Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pron] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within a few months of arriving in Blackpool , Luff announced his five year plan to transform the Undertaking , changed the livery to ivory and green , and introduced a streamlined tramcar as the prototype of a new fleet ( see p. 65 ) . |
| 2 | Substantial increases on the previous year were made by 446 Branches , 138 Branches sustained their last year 's contribution , which in many cases had already been a record , and only 43 were significantly down . |
| 3 | In 1958 at the Club 's Golden Jubilee celebrations , Charles Luker recalled his early years when the rough lived up to its name and when after each game very golf club head was well rubbed down with emery cloth to prevent it rusting . |
| 4 | ‘ In 1985 , ’ a Boulevard fan told me last year , ‘ Wigan had superman on the wing . ’ |
| 5 | One passage , when Edward was a scholar at Battersea Grammar School , sums up the general atmosphere of 61 Shelgate Road , as the poet recalled it twenty years later : |
| 6 | Rembrandt spent his last years in Amsterdam and the building in which he died now houses the Rembrandt House Museum . |
| 7 | Mr Entwistle spent his early years working in the Coventry laboratories , mainly on viscose development . |
| 8 | Opening the 1993 season , Lyles Golf Club started its third year with two competitions on the same day at Braehead Golf Club , Alloa , on 16th April . |
| 9 | The job search took him seven years , and by that time he was ripe for retirement . |
| 10 | The programme completed its first year in May during which time 25 miles of footpaths were improved . |
| 11 | R At the Guildhall the Queen described her horrible year . |
| 12 | The allied word ‘ antibiotic , reached the English language when the botanist Marshall Hall used it 10 years later . |
| 13 | One of my assets in journalism , as Fred Workman told me some years later , was the habit of creating stories and features by developing an idea and then taking the necessary steps to work it into an acceptable feature . |
| 14 | On Thursday 23rd July 1992 Gwilym Pritchard and Harold Postles , service technicians based at Pest Control Manchester South celebrated their 25 years with the company . |
| 15 | We are delighted that Ibstock joined us this year . |
| 16 | Arthur Whitten-Brown , the navigator , who by a twist of fate spent his formative years living in Chorlton , Manchester , selected and installed all the instruments . |
| 17 | I 'd spent most of it with the other two , one bad and the other indifferent , now I 'd come across a good one and fate gave us four years together , that 's all . |
| 18 | Frank bought it last year |
| 19 | I got a bottle of gin a bloke bought me three years ago . |
| 20 | First tonight , a couple have criticised the gaol sentence handed out to an arsonist , whose attack on their home left their five year old daughter maimed and disfigured . |
| 21 | The food retailer unveiled its half year results last Wednesday . |
| 22 | However , while battles such as those of the Jarama ( February 1937 ) , Guadalajara ( March 1937 ) and Brunete ( July 1937 ) were fought bitterly and with heavy casualties on both sides , as the Civil War entered its second year the fronts around Madrid had changed little since the previous November . |
| 23 | William Golding 's Lord of the Flies reminded us some years ago that children are far from immune to the virus of cruelty and irrationality that is latent in all human beings . |
| 24 | But them ones Bob erm Pam bought me last year was it last year or the year before ? |
| 25 | Ron Taylor spent his last years living in appalling conditions . |
| 26 | Born in 1890 , Duke lived his early years in the waters of Waikiki . |
| 27 | The defending lawyer told magistrate Terence Maher that Long , 48 , turned to the bottle after his wife divorced him three years ago . |
| 28 | As Fidel Castro 's revolution entered its 33rd year this month , shortages of food and consumer goods were the most obvious of the many challenges to Cuba 's Caribbean version of socialism . |
| 29 | I , I , a hairdresser told me that years ago Elaine . |
| 30 | Around 180 per 100,000 Greenland males killed themselves that year . |