Example sentences of "[adj] year when [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There have been occasions over the past 30 years when the attendance in this House for my speeches has not been quite as large as it is today . |
| 2 | There followed a few years when the situation looked bright . |
| 3 | She has issued a High Court writ against the man who guided her career until earlier this year when a family fued drove them apart . |
| 4 | VALENTINE 'S Day reached a new low in bad taste this year when the Diary received a truly awful business Valentine card with a twelve-line poem that was excruciatingly awful . |
| 5 | Five Thirty 's ambitions were rekindled earlier this year when the band ( still essentially the same — Tara on bass and vocals , schoolmate Paul Bassett on guitar and vocals and new drummer Phil Hopper ) re-released ‘ Catcher In The Rye ’ as part of their alternative ‘ debut ’ single , ‘ Abstain ’ . |
| 6 | Five Thirty 's ambitions were rekindled earlier this year when the band ( still essentially the same — Tara on bass and vocals , schoolmate Paul Bassett on guitar and vocals and new drummer Phil Hopper ) re-released ‘ Catcher In The Rye ’ as part of their alternative ‘ debut ’ single , ‘ Abstain ’ . |
| 7 | They hope not to have that problem this year when the World Championships are in Santiago in Chile . |
| 8 | Council chairman Phyll Hendy said Point Clear had been isolated from St Osyth several times already this year when the causeway between the two settlements had flooded . |
| 9 | It was only earlier this year when the announcement was made about the extension of the east-west route that we had some of the information we 'd been seeking . |
| 10 | However , this Government have frozen , deliberately , purchase grants even in the past three years when the Minister has had funds at his disposal . |
| 11 | Debts on both the bridge and tunnels at Dartford are expected to be wiped out within 17 years when the structure will be transferred to the government , and the contractors will have recovered the costs and made a profit . |
| 12 | In those long years when the war had taken priority , Dr Tariq had rethought the detail of the programme . |
| 13 | They date from the last ten years when an interest in colour , triggered by a visit to Egypt in 1982 , assumed a dominant position in her work . |
| 14 | This set is a comprehensive history of Zeppelin , the ten years when the dinosaur ruled the Earth . |
| 15 | This set is a comprehensive history of Zeppelin , the ten years when the dinosaur ruled the Earth . |
| 16 | IN the post-war years when a shortage of building materials led to a virtual moratorium on construction , the young lions of the architectural scene moved into exhibition design . |
| 17 | BORIS BECKER disappointed his West German supporters for the second consecutive year when a knee injury forced him to withdraw from the Stuttgart Classic here yesterday . |
| 18 | Add this figure to 622 — the year of Mohammed 's flight from Mecca to Medina — and the result is the Gregorian year when the rug was made . |
| 19 | It is a stone bridge which was abandoned within twelve years when the railway was re-aligned for steam locomotive operation . |
| 20 | His name also appeared on over 100 papers during the five years when the fusion experiments were reportedly in process . |
| 21 | Usher relied on bore holes and tanks although even those proved inadequate one year when the school had to be closed for three months because of the shortage of water . |
| 22 | In 1912 golf progressed actively and is the first year when the Captain 's Prize is mentioned , as is the Caddies ' competition , which was probably as equally impressive in the quality of golf . |
| 23 | Interest rates had already been low for twenty years when the turnpike mania began in 1750 and remained low after it ended in 1772 . |
| 24 | After the financial troubles of that decade , though , a more businesslike approach was taken so that reserves were kept back to cover for lean years when the weather proved to be unkind . |
| 25 | Today , South Africa play rugby in England for the first time in nearly 23 years when a line-up containing five current internationals faces the Midlands at Leicester 's Welford Road . |
| 26 | Carpet manufacturing in Kilmarnock had already been established for over 150 years when the company as we know today was formed in 19088 . |
| 27 | In that particular year when the research was carried out there were 2,000 boys in government training centres and one girl . |
| 28 | The circular gave an expression to a motion passed in the House of Commons in January of that year when the House , ‘ conscious of the need to raise educational standards at all levels ’ , regretted the separation of children into different types of secondary schools . |
| 29 | In Phanerozoic time ( the time which has elapsed since the beginning of the Cambrian ) there have been three such ice ages , separated by intervals of a few hundred million years when the world enjoyed a more equable climate and lacked extensive polar ice caps . |
| 30 | On a time-scale which may not coincide exactly with our present scientific calculations of geological time , they say that the cycle commences with a period of 1.7 million years when the power of the Life Force is immeasurably stronger and more evident in physical affairs than it is today . |