Example sentences of "[art] [num] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Evidence from sea-bed sediment cores suggests that , in the 1.8 million years since the start of the Pleistocene , the temperate and polar regions have passed through a dozen or more warm-cold cycles caused primarily by changes in levels of incident radiation . |
| 2 | It was inevitable that great changes would take place during the 140 million years , including extinctions of genera and sub-orders , if not entire orders . |
| 3 | In fact , stage dates have already been estimated for the Cretaceous , with the startling conclusion that of the 67 million years attributed to the twelve stages of the system , nearly 20 million are given to a single stage-the Cenomanian . |
| 4 | Both Dorothea 's discomforting sense of an almost impassable gulf dividing rich and poor and their peculiar confidence in the building of cottages are slight anachronisms in the early 1830s ; by the 1870s they are pervasive assumptions , indicating that , in the forty intervening years , attitudes to the poor and their houses had undergone a radical change . |
| 5 | There are others in the six hundred years between us today and Julian and our unidentified author of The Cloud . |
| 6 | The maths he produced in the six short years before his death in 1920 is treasured for its originality . |
| 7 | In Canada it came to be known as ‘ The 10 Lost Years ’ , which were devastating for those on the prairies and very difficult for those in the cities . |
| 8 | John Hoskyns , who was later knighted by a grateful Prime Minister for his work in running her Policy Unit , talked of the Churchill/Eden/Macmillan/Home period as ‘ the thirteen wasted years ’ , a phrase borrowed from a Labour campaign slogan . |
| 9 | But what er what happened is when they rebuilt this building in the fifteenth century the masons found these and reused them reset them inside because they 'd lost their significance in over the three hundred years , so but they were useful structural er things . |
| 10 | During the three relevant years of assessment there were markets for certificates of deposit in London and in Singapore but not in Hong Kong . |
| 11 | Not only since she came home in nineteen ninety but in the three long years when she was hospitalised . |
| 12 | The industrial emphasis of the course , closely allying technical application with creative design development , is further strengthened by an integral Business and Marketing input which aims to develop , during the three taught years , the economic and professional awareness now so essential to the practice of designing . |
| 13 | In the sixty odd years that have passed since it was built , the house , like any other house , has mellowed . |
| 14 | The war had proved Dobbie 's exceptional ability as a staff officer and for nine of the ten following years he served in staff appointments in the Rhine Army , Aldershot , the War Office , and Western Command . |
| 15 | Without this revival before 1914 it is difficult to see how the parry could have survived the ten turbulent years that followed . |
| 16 | On the other hand , a primordial black hole should have almost completely evaporated in the ten billion years that have elapsed since the big bang , the beginning of the universe as we know it . |
| 17 | Dr Kepepwe assured me active steps were being taken to trace those who had been intimate with me during the ten blank years : my parents , my academic colleagues . |
| 18 | Our findings indicate pronounced sensitivity of P falciparum to halofantrine in Gabon in 1992 despite its widespread use there over the 3 previous years . |
| 19 | The two companies had sought to have withdrawn undertakings given to the MMC 15 years ago when it last investigated their grip on cross-Channel routes . |
| 20 | In the seventy-seven subsequent years that divide the publication of Sketches by Boz and the accession of Queen Victoria from the outbreak of the First World War , fictional houses are seen rather than sensed , until the burden of acquisition , despite attempts to redeem it , becomes a tyranny which ultimately destroys the Victorian notion of ‘ home ’ . |
| 21 | In the twelve bright years of the young pharaoh 's reign — he had died insane aged twenty-nine , his dream and his country in ruins — a new light had seemed to dance in the souls of men too . |
| 22 | ( 1980 ) provide such a northern hemisphere scenario by comparing the five warmest years with the five coldest over the period 1925–74 . |
| 23 | Chinese officials expressed anger at his reform package and , according to the Far Eastern Economic Review of Nov. 5 , threatened retaliation which could make Hong Kong virtually ungovernable in the five remaining years of British rule . |
| 24 | Even though industrial sectors where there was little or no potential for technological innovation were not included in the study , one-quarter of firms had not bought any kind of new technology in the five previous years . |
| 25 | As well as calling on the Government to continue to fund the five academic years of architectural education , the report made wide-ranging recommendations for future developments . |
| 26 | This is the background to the drought of 1982 , which the government says could be as bad as the one 10 years before . |
| 27 | After all , it was only 5.7 on the Richter scale , not quite as big as the one six years ago . |
| 28 | Hard times are also showing up overhasty mergers , like the one two years ago between Withers and Crossman Block ; they have now demerged . |
| 29 | It has already lasted longer than the one two years ago , a tribute to the organisational powers of the independent miners ' union , which unites the various strike committees that sprang up in 1989 . |
| 30 | When he was told that what he had said was all very well but a bit negative , he fell back on the 13 wasted years that he has been in opposition . |