Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [adj] year " in BNC.
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1 | Around a million kitchens are purchased or upgraded each year in Great Britain . |
2 | With the best will in the world many cases have to be withdrawn or discontinued each year . |
3 | The local crab industry is lucrative and expanding , as are the dolphin kills , and an estimated several thousand are being harpooned or shot each year . |
4 | Until recently , they were killed in their thousands by Turkish hunters in the Black Sea and they are still being actively hunted in Greenland , where about 1000 porpoises are harpooned or shot each year . |
5 | Perhaps the strangest case on record is that described five years ago in The Lancet ( 1978 , vol 2 , p 952 ) by Dr M. Loughhead and two colleagues at the Royal Hobart Hospital , Tasmania . |
6 | For Washburn 20 years of visual carnage has meant increasing mental instability and a compulsion to uncover the truth behind a murder that occurred 120 years before . |
7 | Some Old Testament books describe events that occurred many years before they were written . |
8 | The Johnson Matthey contingent in this year 's Royston Fun Run raised a superb total of £2,000 and the four JM employees that entered this year 's London Marathon have raised a total of well over £1,500 . |
9 | Yet the club has avoided the kind of foul-up that ruined this year 's Grand National steeplechase because of primitive starting procedures supervised by another archaic British body , the Jockey Club . |
10 | Whilst the conference lacked the hardware launches that dominated last year 's show , companies announced more software for their systems as supercomputers try to move into the mainstream . |
11 | Well that happened two years ago did n't it ? |
12 | ‘ David brings up situations that happened five years ago and still writes about them . |
13 | A spokesman for Midland said : ‘ They are technical rule breaches that happened three years ago . |
14 | I 've always had better things to do with my time than to plot hypothetical revenge for something that happened ten years ago ! ’ she snapped . |
15 | ‘ Do you really believe I 'd have blown a career I loved just to get even with you for something that happened ten years ago ? |
16 | And while it is easy enough for an experienced journalist to write that synopsis from memory ( checking for the elusive name of Software Arts and making sure that it really was PrairieTek that vanished last year ) , it would take a deal of research and above all deep thought to put together a dissertation on why things panned out the way they did , the fatal mistakes , the good decisions that each company made to achieve triumph or disaster , or both in quick succession . |
17 | Furthermore , as the gilded eagle seems poised for take-off to do battle with enemy hordes coming from the south-east , the memorial seems to have anticipated most aptly the events that followed 17 years after its unveiling . |
18 | After the rash of Chinese shots by Western photojournalists that followed last year 's student uprising , Zeng Nian 's views of Peking come as a welcome and refreshing change , giving us the chance to see the country through Chinese eyes |
19 | The advice was given after Jo had been speaking to both children and their parents ( an audience that included 12 year old Romy Hutchins — a participant in the Challenge — and her father Paul , the former British Davis Cup captain and national team manager ) , in a unique question and answer session which preceded an on court clinic for the 20 or so participating juniors . |
20 | From their discarded belongings she had made a museum that recorded forty years of family history . |
21 | Using a national cancer registry that started 50 years ago , we examined trends of anal cancer in Denmark . |
22 | That latter race was to be the forerunner of the great Paris races that started seven years later when continental manufacturers would use the races to show off their vehicles . |
23 | She was going to a flat which would have very little growing space , apart from the odd window box , and was leaving behind an extremely beautiful garden that contained many years of memories . |
24 | A career that spanned seven years at Oldham and four years with Hibs can now be seen only as preparation for the place where , and the time when , Goram would reach a higher plane of achievement . |
25 | The Woburn order included dwarf plums and cherries , French pears , an Elruge nectarine , and other fruit , with more young trees ‘ to make good those that died last year ’ in accordance with Gurle 's guarantee to supply ‘ the best of every sort in case any fail or die ’ . |
26 | TransTools ' latest product is MultiBase , an applications development tool for relational databases that took four years to develop . |
27 | And so — in my case very reluctantly , in a slow process of decision-making that took two years — we have taken the road to Budapest . |
28 | Unveiled : the jigsaw that took ten years |
29 | Largely missing from de Gaulle 's account were the dilemmas , ambiguities , illusions , deceptions , and self-deceptions that gave these years their poignancy . |
30 | I did n't know the person but I knew of her and I knew a friend of mine went to her , this is the one that did seven years . |