Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [art] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wales ’ oldest and deepest mine is at Blaenavon , known as Big Pit , closed as a colliery in 1980 after a hundred years of production . |
| 2 | The pattern of press reporting of rape trials is quite different in 1985 from the previous years we had studied — 1951 , 1961 , 1971 and 1978 . |
| 3 | This is all logical enough given Fforde 's conviction that collectivism comes from ‘ areas other than the British Conservative party ’ , but Fforde seems to forget that the Conservatives were in power for fifty-five of the 100 years from the dawn of collectivism to the edge of Thatcherism , and must , therefore , have been at least partly responsible for some of Keith Joseph 's ‘ detritus ’ . |
| 4 | The report could guide UK chemistry teaching into the 21st century , yet it allows children to be taught without atoms or molecules for eight of the 11 years that it covers . |
| 5 | — CONSETT Number One Central Club 's chairman Jim Harris has headed the management team for 21 of his 26 years in the boardroom and treasurer Jimmy Hope has been treasurer for eight of the 11 years he has been on the committee . |
| 6 | 17.14 During the early years of the secondary school , and as they grow into adolescence , pupils will increasingly be able to take a more objective view and develop greater understanding of the writing process . |
| 7 | I spent six of the happiest years of my life at a boarding school where the regime was spartan . |
| 8 | The United Kingdom Meteorological Office announced at the end of November 1989 that the 1980s had been the warmest decade worldwide since records had been kept , with six out of 10 of the warmest years since the mid-19th century having occurred during this period . |
| 9 | The Independent chapel at Bullhouse had been erected by Elkanah Rich of Bullhouse Hall in 1692 in the early years of religious toleration and in 1786 another Independent chapel had been established 2 miles away at Netherfield , where the services were much more evangelical in tone . |
| 10 | Brewer and co-workers ( 1988 ) report that , in 1981 alone , 30,000 rounds of plastic bullets were fired , compared with 55,000 in the 5 years up to 1975 . |
| 11 | ‘ People here live long , ninety to a hundred years . |
| 12 | By the next general election ( say 1 991 ) the Conservatives will have been in office for sixteen of the twenty-one years since 1970 . |
| 13 | It also includes people who were resident in the United Kingdom on or after 10 December 1974 and in not less than 17 of the 20 years of assessment ending with the year of assessment in which the relevant time falls ( see IHTA 1984 , s267 ) . |
| 14 | What planning should he undertake with respect to inheritance tax — bearing in mind that under the deemed domicile provisions in IHTA 1984 , s267(1) the taxpayer is deemed to be domiciled in the United Kingdom if he was so domiciled three years immediately preceding his death or he was resident in the United Kingdom in not less than 17 of the 20 years of assessment ending with the year of assessment in which the death occurs ? |
| 15 | Of the 8 experienced geologists in post after the war only M. Macgregor , Richey and Wilson were on the Scottish staff in 1931 and the last named had been in England for 5 of the intervening years . |
| 16 | The Kaszubians came under strong pressure to Germanise under Frederick the Great , and again under Wilhelm II in the early years of the Reich . |
| 17 | Altogether between 1250 and 1435 over sixteen thousand excommunicates were notified to chancery , and of these almost three thousand occur in the decade 1275–84 and another two thousand in the remaining years of the century . |
| 18 | In the unblinking black eyes were a thousand upon a thousand years of survival . |
| 19 | Other world-wide eustatic causes of sea level change include sedimentary infilling of ocean basins which could give a sea level rise of 4 mm/100 years equivalent to 40 m in a million years ( Higgins , 1965 ) ; orogenic eustasy whereby orogenic uplift creates ocean basins of different size ; geoidal eustasy whereby the ocean surface reflects the variations in the geoid surface due to the earth 's irregular distribution of mass which can give a difference between lows and highs of as much as 180 m . |
| 20 | He will be fifty in a few years ’ time . |
| 21 | The recent excesses of the financial world inevitably invite comparisons with the 1930s , when share prices fell by two-thirds in the five years following the Great Crash of 1929 . |
| 22 | BR investment is forecast at £5 billion in the five years to March 1994 , about double the rate of the past five years . |
| 23 | However , the combination of rising amounts of dollars held abroad ( dollar liabilities ) and falling US gold stocks ( $7½ billion over the eight years ) meant that by 1968 the US gold stock could hardly have repaid 40 per cent of the dollars held abroad in reserves . |
| 24 | That would entail providing half a million people a day with new or better services , The cost : between $300 billion over the 10 years . |
| 25 | Employment in construction rose by two-thirds over the six years , increasing its share of nonagricultural employment by more than half a million . |
| 26 | The town was occupied by the Austrians in 1548 , and besieged by the Swedes in 1633 during the Thirty Years War . |
| 27 | In fact the population of Great Britain only increased by about four millions during the inter-war years , about half the level of growth which might have been expected had the rate of growth of the late nineteenth century continued . |
| 28 | The NME darts team vs Radio 1 during the Flared Years . |
| 29 | ICI 's HC dividend cover from 1973 to 1987 averaged three times ; but ICI 's CPP earnings have not fully covered the dividend paid in 16 of the 17 years since 1975 . |
| 30 | Since Mrs Thatcher 's first victory in 1979 , the country had enjoyed ‘ 13 of the finest years in history ’ . |