Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [verb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Research shows that a large percentage of known deserted settlements in England and Wales were deserted or began to decline 600–700 years ago . |
| 2 | Mo may just not care what gets said about the Company — it 's all the new team now — as long as he is n't caught saying it himself And if he gas blamed for some dirty work that got started fifteen years ago — and I doubt he was directly responsible ; he was too senior then — how much does it hurt him now ? |
| 3 | It struck a devastating blow at the presidency as an institution and gave powerful new impetus to the collapse of trust in government that had begun some years previously . |
| 4 | It was a different Wedding Present to the one that had toured two years earlier . |
| 5 | He was arraigned for heresy in 1457 , after publishing his The Repressor of Overmuch Blaming of the Clergy , ‘ A secular doctor of divinity , that had laboured many years to translate Holy Scripture into English , passing the bounds of divinity and of Christian belief . |
| 6 | The simplest one is the straight-line method , in which depreciation is recorded as a constant proportion of the original cost of the asset over its anticipated life ; for example , the depreciation on an asset costing 100 and expected to last five years will be 20 per year . |
| 7 | For example if the writing-down allowance ( rate of depreciation ) is 25 per cent , the depreciation on an asset costing 100 and expected to last five years is determined as follows : |
| 8 | Marilyn L. Harrell , one of the key figures in the HUD scandal , was sentenced on June 22 to three years and 10 months in prison , and ordered to serve three years ' probation and to pay $600,000 in restitution . |
| 9 | He patted a paunch that had swelled considerably since Gentle had last seen him , and was testing the seams of his shirt , which , like him , was florid and had seen better years . |
| 10 | Karen had dipped badly in her A-levels and had done two years in a commerce school before she 'd been accepted for her degree course . |
| 11 | He had , however , spent two years in a British prisoner of war camp in Germany in 1945-47 and had served seven years of a 10-year sentence imposed by a British military court in 1947 for lesser crimes committed in Germany . |
| 12 | He said the company had not called on shareholders for funds since 1985 and had spent recent years chasing funds to build up income producing assets . |
| 13 | However , despite suffering a minor heart attack 15 years ago , Len from Fressingfield , Suffolk , said he felt as ‘ fit as a fiddle ’ and intended to make next year 's drop . |
| 14 | The only other person in the bar was an old inhabitant of Cobham and during our conversation I mentioned that my beat-grandfather once lived in Cobham but had died many years before I was born . |