Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [verb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kenny Scharf belongs to a group of East Village artists which came to notice ten years ago and included Keith Haring and Jean Michel Basquiat . |
| 2 | The company , which returned to profit last year following a rigorous re-structuring programme ( CI No 2,010 ) , saw a sharp improvement in its continental European operations where revenues grew 17% , taking into account the fall in sterling . |
| 3 | Miller frequently mentions Sherard 's contributions to Chelsea , among them Phlomis orientalis , Jerusalem sage , completely destroyed by the great frost of 1740 and P. flavescens , which managed to survive many years in a warm border . |
| 4 | What name have you given to the Water Hen which migrates to us yearly — or which did migrate last year and the year before . |
| 5 | As he says of himself at that juncture in his career , his quitting in Monaco was ‘ the climax to a situation which had existed all year , stemming … basically from a lack of interest and enthusiasm ’ . |
| 6 | It sounds as if an officious enumerator was at work in 1861 ; he insisted on the full name Clementina rather than the pet form Clemmey , which had sufficed ten years earlier . |
| 7 | An annual subscription of £21 to the funds of Bedford County Hospital was sanctioned , thereby bringing to an end the disagreement which had begun 10 years earlier . |
| 8 | The Catholic Church announced on Nov. 27 the closure of its Solidarity Vicariate , the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1978 , which had devoted 18 years to defending the victims of political repression . |
| 9 | Thus ended an era of electric street transport in Croydon which had lasted sixty years . |
| 10 | When Sir Eric was appointed Rector in 1985 everyone was congratulating themselves that the financial squeeze on the universities , which had lasted 15 years , was now at an end and that stable funding was just around the corner . |
| 11 | It was the first time that many of the sales force had seen the new range , which had taken one year to develop and would be launched into the market place within the next few weeks . |
| 12 | Therefore , in addition to specifically charged items , one could recover 24 hours ' general perusals on litigation which had taken 2 years from issue of writ to trial . |
| 13 | If whatever happened to Summerchild that year had n't happened — if he had n't been found lying with the garbage in Spring Gardens — if Millie had n't stopped playing in the orchestra — if I 'd gone on seeing her week by week — grown up with her — become easy with her — married her — then Timmy would still have a mother at home . |
| 14 | Pearce 's words when the six policemen had vanished had reminded him about Jimmy Devlin and his bizarre story of what had happened two years ago . |
| 15 | Ironically , in view of what had happened fifty years earlier , it was now the School 's success which precipitated the next crisis . |
| 16 | He said he 'd come to ask me if I would be prepared to explain to you what had happened five years ago . |
| 17 | Sometimes Ruth wished she had told Steve what had happened last year , the affair she had allowed to happen among the glitz and excitement of the Seville Expo , the fascinating Majorcan she had met and loved on sight . |
| 18 | What had happened three years ago to frighten the Constable so much ? |