Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [verb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1987 AMV invested in McBain Noel-Johnson , a design and advertising agency which Baulk helped found 20 years ago . |
| 2 | Technical advice from fellow Lancastrian John Spencer helped to land last year 's title and he is again in his corner . |
| 3 | The Jerusalem that Richard tried to capture 700 years ago is proof of that . |
| 4 | It was the day after Marie went missing four years ago . |
| 5 | A director once commented that Kiefer Sutherland had lived two years for every one that had passed . |
| 6 | Renault had decided two years previously to close the plant , with the loss of 4,000 jobs ; production was moved to more functional and efficient sites in north-east France . |
| 7 | Lord Mountbatten had spent ten years tirelessly promoting the dream , talking about it all over the world , often in the highest places , inspiring everyone around him and shamelessly raising money to build more colleges . |
| 8 | As Suez had occurred twenty-four years earlier and as both Eden and Mountbatten were dead , it seemed to me that Sir Robert 's arguments were nonsensical . |
| 9 | That was in 1977 and Hope had to wait two years before making his second attempt . |
| 10 | Although Iceland had changed some years before to driving on the right , the bus which was well past its sell-by date — was right-hand drive ; the first bit of England I had seen for three weeks . |
| 11 | By 1898 national interest had been aroused and the British Institute of Undertakers was formed , succeeding where the United Company of Undertakers had failed 160 years previously . |
| 12 | They settled in England after Frits had spent many years serving in the Dutch Merchant Navy . |
| 13 | Sir Richard Sutton said it was the biggest meet the Cottesmore had seen that year . |
| 14 | Madeline had spent 20 years in education and childcare management and for the last 10 had been running nine nurseries for a charity in London . |
| 15 | Guntram had died three years earlier and , according to the seventh-century chronicler Fredegar , Sigibert 's son , Childebert II ( 575 – 96 ) took over his kingdom , thus uniting what had been the kingdom of Orléans , but which came to be known as the kingdom of Burgundy , with that of Rheims , or Austrasia . |
| 16 | Rather than remove these reminders of Glasgow 's past , the city 's planners wisely insisted that the facade survived not as a real building but almost as a museum exhibit whose Stones of Venice had appeared two years earlier . |
| 17 | In it was a single bed and also the cradle in which she and Jessie had lain many years ago . |
| 18 | Homebase avoided joining last year 's discount war initiated by Texas and B & Q. Instead we responded with a strong special offer programme supported by more regular national newspaper advertising and more aggressive point of sale material . |
| 19 | And Austicks described discounting this year as ‘ literally a non-event , at least in Yorkshire , with very few customers even mentioning the word ’ . |
| 20 | Mr Young started knitting 10 years ago . |
| 21 | Mrs Menzies had died five years before , killed by malaria and stomach trouble from their time in Bengal . |
| 22 | It was a chutzpah ; Zvi Lipsky had taken thirty years to build up his practice and reputation . |
| 23 | He adopted the same principle in the spandrels as William Edwards had used eight years before at Pontypridd ( q.v. ) , lightening the load with hollow tunnels through the rubble infilling . |
| 24 | Project Eden had eaten five years of his life , and spat them back at him , empty of meaning . |
| 25 | Norman Baillie-Stewart had suffered three years of bureaucratic delay while his application was passed from one office to another and back again . |
| 26 | Dr Whelan had spent three years at the Chester Beatty and had devoted herself to a detailed study of this particular Qur'an . |
| 27 | My parents , using mule transport , travelled to Addis Ababa through the Chercher mountains , by way of Harar , that ancient walled city which Burton had reached fifty-four years earlier . |
| 28 | It could not have been for lack of qualifications , for Moira had served seven years on the BBC 's General Advisory Council and four years as a director of Border Television ; so one can only assume it was because of my Liberal Party connections . |
| 29 | Against Darwin 's five years in Beagle , Wallace had spent four years exploring the Amazon basin , followed by eight years , largely alone , travelling throughout the Indonesian islands expressly seeking a solution to the evolutionary divergence of species . |
| 30 | AI Japan had spent several years planning the ICM , and Asia , s hosting of the event was appropriate in view of the organisation 's commitment to developing AI in that region . |