Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [verb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some reason quite beyond Harry 's comprehension , somebody had been thrown from a window in Prague in the year of grace 1618 and this had provoked thirty years of bloody conflict all over Europe . |
| 2 | This had happened thirty years previously . |
| 3 | of USA stated that he was licensed in embalming in Ohio , and this had required two years in an academic college and one year 's mortuary service . |
| 4 | Indeed British reservations began to surface only after the Soviet nuclear test in the late summer of 1949 ( this had occurred some years earlier than expected ) , and when the scale of the American build-up in Britain became apparent . |
| 5 | Significantly , this is the very language which Urban II had used three years earlier with regard to homage by priests to laymen : the hands , he had declared , in which Christ 's Body was made in the Eucharist were defiled by having been enclosed in the bloody hands of laymen . |
| 6 | This difference increased with the age of the youngest child in the family , so that by the time the latter had reached 11 years old still only 44 per cent of the mothers of disabled children were in paid work compared with 87 per cent of control group mothers . |
| 7 | Monktonhall Mineworkers Ltd began to operate last year when 160 miners each invested £10,000 to reopen the pit . |
| 8 | Leeds United had waited 18 years for success following their domination of English football in the early 1970s . |
| 9 | Hopper 's film , which he first began writing four years earlier , had now also become a touch dated but that was not the major problem . |
| 10 | But The Stars Bow Down , with its biblical theme of Joseph and his brethren , though published in 1939 had to wait ten years before it was performed at the Malvern festival . |