Example sentences of "[adj] year [noun prp] ['s] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | New developments — In the last 20 or 30 years Nepal 's population has near doubled . |
| 2 | In the last 20 or 30 years Nepal 's population has near doubled . |
| 3 | But within a few years Browne 's fortunes were restored : he acquired monopolies of the manufacture and sales of both iron and bronze ordnance , as well as iron pots , kettles , chimney backs , and iron weights ‘ in the French manner ’ . |
| 4 | For the first few years Blackpool 's trams represented the only practical example in the World , of electric tramcars running in crowded thoroughfares . |
| 5 | After seventy-two years Berlin 's Galerie Nierendorf is closing . |
| 6 | In July this year Sotheby 's London offered another of these pastels , a portrait of Elizabeth , Duchess of Buccleuch , which made £40,000 against an estimate of £40–60,000 . |
| 7 | From October this year NESCOT 's Faculty of Construction will be offering HND , BSc [ Hons ] and MSc courses in Facilities Management , all on either a full or part-time basis . |
| 8 | On 7 and 8 April this year Christie 's Amsterdam realised over £ 4 million for 28,000 pieces of Chinese export porcelain salvaged from a trading junk sunk off the coast of Vietnam in 1690 . |
| 9 | Indeed , since 1986 unit labour costs have risen more slowly in France than Germany , and by the end of this year France 's rate of consumer-price inflation could be lower than Germany 's . |
| 10 | This year Biggin 's organisers are opening the show site a day early , on Friday 19 June , to give the public an opportunity to see aircraft arriving for the Air Fair and watch performers practising for the airshow . |
| 11 | This year America 's deficit and Germany 's surplus are forecast to be less than half as big , as a percentage of GNP , as they were at their peak ; Japan 's surplus may be only a quarter of its peak level . |
| 12 | This year Gloucestershire 's fire service has had to deal with 16 per cent more arsons at farms than last year … and farm fires by their very nature are n't the easiest to deal with . |
| 13 | IN THE SUMMER of this year Hindley 's wife Frances had her first , and last , baby . |
| 14 | He said : ‘ The Crosby 10 was set up to help local charities and when we were taking suggestions for this year Vicki 's name was mentioned . |
| 15 | But y I think you can also see the appeal of this to Freud in that time because in the early years Freud 's model of the mind , which is really what we 're talking about today , was erm a kind of hydraulic one . |
| 16 | What is undoubtedly clear is that during these years Henry 's power was still steadily advancing , though most modern writers tend to create the false impression of a king entirely preoccupied with the awkward domestic problem of the quarrel with Thomas Becket . |
| 17 | In his later years Ken 's health was poor . |
| 18 | In three years VPI 's value had risen from £9.55 million to £121 million . |
| 19 | For the last three years OUP 's text processing systems have used an ICL 2904 for its main processing with certain programs on a Burroughs B6800 . |
| 20 | Over the next three years Teesside 's discharges of biodegradable compounds [ BOD ] will continue to drop as improvement plans come to fruition . |
| 21 | For many years Tukaram 's enemy Rameshwar had incited the people against Tukaram and been instrumental in having Tukaram 's poems thrown into a river . |
| 22 | For many years WACC 's communication education work has focused on curriculum development , professional education , a training assistance programme , a programme of animateurs and media literacy . |
| 23 | As Neil says ‘ after 25 years Martin 's enthusiasm and enjoyment of his work is undimmed and he well deserves the respect and applause of his colleagues . ’ |
| 24 | During the previous twenty-five years Chesterfield 's burial totals never rose to more than seventy per annum and were usually at a much lower level , but in 1587 the number of recorded deaths reached a staggering 313 . |
| 25 | Bottomore writing in 1965 noted , ‘ For the past eighty years Marx 's theory has been the object of unrelenting criticism and tenacious defence ’ . |
| 26 | Miti also claimed that in the past five years Japan 's imports from its 10 largest trading partners had increased by 96 per cent , while exports had risen by only 45 per cent . |
| 27 | For thirty five years Espinasse 's Ale held its own in the turbulent market conditions of Ireland 's eighteenth century brewery industry . |
| 28 | In any one year Jacqueline 's work may involve the preparation of a show , several commissions , the writing of a few articles , and organisation of the Summer School . |
| 29 | In the first year Armstrong 's concern is to go for a minimum safe agenda — ‘ make sure clients are safe and then build on that . ’ |
| 30 | Light dawns on the small Year Niner 's face as she hastens to explain that the stain on the front of her school blouse is jam that has squirted out of her break-time doughnut , and not blood at all . |