Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further investment is needed at the colliery , which reopened last year when 160 miners invested £10,000 each to form the consortium . |
| 2 | There is no sense of accountability in a council such as Edinburgh , which sought last year to tax residents at £584 per head . |
| 3 | From the mid-1970s the Committee and its officers were engaged in a process of sponsoring debate and planning , including through such conferences as one on school experience and the assessment of practical teaching , held in York in October 1976 — a pioneer conference from which emerged a CNAA-funded research project which reported three years later . |
| 4 | Augmented by their co-religionists through the centuries , often in response to waves of persecution such as the expulsion from Spain which occurred 500 years ago this month . |
| 5 | ‘ If anything can be concluded from this book , it is that I was born , ’ writes Sisson after touching on that event , which occurred 75 years ago in a building since occupied by the Bristol Rovers Supporters Club . |
| 6 | Hence the portentous , and even fatuous slogan which towered each year in brightest blue above the rostrum . |
| 7 | The organisers say that this is a responsibly run event and add that any problems which dogged last years festival have been overcome . |
| 8 | Just after the despatch of the circular to provincial governors A. I. Levshin , the Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs , began compiling a historical memorandum on serfdom which reviewed 200 years of legislation on the subject and drew on the documents generated by Nicholas I 's secret committees . |
| 9 | Nonetheless the 1991–92 figure clearly needed to be brought back to a more affordable level , and during the ‘ star chamber ’ exercise in the spring to which referred last year , the contract with Westminster Strategy ( our PR consultants ) was renegotiated , and the budgeted figure for the current year has been reduced to £170,000 . |
| 10 | Above him is a clock which stopped 50 years ago and has not been wound since . |
| 11 | Slow retrieval speed has led to a partial withdrawal of relational database systems in a few organisations as well as the late appearance of commercial relational DBMS which came many years after their research counterparts . |
| 12 | Keith Hayes , treasurer of Middlesbrough and District Philatelic Society , which hosted this year 's convention , said it had attracted dealers from all over the North from the Tweed to the Humber . |
| 13 | Now the University of Birmingham , in association with the British School at Athens , has launched the Knossos 2000 Project , the first proper and systematic excavation of the ancient city which flourished 2000 years after the Minoan palaces on the island were destroyed . |
| 14 | For example , Virgin Holidays ( 0293–617181 ) offers a seven-night holiday at Disney 's Port Orleans Resort , which opened last year close to the Epcot Centre , at £679 per person for one week , or £899 for two weeks , including passes and nonstop flight to Orlando . |
| 15 | A new hotel which opened last year , the Mutiara has lived up to expectations as the island 's most luxurious hotel . |
| 16 | How can Annie Murphy remember in such intimate detail things which happened 18 years ago ? |
| 17 | The incident was almost identical to a similar mix-up which happened six years ago . |
| 18 | Also at Duxford is the Old Flying Machine Company 's Hunter F. Mk. 6A G-BUEZ , which spent many years at the Empire Test Pilots School at Farnborough and Boscombe Down as XF375 before being retired as an instructional airframe at Cranwell in 1982 . |
| 19 | In 1727 the Synod of Moscow sent a mission which spent ten years amongst the Serbs of Vojvodina and Srem , forging strong links with the Serbian Orthodox clergy and their flocks . |
| 20 | The official receiver has been called in to work out how much the firm , which folded last year , owed . |
| 21 | The Home Office responded by stating that the same arguments which pertained ten years ago when General Horwood wished to ban the Communist party still stood today . |
| 22 | The accord , which followed two years of negotiations , was scheduled to come into force in September 1994 . |
| 23 | Although there was as yet no sign that the IRA was capable of mounting the sort of offensive which followed four years later , Paisley had no doubt where O'Neill 's reforming policy would lead : |
| 24 | Rose Mayers ' Class in Llyswen , which began five years ago , is flourishing nicely . |
| 25 | This disc completes Lin 's recording of Mozart 's complete concertante works for violin , which began four years ago with his very well received version of the Third and Fifth concertos and the Adagio ( K261 ) . |
| 26 | Mrs Dale 's Diary , which ran for twenty-one years on BBC radio from 1948 , was always gently laced with humour ; its rural rival , The Archers , which began two years later , is a broadly similar amalgam of the playful and the sentimental ; and between them , in a sub-literary sort of way , they illustrate the power of a revived realism in post-war Britain : quite different from the grand-opera histrionics of American TV soaps like Dallas or Dynasty , which are scarcely funny at all , at least in intention , and wildly unrealistic as images of how the rich in the United States really live . |
| 27 | The Southern Rivers Project , which began last year and is funded by English Heritage , is concerned about the future preservation of nationally important Paleolithic sites . |
| 28 | Negotiations , which began last year , have been continuing since the collapse of the its parent company , Lilley , seven weeks ago . |
| 29 | Negotiations which began last year have been continuing since the collapse of the parent company , Lilley plc , seven weeks ago . |
| 30 | KINGFISHER , the group which owns Woolworth , Comet , Superdrug and B&Q , yesterday launched ‘ permanent ’ price cuts on 500 of B&Q 's product lines , extending the price-cutting policy which began last year with paint . |