Example sentences of "years [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And ten years later the Mantuan composer Alessandro Striggio ( c. 1535–c. 1595 ) , in order to hold together the forty parts of his four-choir motet ‘ Ecce beatam lucem ’ , devised a bassone or ‘ general bass ’ ‘ extracted from the lowest voices , to be played in the middle of the circle [ of performers ] by a trombone for the sustaining of the harmony with organ , lute and cembali or viols ’ . |
| 2 | Two years later the Liberal party organized a national testimonial for him and over £10,000 was raised . |
| 3 | At Cambuskenneth Abbey twelve years later the Scots Parliament was to swear allegiance to King Robert 's chosen successor , and a later king , James III , was to be buried here after his murder in 1488 . |
| 4 | Some years later the influential Republican senator , Robert Taft , was still exploiting the American belief that the British were " the best propagandists and the most unprincipled people " in the world when he accused Acheson , the then US secretary of state , of doing whatever the British asked him to do . |
| 5 | Five years later the industrial wasteland is a thriving mini-Docklands with homes , offices , roads , Victorian-style bridges and modern services . |
| 6 | In post-war years , from a maximum of 58 million passengers in 1950 , a steady decline has set in , so that 30 years later the annual total was only 8½ million . |
| 7 | Once the new house had been built is was often blocked in with a single course of concrete blocks and curiously enough today thirty five years later the modern method of building houses is to construct them all of wood and then surround them with a single course of concrete blocks . |
| 8 | Michael Shanks , author of the powerful Stagnant Society of 1961 , bitterly criticized fifteen years later the sterile failure of the planning imperative . |
| 9 | Two years later the Anglican Dean of Westminster , Arthur Stanley , gave a Discourse on what the Catacombs of Rome indicated about early Christian beliefs . |
| 10 | Two years later the first monuments were taken into care , and many more followed . |
| 11 | The field was discovered in 1974 and 10 years later the first gas flowed ashore . |
| 12 | He showed that five years later the dental health of children in Kilmarnock had deteriorated . |
| 13 | Three years later the Controller-General Necker created such an assembly , one-third of whose members were to be nominated by the king and the rest elected , for the province of Berry . |
| 14 | Some hundred years later the great revival of regional specialities is initiated by a band of patriotic French men of letters fearful that the post-1918 influx of tourists demanding international palace hotel food ( it is , alas , le classique which has opened the door to this dreariest of all styles of cooking ) wherever they go will end in the annihilation of the typical specialities of the provinces of France . |
| 15 | But two years later the earth-moving equipment to build the dams had still to arrive , and the bush-clearing programme , optimistically assigned to the Masai moran ( men of the warrior age-group ) , had made no progress at all . |
| 16 | Two years later the Russian wheat crop was halved for want of genetic resistance . |
| 17 | Three years later the Methodist minister , F. J. Jobson , who had trained as an architect , published a practical guide with the blessing of the Wesleyan Connexional authorities . |
| 18 | Apparently , some years later the whole story broke and Rod and the crew — those that survived the war — were awarded the Freedom of the Town of Boston . |
| 19 | Two years later the so-called sub-committee bill of rights In 1974 the Democratic caucus further decided that all standing committees with more than 20 members should have at least 4 sub-committees . |
| 20 | 20 years later the English publisher Vincent Novello and his wife Mary visited Salzburg where Constanze ( once again widowed ) and Mozart 's sister were both living . |
| 21 | Almost seventy years later the English envoy to Savoy was shipwrecked off the coast of Sardinia and very nearly drowned , with the loss of all his papers and equipage . |
| 22 | Five years later the Triennial Act imposed a limit of three years on the life of any Parliament ( it was raised to seven years by the Septennial Act of 1716 ) . |
| 23 | It was a wonderful experience for a small boy and seventy years later the lovely smell of the warm bakehouse is well remembered . |
| 24 | Seventeen years later the Congregational Union 's Executive called for a Nonconformist equivalent but nothing came of it . |
| 25 | Three years later the same person said : ’ I 'll tell you about the poll tax . |
| 26 | Two hundred years later the same law firm has been instrumental in the removal of tolls from Selby , one of Yorkshire 's most infamous toll bridges . |
| 27 | In 1801 the rural township of Everton contained only 499 people ; eighty years later the same area accommodated 109,812 inhabitants . |
| 28 | Sixteen years later the same workers failed to get equal pay at an industrial tribunal under the 1983 amended Equal Pay Act . |
| 29 | A hundred years later the same ideas were still widespread . |
| 30 | Some ten to fifteen years later the French eyewitness accounts were to be corroborated by their erstwhile enemies at the court of enquiry set up to determine the extent and nature of the pillage by the Prussian troops involved in the pursuit . |