Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [art] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | The match was a a personal triumph for Wigan 's Test half-back Shaun Edwards ; for in collecting his 18th medal he became the most decorated player in the club 's history , overtaking the late and great forward of the post-war years , Ken Gee . |
| 2 | This period — the most glittering episode of the golden years — illustrates the fundamental dynamics of the boom particularly well because it shows them in operation in top gear and with enormous effect . |
| 3 | A ten thousand pounds reward has been offered to help catch the killer of a seventy year old pensioner . |
| 4 | A reward of six hundred and fifty pounds is being offered to help track down the killer of a seventy-six year old man . |
| 5 | It seemed to have the knack of attracting some of the most bizarre characters who spent a great deal of the inter-war years building up little empires for themselves with scant regard for any overall espionage policy . |
| 6 | Dougal turned back , hoping to confirm the theory by finding a mention of the new year . |
| 7 | • This 33 lb 12 oz pike was the result of a two year campaign at a Nottinghamshire gravel pit by Mansfield miner David Dare . |
| 8 | The new set of ‘ guiding principles ’ are the result of a three year accident programme , begun in 1988 , to strengthen national and international policies in this area . |
| 9 | The report , the result of a three year survey and third in a series named Seabirds at Sea , found that more than half of the world 's total number of breeding pairs of Manx shearwater , puffin , gannet and black guillemot live off the west coast of Scotland and in the Irish Sea . |
| 10 | His spoken English was perfect , as was his comprehension , the result of a few years at Oxford studying languages — four in all . |
| 11 | Edward G. Robinson had been good in the previous year 's Little Caesar and there was to be great acclaim for the explicitness of the following year 's Scarface but it was Cagney 's 1931 performance in The Public Enemy that occasioned the most significant debate . |
| 12 | 29 year old Steven Mynott was sentenced to life in 1980 for the murder of a 54 year old man . |
| 13 | As an analysis of the nature of the child in the primary years and of the way children learn , the Plowden Report ranks as the most detailed study of the early years of schooling ever produced . |
| 14 | Anxiety about in-law relationships , and evidence that some considerable adjustment can be necessary , is found also in Mansfield and Collard 's ( 1988 ) study of the early years of marriage . |
| 15 | Perhaps the confusion of the adolescent years of change would be brought into a proper perspective . |
| 16 | The article criticised the ‘ hopeless confusion of the post-war years ’ which had created the risk ‘ that in incompetent hands this country may go drifting on either towards a sharp crisis which might have revolutionary consequences , or to dictatorship , or perhaps worse still to gradual decline … |
| 17 | The ladies ' final was a repeat of the previous year 's fixture with Mutineers ( defending champions ) playing St Albans . |
| 18 | Pre-tax profits , however , fell from £285,000 to £56,000 as the company saw no repeat of the previous year 's big investment gain . |
| 19 | There must be something in this : when morning came , amid some laughter , my husband re-enacted the closing chapter of the old year by going up into the rafters and suspending himself through the hole so that I could take photographs . |
| 20 | It was a theme that was to be taken up by mediators between the two kingdoms until the outbreak of the Hundred Years War . |
| 21 | We have no other details of this aspect of Anglo-French relations before the outbreak of the Hundred Years War . |
| 22 | The outbreak of the Hundred Years War itself was not unconnected with intrigues on behalf of men such as Robert of Artois in which northern Frenchmen had important vested interests . |
| 23 | Though the official figures are not easy to interpret it seems that at the outbreak of the Seven Years War about half its manpower was drawn either from the jails of London and other cities or from the crews of foreign ships . |
| 24 | From the General Staffs ’ point of view , there were some bright patches in the otherwise sombre overcast of the last years of the 1950s . |
| 25 | He had gone there expecting ‘ to suffer the tedium of a few years living in the backveld , in order to make some very necessary repairs to the fortunes of myself and my small family ’ but found that ‘ against all expectations I had wandered into a bewilderingly interesting , exciting and varied World ’ . |
| 26 | As one of the first members recalled , ‘ When we reached thirteen most of us felt we were too big for the Sunday School , and there was a gap of a few years until we were able to join the YMCA at seventeen … |
| 27 | Because I think it was Tommy that said it was really after the one finished and there was nothing else round about that there was a gap of a few years and then you got started again here . |
| 28 | One effect of the Ottoman years was to leave Greeks preternaturally suspicious of government , any government . |
| 29 | Led by lively frontman Steven Tyler , the band have enjoyed a remarkable resurgence in recent years thanks to the mega-selling ‘ Pump ’ album of a few years back and several hit singles , including ‘ Rag Doll ’ , ‘ Love In An Elevator ’ , ‘ Janie 's Got A Gun ’ and ‘ Livin' On The Edge ’ . |
| 30 | A quick spin of his ‘ Sweet Freedom — The Best Of ’ compilation album of a few years back is proof enough that he has had many hits in his home patch without making similar in-roads here . |