Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [verb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1987 AMV invested in McBain Noel-Johnson , a design and advertising agency which Baulk helped found 20 years ago . |
| 2 | Technical advice from fellow Lancastrian John Spencer helped to land last year 's title and he is again in his corner . |
| 3 | The Jerusalem that Richard tried to capture 700 years ago is proof of that . |
| 4 | The G7 nations began pressing last year for international laws aimed at protecting the world 's forests , but North and South have remained divided over should foot the bill . |
| 5 | It was the day after Marie went missing four years ago . |
| 6 | A director once commented that Kiefer Sutherland had lived two years for every one that had passed . |
| 7 | Discussions over the Chevron deal had started four years previously , and were renewed when the collapse of the Soviet Union in December 1991 allowed control over natural resources to pass to individual republics . |
| 8 | Renault had decided two years previously to close the plant , with the loss of 4,000 jobs ; production was moved to more functional and efficient sites in north-east France . |
| 9 | Today 's results show that many teenagers have been hit by the recession , with the average pocket money received falling this year . |
| 10 | Lord Mountbatten had spent ten years tirelessly promoting the dream , talking about it all over the world , often in the highest places , inspiring everyone around him and shamelessly raising money to build more colleges . |
| 11 | The settlement was already declining by 1340 , with sheep flocks one-third of those the village had boasted forty years earlier . |
| 12 | How the owners of these desirable residences had complained ten years ago when they found that the Garfield Centre was going to be built in their neighbourhood . |
| 13 | As Suez had occurred twenty-four years earlier and as both Eden and Mountbatten were dead , it seemed to me that Sir Robert 's arguments were nonsensical . |
| 14 | That was in 1977 and Hope had to wait two years before making his second attempt . |
| 15 | Although Iceland had changed some years before to driving on the right , the bus which was well past its sell-by date — was right-hand drive ; the first bit of England I had seen for three weeks . |
| 16 | By 1898 national interest had been aroused and the British Institute of Undertakers was formed , succeeding where the United Company of Undertakers had failed 160 years previously . |
| 17 | They settled in England after Frits had spent many years serving in the Dutch Merchant Navy . |
| 18 | When the heir to the Spencer earldom got married three years ago , Guppy was his best man . |
| 19 | Germany 's trade surplus with the rest of the European Community did shrink last year , to DM65 billion ( $40 billion ) from DM94 billion in 1989 . |
| 20 | Membership had brought several years of sustained economic growth , with a high level of foreign investment . |
| 21 | Sir Richard Sutton said it was the biggest meet the Cottesmore had seen that year . |
| 22 | The fact that the American Civil War had lasted five years was overlooked or discounted . |
| 23 | Madeline had spent 20 years in education and childcare management and for the last 10 had been running nine nurseries for a charity in London . |
| 24 | Guntram had died three years earlier and , according to the seventh-century chronicler Fredegar , Sigibert 's son , Childebert II ( 575 – 96 ) took over his kingdom , thus uniting what had been the kingdom of Orléans , but which came to be known as the kingdom of Burgundy , with that of Rheims , or Austrasia . |
| 25 | I was accepted as part of the family , which consisted of two daughters and a grandfather , ; the husband had died many years before . |
| 26 | Her second husband had died Some years before , and now she lived with her son , George Grimsdale and his two young children in a large house at Windsor — 37 Victoria Cottages . |
| 27 | The first difficulties began to appear last year after the Mazowiecki government , without consulting the public or the parliament , decreed that children should be taught religion in schools , in effect making Catholicism close to a state religion . |
| 28 | Peter de Savary 's crew discovered climbing last year , although it appears he off-loaded the place on another property speculator in the summer without bothering to tell anyone ! |
| 29 | On Nov. 18 the Supreme Court had ended 17 years of one-party rule by legalizing the opposition Democratic Front . |
| 30 | The background was that Stanley 's first wife had died six years previously , and Joan had been her best friend . |