Example sentences of "[is] [verb] [adv prt] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | A useful starting point is to go back twenty years to a time when computers were still huge , unfriendly devices demanding air-conditioned environments and costing millions . |
| 2 | They were going to London for some weeks : they have friends in high places , you know , and the eldest Miss Bretton-Fawcett , the daughter you know , is to come out next year . |
| 3 | He subsequently er went to work at the Berlick in latter years and , and this man was just sweeping-up at the Berlick and I could n't believe it cos he was so high up in the technology in the war and he 'd be a dental mechanic and he 'd come down to just being a sweeper-up , and he used to show me the pay packets he 'd got in the war and you know it was fantastic money even , even by today 's standards this is going back fifteen years |
| 4 | The paper versions ( hard copy ) are extremely difficult to search through systematically , particularly if the search is to extend over several years . |
| 5 | So er oh thi , this is finishing off last years , I ai n't started on this years yet ! |
| 6 | He 's coming back next year , is n't he ? ’ |
| 7 | While the men 's event appears wide open , the women 's raced is centred around last year 's winner , Rosa Mota , from Portugal . |
| 8 | A good system for storing electricity will not become possible before 1995 , Meanwhile , the date for artificial intelligence is shunted back 20 years to 2020 and the time for weather control is 2030 instead of 2015 , All kinds of obstacles , not so much technological as human and economic , have interfered with the 1962 predictions , as with many others that people have made with seemingly unimpeachable authority over the past 50 years . |