Example sentences of "year [conj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or twelve that 's either two years or a year between them . |
| 2 | Specific schemes differ in their elements : for some final salary may be the best of the last three or five years or the average , or may be based on earnings as opposed to salary . |
| 3 | Being an intellectual or bourgeois did n't help that much in itself but those of their own journalists and professors they 'd sent to the remote prison island of their archipelago , Guru , had n't been systematically tortured ; just neatly excised from society for twenty years or the stay of their natural existences . |
| 4 | The age and sex profiles were similar to their family health services authority averages , although Denton Turret had 30% more patients aged over 65 years than the authority average ( Denton Turret 1300 , authority average 910 ) . |
| 5 | For example , only three funds — Newton Income , Touche Remnant City of London and Britannia Life American Growth — achieved higher returns over five years than the £162 that could have been obtained without risk by placing £100 in the building society . |
| 6 | As our pictures show , careful make-up and styling can take off more years than the surgeon 's knife . |
| 7 | While no longer under oath to abide by the rules and pray every day for their benefactor , the present tenants no doubt are thankful for their rent and rate-free accommodation , their free central heating and laundry and , though the gentlemen no longer receive a new suit every two years nor the ladies a new frock , they do receive a visit from the wardens and the clerk at Christmas bearing a small monetary gift . |
| 8 | It had been literally years once the Shah had drive men in the streets of Teheran . |
| 9 | Specific and lengthy training — usually over a period of years so the non-committed will fall by the wayside . |
| 10 | It has become clear over the years that a level of formality is required for fair and impartial decision making , though it is equally clear that proper decision making does not always require ritual conduct or observance of the formal rules of evidence . |
| 11 | er I 'm slightly worried about the effect on the Olympic movement of Atlanta being chosen only in the sense that er that this is the , I think the sixth time in 25 years that a North American city has got it and it does look rather as if the er pressures are now , on the financial side , are now coming very much from the North American continent and I 'm not at all sure that that 's really good for the Olympic movement . |
| 12 | It was the third time in recent years that a county match had been completed inside an August day at Old Trafford . |
| 13 | It became increasingly clear in the next two years that the change in leaders and policy had served only to weaken the Party still further . |
| 14 | During the six years that the Century Guild existed its output was modest , though its participation in public exhibitions gave it a considerable influence . |
| 15 | Sir John Wolfenden , the then vice-chancellor of Reading University , was chosen to be its Chairman , a job which he was to hold for the three years that the Committee took to produce its Report . |
| 16 | Looking back on years that the Yorks were together , it is easy to pick out the really bad moments that led to the complete breakdown of their marriage . |
| 17 | As I have said , we have seen enormous changes , but I advise my right hon. Friends on the Treasury Bench and all hon. Members who will continue to serve in Parliament in the coming years that the changes that have taken place in those countries in the past few years could well be repeated on an enormous scale in other countries . |
| 18 | The assault on Panama marks the second time in six years that the US has employed its military forces against a country in the hemisphere . |
| 19 | American Secretary of State Warren Christopher told delegates from more than 100 countries the largest human rights gathering for 25 years that the US rejected calls from some Asian and Middle East states for feebler standards . |
| 20 | Erm from there we went into this purpose built flat above a grocers shop , it was meant for the manager of the grocers shop , but he had better sense and so the flat became available for letting to the Borough Council who at the insistence of the owners of the house we were in , erm , were anxious to get their property back and so we found ourselves in a brand new flat , the first tenants , although this was not very highly to be recommended , you approached your flat up er stone staircase , er from the outside so you exposed to the elements er you then walked across the roof , flat roof over the shops until you came to your flat door , erm , Islington at that time was just beginning the , to see the influx of immigrants from the colonies as they were in those days and er , they in turn created much heavier demand on what little vacant property there was , so that the district rapidly deteriorated and for many people who were not in the fortunate position that we were found it necessary or desirable to leave because they were sharing rooms or sharing houses with people whose ways of life were different from theirs and this is something I think that housing authorities learnt to appreciate over the years that the differences between people 's ways of life are one of the major causes of social distress . |
| 21 | Over the years that The Women Artists Slide Library has been collecting and documenting the work of women artists it has become sensitised to the many issues around health and disability . |
| 22 | Next time , you , your daughter , your grand-daughter or just a neighbour is pregnant , you could think of the thirty-odd years that the NCT has spent safeguarding the interests of parents and babies , and you could get out your cheque book . |
| 23 | However , it became increasingly obvious during the next two years that the Ryder Report had been over optimistic about the market share of Leyland , and that even large injections of capital were insufficient to overcome the problems of poor labour relations , low productivity and entrenched attitudes . |
| 24 | It is on these years that the government 's historical reputation will surely be based . |
| 25 | Will the Secretary of State explain how he was able to commission a review of teaching methods in a matter of a few weeks , although his minimum standards — first laid down in 1981 — were not met in the 10 years that the Government allowed themselves , and the current review will not now report until the autumn ? |
| 26 | However small it was ( and whether it is just or not ) , I have felt over the years that the Halton experience has enabled me ( despite my background ) to bridge the gap between those far off days , and reaching the rank of sergeant pilot , and the mid-war years when , in a few months , there was swift passage through the roles of flight commander , squadron commander , staff officer and station commander . |
| 27 | It will be the first time in more than two years that the ANC leader has shared a platform with Chief Buthelezi . |
| 28 | It is only in the last hundred years that the West has taken a serious interest in exactly where the different Anatolian rugs were made . |
| 29 | The trial of Mr Subono and Mr Nugroho was the first time in many years that the law was used to try ‘ leftists ’ rather than Muslim activists . |
| 30 | Although the pied flycatcher 's adultery has been known about since 1950 , it is only in the last few years that the scientist Rauno Alatalo and his colleagues , studying pied flycatchers in Sweden , have begun to unravel the finer details . |