Example sentences of "and [adj] years [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Colombo-to-Kandy line was completed in 1868 , and fifty years later there was an extensive network which included a coastal line from Puttalam to Matara and which linked Colombo with Anuradhapura , Kurunagala , Matale , Badulla and Ratnapura . |
| 2 | is the knowledge that if er , we 'd been talking about them two hundred and fifty years ago we 'd be put on trial and probably burnt to death . |
| 3 | Travel agents are now a familiar sight in towns and cities across the world but one hundred and fifty years ago there were very few . |
| 4 | One hundred and fifty years ago it did not exist , but at the opening of the present decade the UK alone claimed to generate a thousand new jobs a week in the travel and tourism sector . |
| 5 | Okay , yeah better transport technology a hundred and fifty years ago it was impossible t erm , to transport meat across the Atlantic it 's er , very straightforward now so the advent of different types of , er , transport technology and improved transport technology erm , has made tr , facilitated trade okay . |
| 6 | So a hundred and fifty years ago you would have the stagecoach going past here . |
| 7 | Nice to speak to you , erm , I 'd just like to say that er , take me now as a , as a normal chap from England who looked across right through his life at Russia as the big bad bear and eight years ago I had the opportunity of going over there , just an ordinary chap and er , of course , there 's so much about the Soviet Union we do n't know , we did , we , erm , for instance we were over there in 1982 when they were celebrating sixty years of the incorporation of the saints into the Soviet Union . |
| 8 | So extensive did his collection become that he built a special picture gallery at Northwick Park in 1832 , and some years later he acquired Thirlestane House in Cheltenham , the 1846 guide to which listed over 500 pictures . |
| 9 | The thirteen children who developed schizophrenia could be characterised by the following factors : their birth had been relatively difficult ( longer and more complicated than average ) ; most of them had been separated from both parents and many placed in children 's homes at a young age ; they posed a disciplinary problem to their teachers ; and some years earlier they had had a rapid autonomic nervous system ( ANS ) recovery rate . |
| 10 | Thirty and Forty years ago they played to packed houses up and down the country … now they 're doing it again |
| 11 | Sex had brought them together , bound them through the difficult and dangerous years when he was actively opposing the authorities . |
| 12 | She married solicitor , David Ashby in 1974 , and six years later they parted . |
| 13 | However , his reign was to be a short one , for in 1191 he contracted a serious illness , and six years later he died . |
| 14 | When , on 1 January 1766 , the Old Pretender died in Rome , aged 77 , his elder son assumed the title of Charles III and six years later he at last married , but his wife bore no children . |
| 15 | ‘ And 10 years when he goes to senior school , 20 years maybe , when he is getting married . |
| 16 | France were not part of the tournament in 1892 , and 100 years later I would be reluctant to predict precisely what their impact will be this time round , Villepreux or no ! |
| 17 | Lean times were to follow and three years later we find him using the backs of sheets of his Jedburgh map to draw a privately commissioned plan . |
| 18 | In 1949 , on the strength of his military experience , he was appointed to the Ministry of Defence ; and three years later he was seconded to the UK Delegation to Nato . |
| 19 | When he was eleven he attended Dartford Grammar School , and three years later he went to Tonbridge School , where his main interests continued to centre on literature and the natural world . |
| 20 | In 1957 he was appointed relief manager for their branches throughout London and three years later he became their Holloway branch manager , moving to Ilford as the manager in 1963 and on to Southend-on-Sea as depot manager in 1973 . |
| 21 | The father-of-three became chairman of the Bar Council in 1972 and three years later he was made a High Court Judge and was immediately appointed to the Chancery Division . |
| 22 | As a student at Cambridge he played squash for the University and three years ago he was set to take up stock car racing . |
| 23 | And 18 years later he was still there , serving as equerry to the Maharajah of Rewa . |
| 24 | Rob Wilson 's courtesy and kindness is legendary and many years ago he indirectly helped my mother to hook her first salmon . |
| 25 | And 10,000 years ago they left apple remains to carbonize around their Swiss and Italian lakeside homes . |
| 26 | And ten years ago he had been hurt worst of all when the Zionist Air Force , the E-16s and the E-15s , had come to Tuwaithah out of the setting sun to put down 16 tons of explosive ordnance onto the Osirak reactor . |
| 27 | I went to Grenoble and discovered they had a small project on the outskirts , which had been a piece of wasteland ; they ploughed it all down , replanned it , had a complete new housing estate , hotel , the lot , in less than five years , where the City Council would be thinking about which bit of land to use , what to put there , how to do it , and ten years later they might think about producing a plan , and ten years after that ( that 's twenty years on ) something would appear . |
| 28 | Moreover , it broadcast only for about four hours each evening ; and ten years later it was still on air only 60 per cent as much as BBC1 . |
| 29 | In 1871 he was described as farmer of 20 acres and ten years later he had 28 acres . |
| 30 | And 50 years later I remain convinced of this . |