Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [verb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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1 | The G7 nations began pressing last year for international laws aimed at protecting the world 's forests , but North and South have remained divided over should foot the bill . |
2 | How the owners of these desirable residences had complained ten years ago when they found that the Garfield Centre was going to be built in their neighbourhood . |
3 | The first difficulties began to appear last year after the Mazowiecki government , without consulting the public or the parliament , decreed that children should be taught religion in schools , in effect making Catholicism close to a state religion . |
4 | Organisers hoped to break last year 's £22,000 record but a cloud hung over the event . |
5 | It was a curious mixture of determined work , for many undergraduates had lost five years or more , and of equally certain enjoyment , for the lost years had to be made up in other ways too . |
6 | Drivers and conductors had to wait three years , they had to be employed three years before they were accepted into the pension scheme but you know , believe me I 'm glad that I paid in for it . |
7 | Margaret Shepherd , whose cafe in Queen Street has for many years been popular with parties of elderly people , said many handicapped groups had cancelled this year because they could no longer walk straight from the cafe to the seafront . |
8 | The stern , slightly pained expressions on the saints ' white and pink faces seemed to reflect fifty years or more of having a brass trumpet sounding in their ears . |
9 | Digital cameras and digital video cameras began to appear last year . |
10 | Residents had to wait four years to elect their council after receiving that bill . |
11 | In 1939 many men and women went , as others had done 25 years before , to serve in the Army , the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force . |