Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prevalence of cimetidine use around 1979 — that is , the proportion of the population using cimetidine anytime in the period 1977–81 — was calculated in 10 year age groups using population data of 1 January 1980 , and the prevalence of use of ulcer drugs around 1989 was similarly calculated using population data of 1 January 1990 . |
| 2 | The trial was halted after one year instead of the planned three after 20 per cent of patients taking only zidovudine died compared with only 10 per cent of those taking a ‘ cocktail ’ of zidovudine and acyclovir . |
| 3 | The battle was on , and was to continue for another year . |
| 4 | Robert had been called up in the First Militia , as it was named , the beginning of National Service which was to continue until some years after the war ended . |
| 5 | IT IS NEARLY TWO YEARS SINCE ICI Chemicals & Polymers was formed on New Year 's Day in 1987 as a new group within ICI responsible for about a third of the Group 's total assets and turnover . |
| 6 | The present Soviet economic system was formed in these years ; Mr Gorbachev and his colleagues , in endeavouring to reform the USSR , are deliberately seeking to build on the strengths and eliminate the weaknesses of the traditional system . |
| 7 | Seventy-two per cent of those who had previously worked were currently unemployed as a direct result of their heroin use : 17 were dismissed for continual lateness and/or absenteeism ; two were dismissed for theft from work to finance their habit ; two lost their jobs when they were imprisoned for burglary or possession of heroin ; one was dismissed after two years of illness related to his drug use ; and one went bankrupt trying to support his habit . |
| 8 | This judicial readiness to sanction rescue was revised in post-war years in the light of Bowlby 's work on maternal deprivation . |
| 9 | Tainted by the worst recession in 60 years , a record 1.05 million people out of work and a perception that Labor was fatigued after ten years in office , few had expected Mr Keating to scrape in . |
| 10 | The duration of copyright protection was limited to 15 years if the design was registrable ; that is , it was new and had eye-appeal . |
| 11 | ‘ The only mistake we made was to wait for four years before trying to sort out our lives , ’ Julius replied in an unruffled tone . |
| 12 | The relatively simple geology of the Orkneys was completed in 3 years and the memoir appeared in 1935 . |
| 13 | The accounts presented to Parliament , in the form of Estimates and Appropriation Accounts , are statements of cash receipts and payments during a year regardless of whether they are in respect of current or capital expenditure and , if current , whether benefit of the related goods and services was received during that year . |
| 14 | A Devon labourer who promised his mother not to marry in her lifetime , finally married only at the age of 51 : ‘ bugger , we was courting for seventeen year . |
| 15 | A pool , still empty , was filled with last year 's yellowing leaves from a nearby orange tree . |
| 16 | It was flown for six years by the Canadians before it was sold as surplus in late 1947 by the War Assets Corporation . |
| 17 | The conceptual basis for LIFESPAN was developed during 10 years of long lifetime software production and issue . |
| 18 | The Avalon bathroom was developed after three years ' extensive research into the difficulties associated with ageing . |
| 19 | Knowles , who was sacked after 14 years with BR , was fined £150 plus £30 costs after admitting being drunk at work . |
| 20 | In the east , many old Dwarf holds were cleared out , and the power of the Orcs was broken for many years . |
| 21 | One site with which the author was involved was delayed for two years , with constant revision to the proposed design . |
| 22 | The JET project was delayed for several years in the 1970s , while the council of ministers vacillated between giving the project to ISPRA , Garching in West Germany and Culham . |
| 23 | The following year Robinson founded the Garden and edited it until 1899 , when he was succeeded for two years by Gertrude Jekyll [ q.v. ] , his lifelong friend . |
| 24 | In 1884 he was articled for three years to the architect Robert Edis . |
| 25 | On route from Kilham to Lowthorpe , the heavy stone base of the cross fell off at Ruston Parva and embedded itself in the verge side there , from where it was rescued in recent years and now stands on Ruston Parva village green . |
| 26 | Horse racing 's decline was deepened by last year 's collapse in bloodstock values . |
| 27 | Zinoviev , presiding over the Congress , blurred these differences and declared that just as the Russian Communist party was assisting the Chinese communists , so the French and Dutch parties should take care of Indonesia and Indo-China ; a curiously neo-colonialist policy which was to persist for several years . |
| 28 | This story , which embodied fierce resentment against the unfairness of things , was carried through seventy years and three generations , and all of them , all the good women , dissolved into the figure of my mother who was , as she told us , a good mother . |
| 29 | The final dividend , payable on July 1 , was slashed from last year 's 1.5p to 0.9p . |
| 30 | The Coventry leg , the second of the LTA 's 1991/2 Junior Winter Indoor Circuit , was won by 17 year old Karen Cross , from Devon , her first 18 and under title . |