Example sentences of "year [art] [adj] [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In its early years the new police force had poor relations with headmen , and there is no indication of any general decline in crime at this time . |
| 2 | Then he put through a bill to suspend for five years the Seven Hours Act , which had restricted maximum daily hours for the coal industry since 1919 , following the Eight Hours Act of 1908 . |
| 3 | Here is what Norman Burtt , for over 30 years the public relations manager at Lever Brothers , has to say about what you need to be a company PR manager : 1Total honesty — with your employers , your staff , your " public " and the media . |
| 4 | For many years the large consumer-goods enterprise that is the subject of Case 2 had a virtual monopoly on its products . |
| 5 | In recent years a major balance-of-payments crisis had been prevented only by assistance from foreign governments and loans from multinational institutions ( particularly the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank ) . |
| 6 | Yet each year the Equal Opportunities Commission receives between 700–800 enquiries relating to pregnancy dismissals . |
| 7 | This year the National Schools Collage Competition , sponsored by the Woolwich Building Society , takes the theme ‘ Streetwise ’ . |