Example sentences of "years [adv] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three years on from the first album , Neneh admits that ‘ the till bells are ringing empty . |
| 2 | Indeed , they boasted proudly that retail electricity prices had risen more slowly than the retail price index in general : although their own tariffs had risen faster , average consumption had gone up and the extra kWh had been sold at the lower incremental charges of two-part or block tariffs , thus bringing the average domestic price in their first ten years down by a fifth in real terms . |
| 3 | Today 's bright and open classrooms with their informal furniture seem light years away from the first school in which I taught . |
| 4 | The commission was paid on a reducing basis so a substantial amount of commission was paid in respect of the premium paid in the first policy year and a lower commission in subsequent years up to the tenth year . |
| 5 | Now , twelve years later in the first province-wide ‘ beauty show ’ , the majority of Ulster unionists chose Ian Paisley as their spokesman . |
| 6 | Militant anti-war protest has ( with the possible exception of the early 1980s ) never been so widespread in Britain as it was in the years immediately before the Second World War . |
| 7 | The story takes place at an unspecified date but clearly in the years immediately before the First World War . |
| 8 | Social hygiene took off in the years immediately before the First War as part of the growing debate over national health and efficiency . |
| 9 | In the years immediately after the Second World War , the particular concerns of old age became a subject for serious social investigation for the first time . |
| 10 | I was pleased to renew friendships made over two years ago at the First Congress of Black Catholics , and it was a joy to be again in a crowd of African , Afro-Caribbean and Asian Catholics where for once I was not the only black face in a sea of white ones . |
| 11 | The previous hat-trick was achieved 60 years ago by the 1st Btn . |
| 12 | There was a lot more tetanus , but no more than was carried in here fifty years ago in the First War . |
| 13 | Relations were eased somewhat by the visit on April 25 , 1990 , of Margaret Thatcher , the UK Prime Minister , who participated in official remembrance ceremonies marking the Gallipoli campaign 75 years earlier during the First World War . |