Example sentences of "[adj] year by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The research , carried out over 30 years by the joint directors of the Child Development Research Unit at Nottingham University , shows that two-thirds of babies are smacked before the age of one , that three-quarters of four-year-olds are smacked once a week or more , and that by the age of seven , 22 per cent have been hit with implements . |
| 2 | Two thousand six hundred direct jobs and another estimated two and a half thousand indirect jobs will have been lost in the last two and a half years by the closing of Camel Lairds . |
| 3 | The campaign to bring Blair Peach 's murderer to justice and the demand for a full public inquiry into the events of ‘ 79 has been mounted for nine and a half years by the Friends of Blair Peach Committee . |
| 4 | The latter part of the decade saw St Owens Mill start up , followed within a few years by the Island Street and Victoria Street Mills , Luker also involved with the latter . |
| 5 | An investigation undertaken in the past few years by the United Nations found that ‘ … in the majority of reporting agencies , computer staff … have chief responsibility for management policies relating to e-mail communications … |
| 6 | Colin Gibbins was arrested this year by the customs authorities after they seized a high speed Imacon 790 camera , worth £250,000 , at Birmingham Airport . |
| 7 | Palm Sunday , for Christians the commemoration of Christ 's entry into Jerusalem , was marked this year by the opening of Euro Disney . |
| 8 | A serious flaw in our arrangements was remedied this year by the appointment of the Reviewer of Complaints ( or Ombudsman ) . |
| 9 | The Chairman of the Museums and Galleries Commission , Graham C. Greene , has asked the Attorney General Nicholas Lyell to look into the matter of the permission , finally granted this year by the Charity Commissioners , but applied for in 1988 , to break the Trust of Thomas Holloway . |
| 10 | The research report SCHOOL LIBRARIES AT WORK ( Heeks & Kinnell ) is due for publication later this year by the British Library . |
| 11 | Grants worth around £12 million have been awarded to voluntary and arts organisations this year by the Regional Council . |
| 12 | But no members of the public have been killed this year by the security forces compared to eight last year . |
| 13 | The Joint Information Systems Committee ( JISC ) was set up this year by the higher education funding councils ( HEFCs ) as a successor body to the Computer Board and the Information Systems Committee ( ISC ) . |
| 14 | The results published earlier this year by The Henley Centre confirm this experience . |
| 15 | Acid rain was found in 85 per cent of samples taken from 23,000 locations in Japan in a three-month survey conducted earlier this year by the Japanese Consumers ' Co-operative Union ( JCCU ) . |
| 16 | The award is one of five given this year by the British Urban Regeneration Association . |
| 17 | More recently the Solstice has attracted thousands of New Age travellers , but they 've been banned this year by the same injuctions that now govern Castlemorton common in Worcestershire , where an illegal festival just over a year ago attracted 20,000 travellers . |
| 18 | He said funding of £110m worth of ECUs earmarked for use here this year by the European Commission five years ago , was now worth around £125m and warned the Government against using the funds to boost the Treasury . |
| 19 | The small voluntary TRANSAID team has been strengthened this year by the addition of Eric Schumacher , formerly a senior manager with I.C.I. Eric brings with him extensive general management and transport experience , which is already proving to be valuable . |
| 20 | In 1952 Walter Luff should have retired , but was twice persuaded to stay on for another year by the Transport Committee . |
| 21 | This was reduced from eight to six years by the Court of Appeal in 1990 , but the court then ruled that his remaining two grounds of appeal could not be argued in the light of the 1984 Lords decision . |
| 22 | It was flown for six years by the Canadians before it was sold as surplus in late 1947 by the War Assets Corporation . |
| 23 | We are frequently reminded by the media and by professionals of various kinds of the size of the increase which is to be expected in the number of those aged over 75 or 85 years by the end of the century . |
| 24 | Posters are far more difficult to monitor : in the past , agencies used to have their own teams of inspectors , but this is no longer done , and the only real check on the presence and condition of posters is a regular service run for the past 10 years by the Poster Advertising Bureau , which reports on the level of damage to posters , as a stimulus to the contractors to take care of their sites . |
| 25 | In 1901 , encouraged by the resurgence of peasant unrest , several local groups combined to form the Socialist Revolutionary ( SR ) Party , and were joined the following year by the émigré Agrarian Socialist League . |
| 26 | Several local groups came together in 1901 to form the SR party , and were joined the following year by the émigré Agrarian Socialist League . |
| 27 | After concluding the deal through an intermediary , John H. Ross , Collins arranged to have the case transferred from another judge and then sentenced the man to 42 months ' imprisonment despite a recommendation of eight years by the probation officer . |
| 28 | Supplied in normal years by the South and the East , it extended to the North and even to Cornwall in years of short supply . |
| 29 | The other discovery we are making is of that world cut off from us for fifty years by the Iron Curtain ; Simon Jervis 's otherwise excellent Penguin Dictionary of Design and Designers published in 1984 does not include a single one of the leading names in Czech Cubist design : Josef Gocar , Pavel Janak , Vlastislav Hofman , Josef Chochol and Otakar Novotny . |
| 30 | A seat in the House of Representatives for Massachusetts , held for 32 years by the late Silvio O. Conte ( Republican ) , was won by the Democrats at a special election on June 4 ; John Olver , a liberal Democrat and strong supporter of abortion rights , narrowly defeated conservative Republican Steven Pierce , an opponent of abortion . |