Example sentences of "[adj] year [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It used to form part of a trade route in Neolithic times ( 4,000–2,000 years BC ) , providing access between the Norfolk Coast and the downlands of South Central England . |
| 2 | They 've all been ele these three councillors have been elected at different , in different years okay ? |
| 3 | 30 years ago on Trinity Sunday , 28 May 1961 , the British Lawyer , Peter Beneson ( right ) started Amnesty International . |
| 4 | He is frequently described as ‘ having the stoop of an ageing crop-picker and the face of a curious little boy ’ — which may have been true 30 years ago , but now belongs to the discard-tray with other caricatures : caricatures , as Oscar Wilde observed , are compliments that mediocrity pays to genius . |
| 5 | Our properties were here 30 years ago , the impact we have now comes from our staff . ’ |
| 6 | C Walker and Sons was founded in Blackburn 30 years ago by two brothers , Jack and Fred Walker , with a few thousand pounds of capital and has grown from a business with a turnover of under £100,000 in the late 1950s to a £620m concern with 3,400 employees in the UK and Ireland and profits last year of £48.4m . |
| 7 | Ski areas tend to be as fragmented now as they were 20 or 30 years ago . |
| 8 | • Phil Hill was honoured by the race organisers to mark the world title the American diver won 30 years ago . |
| 9 | According to Lotus associate director Albert Adams — a world authority on composites and the man who , 30 years ago , was told by Chapman to ‘ learn all about glass-fibre ’ — it could be from the escalating costs of tooling up for pressed-steel car production . |
| 10 | He compared it with the scheme 30 years ago when Britain built tall chimneys to disperse pollution over a wide area . |
| 11 | SOME 30 years ago , whenever Professor Wilfrid Bach ventured to blow his nose he faced a hazard which has affected his thinking for life . |
| 12 | Despite her success , Buchi Emecheta still feels about this country much as she did when she first arrived 30 years ago , on a grey March morning in Liverpool . |
| 13 | Printers , traditionally an exclusive ‘ closed shop ’ of workers , say that initiation ceremonies for apprentices are less common now than 20 or 30 years ago . |
| 14 | Scientists and musicians have struggled to add feeling to synthesised computer-music ever since Max Mathews first helped to teach computers to play , more than 30 years ago . |
| 15 | Muslims started to arrive in Britain in large numbers about 30 years ago . |
| 16 | Buick has even revived the Roadmaster , a name last used in Buick 's heyday 30 years ago for massive , popular hunks of steel and chrome . |
| 17 | Little has altered to make finance in America and Britain suddenly different from the way it was 10 , 20 or even 30 years ago . |
| 18 | HE last time that the European Community tried to create a ‘ political union ’ , 30 years ago , it all ended in tears . |
| 19 | Since betting was legalised 30 years ago , bookmakers have not been allowed to do anything that might ‘ stimulate ’ a punter to bet . |
| 20 | It seems the industry is just not learning because we are continuing to see the same accidents we saw 30 years ago , ’ says John Summerscales , deputy chief inspector . |
| 21 | Again , most come from the local supermarket except for the small , but spectacular scarlet ‘ Flamboyant ’ , brought more than 30 years ago . |
| 22 | David Rigg , commercial development director , reminisced nostalgically that there has not been such a boom in his business since the rush to decolonise Africa some 30 years ago . |
| 23 | Retailers say Pentland Crown , the Scottish-bred variety which increased farmers ' yields by up to 20 per cent when it was introduced 30 years ago , bruises too easily and goes black . |
| 24 | But it would be regarded as less serious than 20 to 30 years ago , and less so in the theatrical and film worlds where it 's regarded as almost normal . ’ |
| 25 | That is really what made Danish ballet such a discovery for the rest of Europe 30 years ago . |
| 26 | To think that not less than 30 years ago we still had a fiver worthy of the 18th century and felt no need to supplement the revenue by the constant issuing of new postage stamps . |
| 27 | Once , 25 or 30 years ago , they were working class East-Enders who could n't run a business but found in driving a cab a way to be free . |
| 28 | HAMPSHIRE born and bred , the Tyler-Upfields each started going to Cornwall with their buckets and spades 30 years ago . |
| 29 | People forget — until one day somebody realises a farmer is paying a rent established 30 years ago , and then all hell is let loose in the sleepy meeting in the back room of the pub . |
| 30 | More than 30 years ago BBC Radio carried out a ‘ Which ? ’ -type survey of football ground toilets . |