Example sentences of "[num] year [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In previous years the selection of the carnival queen had been organised by elimination contests in the town and surrounding villages , but 30 years ago the committee asked that young ladies should send in a copy of a recent photograph . |
| 2 | However , over 30 years ago the theorist Paul Dirac suggested the possible existence of particles carrying single magnetic poles or ‘ charges ’ — in other words , magnetic monopoles . |
| 3 | 2 years ago the total was just under 8,000 . |
| 4 | Forty years ago the Theatre Collection was founded as a research centre for staff and students in the Drama Department . |
| 5 | Forty years ago the population was under 20,000 but now it is seven times that . |
| 6 | Forty years ago the population was under 20,000 but now it is seven times that . |
| 7 | Forty years later the islet of old Jaimeni appeared . |
| 8 | Forty years earlier the promise of town planning was that it could address the urban housing problems of the day , but the principles of environmental regulations were now seen to relate to a quite different set of questions : the problems of regional economic development . |
| 9 | ‘ And yet six years ago the music of the sidh was heard in Ireland again , Fergus . ’ |
| 10 | Six years ago The Economist thought about introducing a face called Excelsior Insertio into the paper . |
| 11 | Six years ago the practice was prohibited . |
| 12 | Six years later the traveller and writer Eric Newby had a chance meeting with Thesiger in the Hindu Kush . |
| 13 | For six years following the adoption in November 1927 by the PCF Central Committee of the " class against class " tactic , the party followed an increasingly doctrinaire , Bolshevik course . |
| 14 | About 10 years ago the use of ml and l for millilitres and litres respectively was banished suddenly from British Standards in favour of mL and L , though both are permitted as alternatives by the ISO standard dealing with the layout of standards . |
| 15 | That kind of rise has helped to push the average purse available on the tour next year up to £340,000 , whereas 10 years ago the prize fund for the Open Championship was only £200,000 . |
| 16 | 10 years ago The game show 3–2–1 had a Spinechillers theme , which was hardly surprising when you consider that the guests included Mike Read and Dave Lee Travis , two DJs guaranteed to send a shiver of shock up anyone 's spine . |
| 17 | Yet 8,000 years ago the sea stood 25–50 ft ( 8–15 m ) higher than it is today . |
| 18 | Eight years later the Crown introduced into the Lords a bill concerning the authority and enforcement of proclamations . |
| 19 | Eight years ago the function of the auction houses changed from that of middlemen handling the occasional wonderful contemporary collection like that of the Sculls to that of primary dealers in contemporary art . |
| 20 | Eight years ago the plant had 27 production controllers and nothing ever went out on time . |
| 21 | As has often been the case , it is the artists who are the forerunners of fashion , and fifty years later the world and his wife craved for Windermere . |
| 22 | About fifty years ago the price of sugar increased , and so the farmers changed from turnips as a fodder crop to sugarbeet . |
| 23 | Fifty years ago the region seemed critical to British imperial interests . |
| 24 | Eleven years later the World Federation of the Deaf at the seventh Congress in Washington awarded him an International Solidarity Merit Award , and Gallaudet College , taking advantage of his presence made him the first recipient of a medallion for " outstanding international service to the deaf " , which he received at a special convention attended by the Vice-President of the United States . |
| 25 | Watson 's 1844 plan shows at least twenty-eight thatched buildings , but eleven years later the town had only two . |
| 26 | Three years ago the Government promised all food workers would be trained . |
| 27 | Three years ago the Government recognised the growing problem for people on low and moderate incomes who could no longer get legal aid . |
| 28 | Three years ago the chairman of that company had a salary of £46,000 . |
| 29 | Three years ago the Church also called upon adult education lecturer Dr Norman Todd to run a series of induction courses for bishops . |
| 30 | A happy precedent already exists : three years ago the Academy agreed to abandon a series of spelling changes that it had proposed in 1975 , but which had never found their way into common usage . |