Example sentences of "[adj] year [conj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Take my word for it , I 've been going for 30 years since the well was a bucket in a hole in the ground , and there is plenty of water , ’ she said . |
| 2 | A VANDAL-PROOF stained glass window is to be installed in a village church 30 years after the original was vandalised . |
| 3 | It has run Bavaria for 30 years and the state premiership is in its gift . |
| 4 | The current volume of vehicles could triple , or even quadruple , over the next 30 years and the bulk of the increase will fall on rural roads rather than urban streets or motorways . |
| 5 | Crossman joined Ambrose 's Embassy Club Orchestra in 1926 , some years before the band made its name as the finest jazz group in Europe . |
| 6 | It was a diamond shape , flown as the Flexi-kite for some years before the patent application was made , and it heralded the concept of a lifting surface with two cones which could be controlled as a parachute or kite . |
| 7 | Erm it 's now some years since the Board departed from most of its work with erm in children 's homes , I think we have only one children 's home now operating in Stonehaven . |
| 8 | David rose through the ranks from education officer to acting director of technical education during his years in Northern Rhodesia , but some years after the country gained independence he made the decision to leave . |
| 9 | Opinion : ‘ … it will not be known until Sizewell B has been operating for some years whether the PWR will become the established nuclear option that has been sought for 30 years . ’ |
| 10 | It was nearly forty years since the history master had bawled him out on the pavement over there , in front of the House of Commons . |
| 11 | It is interesting to note that bullhead rail is still in evidence some forty years after the infant British Railways adopted flat-bottom rail as standard . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been trying for forty years and the margin of error 's still about eighty per cent . ’ |
| 13 | But it 's only just over two and a half years since the village Post Office and shop put up the shutters for the last time . |
| 14 | Although the pied flycatcher 's adultery has been known about since 1950 , it is only in the last few years that the scientist Rauno Alatalo and his colleagues , studying pied flycatchers in Sweden , have begun to unravel the finer details . |
| 15 | He he 's arguing I think on a basis of , of the experience of the past few years that the situation now in China was a , was a rather variable one , that land reform had proceeded at different rates in different areas and because areas where different that had to be taken into account and Mao explicitly was going back to the idea that in the newly liberated areas the policy would be one of rent reduction , interest rate reduction and that rent and interest rate reduction had to be established for some time until the position had consolidated around rent reduction , around interest rate reduction and once that had happened you would then be able to go into land reform itself . |
| 16 | He adds : ‘ It has been a good few years since the snow has been this hard which means a lot of walkers are n't used to it . |
| 17 | It is just a few years since the club — whose anthem was : ‘ We are Millwall . |
| 18 | What the authorities failed to realise was that in the few years since the war had ended , aircraft design had moved forward a long way , and there had been a rapid development of jet aircraft of which Tank had little or no real experience — he had not been involved in this critical new phase . |
| 19 | Heinrich and Martha walked through this world , which was fated to last only a few years before the spell was broken , like a prince and princess . |
| 20 | However , the future is very uncertain and it remains to be seen if this increase can be maintained during the next few years while the size of the eighteen-year-old population remains large . |
| 21 | It was a difficult period for a few years until the market caught up with us . ’ |
| 22 | Certain areas , notably Oxford and Cambridge and the so-called Golden Triangle , have experienced major high-tech-based growth in the past few years and the government is keen to encourage this type of development as reflected in Department of the Environment Circular 16/84 , changes to the Use Classes Order and measures to liberalise planning controls over business in general . |
| 23 | I had lived in a motor car for a few years and the rediscovery of my legs was painful . |
| 24 | What is amazing , therefore , is that the agency that has the responsibility for this programme — Milton Keynes Development Corporation — has been largely wound down over the past few years and the remainder of it will cease to exist in 1992 . |
| 25 | The main reason for many Opposition Members feeling more warmly towards the European Community now than they did in the past is the record of the Community in the past few years and the contrast between what has happened elsewhere in the Community and what we have seen take place in Britain . |
| 26 | Harlech formed part of a distinct military plan and its power and might are unquestioned even today , 700 years after the castle was built . |
| 27 | Allowing for unseen problems , which are always a factor in the unstable Middle East , it is likely to be 10–14 years before the power is switched on . |
| 28 | John Maynard Smith , who was Haldane 's pupil , says his most remarkable piece of foresight was the suggestion in 1941 , 12 years before the structure of DNA was elucidated , that genes would replicate semi-conservatively , that is , by a molecule splitting in two and each half making a mirror image of itself . |
| 29 | The system using freezing instead of hot branding has been working for 12 years and the firm has now won a Royal Warrant . |
| 30 | Two projects commissioned by the European Commission — the competitiveness of the Community 's ‘ tradeable service sector ’ relative to Japan and the USA , and the ‘ identification of the technical devices that will lead to new service activities in the next 10-15 years and the role which these new services might play in European society ’ — were completed in 1985 . |