Example sentences of "year [adv] [pron] [be] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Twenty years later it is still operating successfully . |
| 2 | Thirty years later it was universally believed in Abyssinia that the Solomonic line had been re-established , a belief which endured until the overthrow of Haile Selassie and the establishment of the present Marxist republic . |
| 3 | Two years later he was again dismissing a third of his hands in a mid-winter lay-off . |
| 4 | In December 1675 he was appointed one of the commissioners of the customs : two years later he was also made a commissioner to enquire into abuses in the mint . |
| 5 | Three years later he was still exercising the same power . |
| 6 | But two years ago he was finally discharged , to be treated as an out patient . |
| 7 | Best of all , of course , the place has a built-in prison to put Buoncamino to shame , for though Alcatraz closed its doors to its regular customers 27 years ago it is still preserved as a tourist attraction . |
| 8 | Having qualified three years ago I am now asking myself , was it really worth it ? |
| 9 | hurricane has gone out of the news now , once something like that has happened there 's always another disaster coming behind that actually takes over the headlines , so , about six months , a year , two years afterwards they were still finding that in parts of Europe the general level of nuclear activity was higher than it had been before Chernobyl , why would that happen ? |
| 10 | A year later she was again arrested for throwing stones at a ministerial car during a political meeting in Liverpool . |
| 11 | More than a year later he was still complaining about the ‘ cold dark dining room ( which the sun never shines into ) ’ . |
| 12 | QUITE HOW it happened I 'm still not sure , but about a year ago I was shamelessly conned into driving Christie Hennessy to Cork in a rented car . |
| 13 | Before the regional elections a year ago he was constantly predicting that his party would win 15-20 per cent of the vote . |
| 14 | IF Stakis shareholders had come to bury Caesar last year then they were there to praise him at yesterday 's annual general meeting in the Normandy Hotel in Renfrew . |
| 15 | Moreover , instead of these cash limits being set one year ahead they are now to cover the whole planning period ; that is , three years ahead . |