Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [verb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Discussions over the Chevron deal had started four years previously , and were renewed when the collapse of the Soviet Union in December 1991 allowed control over natural resources to pass to individual republics . |
| 2 | Today 's results show that many teenagers have been hit by the recession , with the average pocket money received falling this year . |
| 3 | The settlement was already declining by 1340 , with sheep flocks one-third of those the village had boasted forty years earlier . |
| 4 | When the heir to the Spencer earldom got married three years ago , Guppy was his best man . |
| 5 | Germany 's trade surplus with the rest of the European Community did shrink last year , to DM65 billion ( $40 billion ) from DM94 billion in 1989 . |
| 6 | Membership had brought several years of sustained economic growth , with a high level of foreign investment . |
| 7 | The fact that the American Civil War had lasted five years was overlooked or discounted . |
| 8 | I was accepted as part of the family , which consisted of two daughters and a grandfather , ; the husband had died many years before . |
| 9 | Her second husband had died Some years before , and now she lived with her son , George Grimsdale and his two young children in a large house at Windsor — 37 Victoria Cottages . |
| 10 | Peter de Savary 's crew discovered climbing last year , although it appears he off-loaded the place on another property speculator in the summer without bothering to tell anyone ! |
| 11 | On Nov. 18 the Supreme Court had ended 17 years of one-party rule by legalizing the opposition Democratic Front . |
| 12 | The background was that Stanley 's first wife had died six years previously , and Joan had been her best friend . |
| 13 | The waning of enthusiasm for higher education had begun several years before , but this was the first time there had been fewer applicants than places offered . |
| 14 | Here they discovered that their last great king had died several years previously , and still lay rotting in his widowed queen 's home . |
| 15 | Although work on the NEW DEVELOPMENT had begun several years before , with much champagne bottle breaking and blue ribbon cutting , nothing very much had happened since . |
| 16 | Later , Julia discovered that the German army in question had been in South Africa and that Colonel Scotland 's appointment had ended some years before the Great War . |
| 17 | Glyn 's father had retired two years ago and now Glyn had taken his place , working with Ned Clarke , who had been her mother 's solicitor , a rather dour , calm-faced man who always slightly worried Jenna . |
| 18 | His father had died that year . |
| 19 | Disguised as a courier , Charles made his way through a winter-gripped Europe to Savona , on the Gulf of Genoa , and thence , with fewer disasters than his father had encountered 30 years before , to Antibes in the south of France . |
| 20 | When an apprentice , after leaving school at thirteen , my father had spent several years as a striker — using a sledgehammer . |
| 21 | A Sikh woman from Jullunder , recently arrived in Britain , described what her feelings had been when her daughter got married six years ago . |
| 22 | It 's a great introduction and , combined with the two-on-one US import of ‘ GP/Grievous Angel ’ CD , it lets you hear how profoundly moving country music managed to get 20 years back . |
| 23 | She wanted Boy to know that for all the book 's nine hundred and forty-eight pages the author had seen fit to devote only one ambiguous and insignificant paragraph to the fact that this great man had lived forty-one years of his public life accompanied everywhere by a handsome and dedicated working-class servant . |
| 24 | But Folly had spent twenty-three years being told that she rushed into things too fast , and she was n't about to let it get to her now . |
| 25 | My position on the whole thing started to wobble last year when I had some reflexology ( a foot massage ) which made me more relaxed than I 've felt for years . |
| 26 | Daisy 's face above the frayed collar of her old black coat had shed ten years . |
| 27 | Clearly Adalard 's influence was great ( Nithard was not alone in identifying Ermentrude as " Adalard 's niece " rather than as the daughter of Count Odo of Orléans , Adalard 's brother-in-law , though an obvious reason could have been that Odo had died eight years before , perhaps leaving Ermentrude in her uncle 's care ) . |
| 28 | It was pointed out that the education budget had grown each year since 1988 and that for 1991 it again exceeded the defence budget . |
| 29 | The communications link had taken two years to pioneer , in situ long before a road or railway . |
| 30 | Imagine then , how you would feel if your income had shrunk each year to the point where you could now buy little more than half what you could in 1970 . |