Example sentences of "[adj] year [noun sg] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In June this year AMP increased its shareholding in Pearl to 18 per cent when it acquired a 13 per cent stake from FAI Insurances , a leading Australian insurance and investment group . |
| 2 | The owner of an eighteen foot fibre glass shark has won a six year battle to keep it on the roof of his terraced home . |
| 3 | The following year Law told his audience that Council candidates won School Board elections in Stratford-on-Avon and Sutton Coldfield while in Cardiff they worked to return an ‘ unsectarian ’ majority . |
| 4 | The corresponding amounts at the previous year end include its assets and liabilities at that date and show the shares issued by the group to acquire it as if they had been in issue then . |
| 5 | For ten long years Misery leaves him there , during which time no-one in the village dies . |
| 6 | The British Medical Journal ( June '90 ) reports that Miss Pauline Bousquet , an Obstetrician who supports natural childbirth at St. Thomas ' Hospital , London has won her 11 year battle to clear her name on charges of professional incompetence brought by male colleagues . |
| 7 | So a thirty year old service might be entirely different than a person with ten years service deferring his pension . |
| 8 | ONE YEAR SUBSCRIPTION gets you either : 1 . |
| 9 | TWO YEARS SUBSCRIPTION gets you one of : |
| 10 | In the course of two years North developed his own slide show , part accurate , part exaggeration , part emotion , and this representation was the bedrock of the domestic campaign for the contras : the world in 57 pictures of blurry military bases and Communist commandantes , utterly simple in its division between good and bad , and curiously believable . |
| 11 | I hope so — the thought of the scum winning the league two years running makes my blood curdle . |
| 12 | Within two years television gave it air time and a new spectator sport was born . |
| 13 | SMALL , West Ham 's forgotten striker , has set himself a New Year deadline to force his way back into Billy Bonds 's plans . |
| 14 | MOYRA FRASER , Cookery Editor , introduces Slim Plan — the tried and tested New Year diet to help you lose weight and enjoy it too ! |
| 15 | Last year PC launched its Ecotech initiative by introducing a limited range of nice Ecotech-approved products . |
| 16 | In many cases the local review committee at the seven year review considered it too early to set a release date , which no doubt dashed the hopes of the prisoners whose sentences were under review . |