Example sentences of "year [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After more than thirty years of such varied service she decided in the Autumn of 1987 on partial retirement , retaining for two more years merely the editorship of the newsletter and membership of the committee organising the centenary celebrations . |
| 2 | Over the coming years obviously the addition will be diluted as the graduates become the majority of our membership . |
| 3 | In 1895 the Congregational Chapel in Aylesbury agreed to repeat the Lord 's Prayer during Sunday services ; three years later the Church accepted a proposal from its younger members to have a vase of flowers in chapel during services and someone donated a vase . |
| 4 | Two years later the Union President , J. G. Greenhough , called up the old world to attack the new : he expounded traditional Calvinism with its high doctrine of church order although he accepted that it had ‘ little favour ’ in 1895 . |
| 5 | Ten years later the brewery embarked on a substantial redevelopment programme and rechristened the pub The Brown Trout ‘ to bring it more into keeping with Darlington ’ . |
| 6 | Eight years later the Crown introduced into the Lords a bill concerning the authority and enforcement of proclamations . |
| 7 | Four years later the Order of the Garter was formally instituted as a fellowship of twenty-six knights bound together by oath as companions to help one another and their king . |
| 8 | Three years later the tally had risen to seventeen countries , between them operating 167 nuclear reactors . |
| 9 | Two years later the campaign waged by his mother , Marilyn Brown resulted in his release . |
| 10 | A few years later the duchy of Austria was awarded to one of the sons of Rudolph of Habsburg . |
| 11 | Twenty years later the AEC demonstrates that this remains no less true now than it was then . |
| 12 | Ten years later the elder Enoch , Ruth ( 26 ) , Henry ( 21 ) and a grandson , Enoch Roebuck Coldwell ( 15 ) , were each earning their living as wool handloom weavers . |
| 13 | In an editorial some years later the Army magazine Salvationist reported , " Diane Thompson and Sharon Swindells did not merely lose their lives . |
| 14 | Three years later the poster was reprinted to promote the ‘ second British PWR ’ at Hinkley Point . |
| 15 | A fine of $200,000 for violating customs laws brought her collecting to a halt in 1904 , but two years later the museum was open and Mrs Gardner was collecting again . |
| 16 | Yet only twenty years later the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield was the focus of the attention of around twenty million viewers as Steve Davis was defeated on the final ball of the final frame by Dennis Taylor , who became the world champion in what The Times ( won over to ‘ popular culture ’ under its antipodean ownership ) declared to be a ‘ heart-stopping ’ match . |
| 17 | The venture was unsuccessful , and thirty-three years later the mill became a silk factory . |
| 18 | Unfortunately the new machines were not sufficiently reliable , and about ten years later the mill ceased production . |
| 19 | Sadly , less than two years later the couple were both dead . |
| 20 | This provoked fierce opposition on the part of the Magistrates ' Association , however , which viewed it as an unwarranted attack on the independence of magistrates , and just five years later the measure was repealed as a result . |
| 21 | He said this was the worst moment of his life , and the various carpetings he received ultimately had their effect ; years later the memory of them would have a deep effect on his attitude to captaincy . |
| 22 | Fourteen years later the minister of Nottingham 's Mansfield Road Baptist Church got a more typical £75 when he left . |
| 23 | Nine years later the Czar was dead . |
| 24 | The result was that 15 years later the plaster was loose and needed replacement . |
| 25 | Two years later the company 's crash was just as spectacular and Bloom was fined £30,000 on charges in connection with the affair . |
| 26 | Five years later the company wished to pay off the mortgage in full and argued that the term making the mortgage irredeemable for 40 years was void as a clog on the equity of redemption . |
| 27 | ESP 's business flourished and two years later the Company established a wholly-owned subsidiary , Submersible Oil Services Inc . |
| 28 | Of course barely three years later the company rescinded and donated the land to the town . |
| 29 | Seventy years later the treaty of 1718 between the Emperor Charles VI and the Dutch republic , which fixed the boundaries of their territories in the southern Netherlands , provides what is probably the first example of a frontier being defined not merely in the text of a treaty but also on a map attached to it . |
| 30 | Forty years later the islet of old Jaimeni appeared . |