Example sentences of "[adj] year [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In previous years the selection of the carnival queen had been organised by elimination contests in the town and surrounding villages , but 30 years ago the committee asked that young ladies should send in a copy of a recent photograph . |
| 2 | However , over 30 years ago the theorist Paul Dirac suggested the possible existence of particles carrying single magnetic poles or ‘ charges ’ — in other words , magnetic monopoles . |
| 3 | Some years ago the word ‘ psychosomatic ’ was often prefaced by the word ‘ merely ’ and was used to suggest that an illness was in some way unreal or made up . |
| 4 | In an editorial some years later the Army magazine Salvationist reported , " Diane Thompson and Sharon Swindells did not merely lose their lives . |
| 5 | Some years beforehand the Writer 's Guild of Great Britain ( a kind of trade union for authors ) had been in correspondence with its opposite number in Australia . |
| 6 | 2 years ago the total was just under 8,000 . |
| 7 | Forty years ago the Theatre Collection was founded as a research centre for staff and students in the Drama Department . |
| 8 | Forty years ago the population was under 20,000 but now it is seven times that . |
| 9 | Forty years ago the population was under 20,000 but now it is seven times that . |
| 10 | Forty years later the islet of old Jaimeni appeared . |
| 11 | Forty years earlier the promise of town planning was that it could address the urban housing problems of the day , but the principles of environmental regulations were now seen to relate to a quite different set of questions : the problems of regional economic development . |
| 12 | Two and a half years ago the Home Office introduced the Caution scheme , encouraging police to use their discretion to give some young offenders a warning , rather than sending them to court . |
| 13 | A few years later the duchy of Austria was awarded to one of the sons of Rudolph of Habsburg . |
| 14 | In A.D. 324 Constantine moved his capital to Byzantium and a few years later the Empire was divided into two parts , eastern and western . |
| 15 | The swings had gone and the pier had been demolished ; a few years ago the Council had given permission for a café-and-restaurant to be built , but the place had only been open a month when it caught fire and was burned out ; the Fire Brigade could n't get to it , the promenade being too narrow for their vehicles . |
| 16 | A few years ago the cousin of a Sumatran friend of ours was killed by a singularly persistent elephant . |
| 17 | Was , because a few years ago the hotel burned down and has gone forever . |
| 18 | A few years ago the start was changed from the South Reading Community Centre to the Rivermead Leisure Centre ; the new set-up has proved popular with runners . |
| 19 | Until a few years ago the parish had the right to nominate one person to the Aims Houses at Cobham , also known as Cobham College . |
| 20 | It has now been restored to a superb family home by the present Lord and Lady Feversham and it is hard to imagine that only a few years ago the house was little more than an empty , echoing shell . |
| 21 | A few years earlier the judge observed of a 17-year-old girl who was raped by a motorist with whom she hitched a lift after being stranded following a party , that ‘ the victim was guilty of a great deal of contributory negligence ’ 1 . |
| 22 | It is therefore difficult for him to appreciate the general view of the Service , that , on his return … he must re-establish his professional standing , even though a few years earlier the Service had sent him to University because he had proved himself to be a good , practical policeman . |
| 23 | Although the station was non-operational for a few years following the disaster it was fully operational again by April 1979 and since 1985 has had a modern Tyne class lifeboat on station to cover the wide stretch of north-east facing coast around the port . |
| 24 | ‘ And yet six years ago the music of the sidh was heard in Ireland again , Fergus . ’ |
| 25 | Six years ago The Economist thought about introducing a face called Excelsior Insertio into the paper . |
| 26 | Six years ago the practice was prohibited . |
| 27 | Six years later the traveller and writer Eric Newby had a chance meeting with Thesiger in the Hindu Kush . |
| 28 | For six years following the adoption in November 1927 by the PCF Central Committee of the " class against class " tactic , the party followed an increasingly doctrinaire , Bolshevik course . |
| 29 | About 10 years ago the use of ml and l for millilitres and litres respectively was banished suddenly from British Standards in favour of mL and L , though both are permitted as alternatives by the ISO standard dealing with the layout of standards . |
| 30 | That kind of rise has helped to push the average purse available on the tour next year up to £340,000 , whereas 10 years ago the prize fund for the Open Championship was only £200,000 . |