 deficit up from $22.9m to $32.1m produced deficit at the half year $5.0m higher at $64.8m on written premiums — including recent acquisition Hawkeye — 13.6% higher in currency . |
| 17 | The half year report claims that this adds useful insight to the participation of the various key stakeholders to the distributable cash value generated inside the group . |
| 18 | The half year result was a 34 per cent rise over last time , and at the higher end of City estimates . |
| 19 | But although the company managed to exceed its targets by the half year stage , it was n't able to maintain such growth levels — turnover for the entire year grew only 10% to $253m . |
| 20 | I AM writing this foreword to the 1993 Year Book on my very first evening in the diocese after the announcement of my appointment yesterday . |
| 21 | It is the first-ever full scale play to be presented in the 140 year history of St George 's Hall . |
| 22 | At the end of the 2 year training programme ( one year in certain cases ) you will have met the training requirements of the appropriate professional institutions , leading to corporate status . |
| 23 | If the employment contract is not renewed at the end of the 2 year period benefit should not be paid as the policy wordings exclude ‘ unemployment which arises at the normal termination date of a fixed term contract ’ . |
| 24 | This means that it is possible to follow their activities closely over the 2 year period of the project . |
| 25 | In spite of this , in the individual developing countries , with the exception of a few ( probably due to the small sample size for the extreme age categories ) , and in all developing regions , levels of mortality are much higher for infants born to women who have not reached age 20 and those aged 40 and over than to babies whose mothers were in the middle of their childbearing ages ( i.e. in the 20–39 years age group ) at their birth . |
| 26 | Because of the now universal use in England of the Historical year system , it is normal for reference books to mark events of all kinds which happened between 1 January and 24 March in any one year with a double indicator — thus King Henry V may be judged to have come to the throne on 21 March 1412/13 , that is 1412 by Annunciation reckoning , but 1413 by Historical ( now conventional ) reckoning . |
| 27 | Thus for official purposes the old reckoning of 25 March was used , but its employment for unofficial and private purposes was waning to the extent that many documents carried a double indicator for the period 1 January to 24 March , as was illustrated by the inventory quoted in the Historical Year section , above . |
| 28 | The award winning Blue Ball Inn at Malton has been put on the market with a price tag of £275,000 for the 30 year lease . |
| 29 | It was founded in the late 700s , but most of its present buildings ( pastel-coloured and timbered , and punctuated with onion-dome towers ) date from the reconstruction in the late 1600s and 1700s , after the 30 years war . |
| 30 | Despite increased teaching loads over the past three years , the School , as a whole , has very substantially increased its research funding and its research output , over the 3–4 year period of assessment . |