Example sentences of "this [noun sg] [vb -s] the [num ord] anniversary " in BNC.
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| 1 | But proper critical attention will be reserved for the museum 's major treatment of Käthe Kollwitz , for whom this exhibition celebrates the 125th anniversary of her birth . |
| 2 | The Jesuit College of St Alban , an English seminary in Valladolid , this month celebrates the 400th anniversary of its foundation , the programme including Mass in Westminster Cathedral but , sadly , no return of the 1907 fixture with Real which the college won , though the result seems to have been lost in some priest-hole of history . |
| 3 | This month marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of Joseph Priestley , chemist , cleric and reformer , whose scientific discoveries and powerful imagination , together with outspoken views on freedom of thought , education and religion , inspired contemporaries and future generations |
| 4 | THIS weekend marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of one of the North 's most celebrated soldiers . |
| 5 | Not to be outdone by the Rossinians and the Mozartians , or the Vienna and New York Philharmonics , Houston this year celebrates the twentieth anniversary not of a birth or death or a founding , but of a hiring , that of David Gockley as General Director of the Houston Grand Opera . |
| 6 | The Royal British Legion have again requested support for their appeal which this year commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Battle of El-Alamein . |
| 7 | THIS year marks the 80th anniversary of Catholic education at Harrytown School , Romiley , Stockport . |
| 8 | THIS year sees the 50th anniversary of the launch of HMS Khedive , an assault fighter aircraft carrier which operated with distinction in the South of France landings and in the Aegean Sea , and later against the Japanese . |