Example sentences of "years [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yup , ’ said Lucy , nearly thirty years on , lighting a cigarette , tossing away a cloud of smoke with the word . |
| 2 | As a university teacher of English , one reads this abrasive passage , twenty-five years on , with a painful sense of recognition . |
| 3 | Twenty years on , the phrases which she saw as indicating a deformation of values have become commonplace in the Thatcherite academy , where contemplation is regarded as idleness , rather than the other way round , and Leavis 's abominated ‘ technologico-Benthamism ’ is firmly in the saddle . |
| 4 | Thirty years on , English is a large and entrenched subject , and there is no likelihood of putting the clock back , and starting again in some other way : my proposal for a division between Cultural Studies and a degree in poetry is a pragmatic proposal for a way out of current difficulties . |
| 5 | Two years on and £1,000 poorer ( I 've had to foot his costs to buy him off my land ) the lawyers have patched up some sort of agreement . |
| 6 | ‘ Ten years on , I am quite sure that the biggest issue we have uncovered is the issue of neglect , ’ Ms Reeves says . |
| 7 | Seven years on , much of this character survives in Mike Ashman 's revival : it remains one of the least pantomimic of Brides ( though the circus , with brilliant tightrope dancing by Brenda Larenty , is a startling exception ) . |
| 8 | Forty years on , there is , at best , a consensus of boredom with the virulent attacks against allegedly renascent fascism , and the endlessly invoked Achievements . |
| 9 | Two years on , Cleveland should be allowed to move from anger and denial to acceptance and compassion — for the sake of children and the people abusing them , both of whom need effective help . |
| 10 | They were remarkable figures then , but almost 25 years on we beat them fairly handsomely , in a car which , although in a pretty healthy stage of tune ( probably around 350bhp ) , has nothing that any Cobra owner could n't have bought over the counter , and which is still perfectly useable on the road in small doses . |
| 11 | But , less than three years on , a barrage of unforeseen problems has compelled Peter Mantle to take on the responsibilities of a new role : that of vigorous country crusader . |
| 12 | Ten years on , however , Charles and Diana have come through it . |
| 13 | 40 years on : One nation or two ? . |
| 14 | Two years on , the Intifada shows little sign of abating . |
| 15 | Two years on , the Intifada 's aim — the two-state solution -remains ‘ moderate ’ , and , by and large , so do its non-armed methods . |
| 16 | Only obeying orders — forty years on Why are East Germans bent on punishing their former leaders ? |
| 17 | Engineer Peter William Barlow sank the first hole in the ground on Tower Hill in 1869. 130 years on we 've got creaking trains that have been in service for 30 years and more . |
| 18 | Five years on , anti-rockism is the new hippiedom . |
| 19 | The class-parable means much less to most Britons 60 years on . |
| 20 | The bill for the damage when the Amoco Cadiz foundered off the coast of Brittany , before the compensation fund was set up , is still grinding through the courts , 12 years on . |
| 21 | The higher number of births from the mid-1950s and through the 1960s inevitably meant more pensioners sixty years on . |
| 22 | When Professor Hans Eysenck jumps up with his revised IQ results , 20 years on , still ‘ proving ’ that blacks are ‘ genetically inferior ’ , he calls himself courageous , a knight hunting for rational truths when all around him cling to myths ( the ‘ myth of equality ’ , in his words ) . |
| 23 | Three years on , Mr Garnett has set up a company — Wisdom Agricultural — to make and market the device . |
| 24 | Now , forty years on , there was at last the technology — laser-tracking CD video — that would give him the finest sound with the finest picture-resolution in a medium that was compatible with the new domestic sound system that would , by the early 1990s , render the LP largely obsolete . |
| 25 | One of Spiegelman 's boldest frames shows their bodies dangling among trees at one side of a wood that also holds , on the far side , the Spiegelman family car in which Vladek , 40 years on , recounts the girls ' story to his son . |
| 26 | Twenty-five years on , the claims for compensation for medical disability are still trickling in . |
| 27 | Last summer — and 11 years on — on a tricky surface at Headingley and at a crucial time , he played his greatest Test innings , carrying his bat for an extraordinary 7½ hours making an unbeaten 154 . |
| 28 | Last summer — and 11 years on — on a tricky surface at Headingley and at a crucial time , he played his greatest Test innings , carrying his bat for an extraordinary 7½ hours making an unbeaten 154 . |
| 29 | ‘ Battles are won primarily in the hearts of men , ’ Monty was to write of Alamein twenty-five years on . |
| 30 | The improvements were a little disappointing and five years on , corrosion has eaten well into the reflective surfaces . |