Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Times Beach unwittingly became contaminated ten years ago , when trucks sprayed the town 's unpaved streets with waste oil containing dioxin , an extremely toxic byproduct of a common herbicide . |
| 2 | Laurie Smith , who worked at the forge from 1936 until its closure , has arranged this year 's reunion at The Cottage , alongside The Freemasons ' Hall , in Archer Street , Darlington . |
| 3 | Mrs Craig was welcomed as a member of the Leaders ' Meeting in March 1963 and has given 30 years ' service as secretary of the Women 's Fellowship . |
| 4 | Ken Doyle , Vice-President , has completed 17 years ' service on the Executive Committee since first being elected in 1973 as Wexford Area Secretary . |
| 5 | Although he has completed five years , he will continue for another couple of years until the parish is ready to be handed over to the local clergy . |
| 6 | George has completed 40 years ’ service with the company working in various locations and all his friends and colleagues gathered at Southall to wish him a long and happy retirement . |
| 7 | Geoff has completed 50 years service with Rolls-Royce and associated companies , a record unlikely to be beaten in these modern enlightened times . |
| 8 | Ron Gallacher , Production Director , has completed twenty-five years service with Lyles Carpets . |
| 9 | ( seated , has completed 22 years service — could she be our longest serving secretary ? ) |
| 10 | For example , employers can now pay full pension , without actuarial reduction , at any age between 50 and 70 , provided an employee has completed 20 years ' service with the organisation . |
| 11 | Willie has completed 25 years service , also starting as a bank boy , then via spool setting to become a weaver before he was made redundant at the same time . |
| 12 | ANOTHER long-serving employee to retire is senior design engineer Keith Ashcroft who has completed 36 years in the industry . |
| 13 | ‘ Many simple activities were started to try and make life worth living , ’ said Mr Franks , a painter whose career has included five years in theatre in London and two years with BBC TV in its infancy . |
| 14 | The Institution of Professionals , Managers and Specialists ( IPMS ) has attacked next year 's public spending plans for science , in its policy document Science in crisis — a trade union response . |
| 15 | I 'm slightly concerned about this because it said that other matters erm we do n't know what other matters until the inspector has been in , in June and has identified those other matters , presumably when we get the further inspector 's report next Autumn or after June , it will address issues which may have been ones he has addressed this year and maybe not , er and we will have to look at that inspector 's report when we receive it . |
| 16 | The Dublin-based liquid petroleum gas company , Flogas , has reported full year pre-tax profits of IR£6.52m , down from IR£7.16m in the previous year . |
| 17 | No matter , because of the agreement , the aluminium company has enjoyed 13 years so far of the theoretical value of the plutonium which has not been produced . |
| 18 | ANNE Stokes , a 30-year-old rating surveyor and taxation adviser who surveys and values cement works and quarries , has won this year 's Young Career Woman award organised by the Federation of Business and Professional Women . |
| 19 | A new type of thermal imager camera working in the far infra-red has won this year 's Prince of Wales Award for Innovation , which is organised by Business in the Community . |
| 20 | It has sandblasted 100 years of black soot off Leeds ' fine civic buildings to reveal the pale sandstone underneath , turned much of the city centre into a traffic-free pedestrian zone and made their old manufacturing mills into museums . |
| 21 | Margaret Hamlet 's daughter , Carina , has endured 10 years of painful operations with a cheerful smile and is preparing for surgery again at a pioneering orthopaedic hospital , near the Clwyd/Shropshire border . |
| 22 | From what he has seen this year , he also believes the English game is rather stereotyped . |
| 23 | Indeed , perhaps the most sensible thing that that model of of consistency , Ki Neil Kinnock , has said this year was , law makers must not must not be law breakers . |
| 24 | Now the Home Office has said , the Home Secretary rather , has said this year that he 's not granting any more policemen this year , but he also said that if county councils wished to fund more policemen , he would certainly look at that . |
| 25 | Sudan has suffered many years of intermittent internal strife between governments dominated by northerners and separatist movements in the south . |
| 26 | Capriati has struggled all year to motivate herself , and even winning an Olympic gold medal has failed to resurrect her fading enthusiasm . |
| 27 | It is true the man is bad , but he has done two years , almost , in prison . |
| 28 | ‘ I AM talking about a man that has done 26 years behind bars and if he had done the same crime today he would have got 10 years and would have got out five years ago ’ — actor Mike Reid on Reggie Kray . |
| 29 | Their other son , Peter , who has done 13 years in the RAF , served in the Gulf War and , says his proud father , was mentioned in despatches . |
| 30 | Among its assets are the Grand Theatre , its charmingly over-decorated and atmospheric Leeds home , with an Italianate intimacy to its horseshoe-shaped auditorium ; an orchestra and chorus , young in heart , age , and sound , who seems to get better every time I hear them ; and a musical director , David Lloyd-Jones , who has done twelve years of sterling service and will be promisingly succeeded in August by Paul Daniel . |