Example sentences of "[num] year [adv] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On November 8th , 194250 years ago to the day the British 1st Army and their American allies mounted a seaborne assault on the shores of North Africa . |
| 2 | My connections with the City are , as I have said , rather tenuous , but it is nearly six years ago to the day since our wedding , when yet again the traffic in the City was brought to a standstill . |
| 3 | ASTON VILLA manager Ron Atkinson last night heightened the tension surrounding today 's Premier League match of the day by pointing out that it is exactly six years ago to the day since Manchester United sacked him . |
| 4 | For six years up to the war , they had raised millions to help their German cousins and had absorbed over 60,000 refugees , not all of them living off charity by any means , but with the great majority owing thanks to Jewish organisations for giving them a new start . |
| 5 | It happened exactly 10 years ago to the day . |
| 6 | THREE years ago to the day , England last did battle with Argentina at Willesden in their second game in the World Cup . |
| 7 | As the Assembly rose to its feet ‘ amid shouts and tears ’ few of them would have realized that it was sixty years almost to the day since the Assembly of the Third Republic had responded in much the same way to the Tonkin crisis of 1885 . |
| 8 | I say the light on this about 11 years ago to the month . |
| 9 | Kiyonori Tomiyama , of Tokyo Metropolitan University , has studied a wild population of the African land snail Achatine fulica , which was introduced more than 50 years ago to the Ogsawara islands in the North Pacific . |
| 10 | It was found dead — again at the school — almost ten years later to the day . |
| 11 | In the five years up to the end of April , 1950 , the post-war housing programme had provided 686,018 permanent houses and flats in Great Britain . |
| 12 | The first review 's after ten years , then every five years up to the age of sixty five , then annually . |
| 13 | The first one at ten , every five years up to the age of sixty five , then annually , and there 's one at the end of the selected period . |
| 14 | From a wizened dried up body which was buried in the sand some 5000 years ago to the amazing unwrapped mummy of Ramses the Great , one of the most famous Egyptian pharaohs , Mummies and Magic has recreated and brought together for the first time in one exhibition , some of the most important Royal Mummies and funerary treasures . |
| 15 | The Duttons had come a hundred years before to the long straggling village of Sherborne in the archaically beautiful Borne Valley , where Thomas Dutton had built the original house of Sherborne Park in 1551 . |
| 16 | Trace the history of the world from 4500 million years ago to the present day . |
| 17 | Tomorrow Gooch is due to bequeath the bat with which he made 333 against India in the Test here two years ago to the Lord 's museum . |
| 18 | In 1954 Eyre became senior English master at Bromsgrove before moving two years later to the schools ' drama department at the BBC . |
| 19 | At any rate , he was in Denmark early in 1023 , making terms with Thorkell , whose position there had strengthened since his expulsion from England two years earlier to the extent that Cnut left it in his care and exchanged sons with him . |
| 20 | THE disaster was a bleak reminder of four years ago to the day , when a bombed Pan Am Jumbo crashed on the village of Lockerbie . |
| 21 | Although one of golf 's Great Triumvirate , along with Harry Vardon and J. H. Taylor — which dominated golf for 20 years up to the outbreak of the First World War — James Braid had an outstanding parallel career in golf architecture , although without any professional training . |
| 22 | Antwerp 93 's big art show is devoted to Jacob Jordaens , who was born 400 years ago to the year , and lived in Antwerp at the same time as Rubens and Van Dyck . |