Example sentences of "[adv] [num] year [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Through the Business Link we have been able to find a supplier which is literally 500 years down the road from us . ’ |
| 2 | At first glance , late Anglo-Saxon political history portrays a state riven by internal discord and highly vulnerable to external enemies : only fifty years after the Danish conquest it was subjugated again by the Normans . |
| 3 | They were designed only eleven years after the rocket and are much more advanced |
| 4 | What is disturbing about Graeme Wright 's resignation after only six years in the chair is his stated disillusionment with too many aspects of the modern game . |
| 5 | These " cosmic ripples " were estimated to stretch as far as 59 billion trillion miles in space and were calculated to have been formed only 300,000 years after the " Big Bang " ( the original event which scientists believe had created space and time ) . |
| 6 | IS IT REALLY ONLY three years since the infamous incident when drunken revellers used champagne to flush a broken nightclub toilet ? |
| 7 | In 1808 the elder Burn sent William , at the age of 17 , to the office of Sir Robert Smirke , then only three years in the business and already being offered more business than he could safely undertake . |
| 8 | Any President has difficulty making a substantial impact even in a full term , and Kennedy tragically had only three years in the highest office . |
| 9 | The males , now about 18 inches long , may have spent only three years in the rivers ; the females in the higher reaches may have been there for as many as eight or nine and are three times as long . |
| 10 | First , only three years after the death of the Young King , Geoffrey , heir to Brittany , died in a tournament , leaving |
| 11 | Only three years after the collapse of the projected EDC and Political Community structures , European integration was poised to take a great leap forward . |
| 12 | Sparring competition is divided into the following categories : Men 's Senior ( over 21 years of age on the day of competition ) ; Women 's ( over 18 years on the day of competition ) ; Men 's junior ( over 18 but below 21 years on the day of competition ) ; and Male Cadets ( over 16 but below 18 years on the day of competition ) . |
| 13 | Sparring competition is divided into the following categories : Men 's Senior ( over 21 years of age on the day of competition ) ; Women 's ( over 18 years on the day of competition ) ; Men 's junior ( over 18 but below 21 years on the day of competition ) ; and Male Cadets ( over 16 but below 18 years on the day of competition ) . |
| 14 | This invention came to Obod , near Cetinje , from Italy in 1493 , only twenty-five years after the death of Gutenberg and within the lifetime of Caxton . |
| 15 | Aksum had outlasted Jerusalem and Rome , going down in ruin only eighty years before the Norman conquest of Britain . |
| 16 | The age of sexual maturity varies , from only 3 years for the common dolphin to 8 or 9 years for the spotted and the striped dolphins . |
| 17 | This was only five years after the war , and Spain 's dictator , Francisco Franco , who had been an ally of Hitler and Mussolini , was still in power . |
| 18 | An event that has been occurring for only five years before the enactment of the 1986 Act is of a more dubious standing . |
| 19 | So one year after the general election , how will Major 's cabinet be remembered in social policy terms , and how does Thatcher 's legacy now appear ? |
| 20 | Moorcroft spent only one year on the Lyons course , planned to occupy four years . |
| 21 | The Social Democrat party , banned by the Nazis in 1933 , returned to life for only one year after the war in what was then the Soviet-occupied zone of Germany . |
| 22 | Scotland , which has a broader exam taken after only one year in the sixth form , keeps a higher proportion of 16-year-olds on at school — and its university courses normally last four years . |
| 23 | His departure follows that of his predecessor , Jean Untermaier , who spent only one year in the post . |
| 24 | Alexandra had come to see that , perhaps two years after the disastrous birthday party , finding her father in the midst of the flock at lambing time , naked to the waist like the other shepherds , his right arm streaked with the birth slime of the lambs whose arrival had been difficult . |
| 25 | Only four years after the enactment of the English Bill of Lading Act , the United States Supreme Court subjected bill of lading exemption clauses to obligations which were described as ‘ overriding ’ : 1 ) The obligation to use due care with respect to the cargo ; and 2 ) the obligation to furnish a seaworthy ship at the beginning of the voyage . |
| 26 | Only two years since the last show |
| 27 | I am eighteen , which is not only two years above the age of consent , but is also now the age of majority . |
| 28 | In 1873 he returned to England to take up the post of electrician to the Highton Battery Company , and in 1877 set up the first experimental overhead telephone line in England , only two years after the invention of the telephone in the United States by Alexander Graham Bell [ q.v . ] . |
| 29 | He was a pioneer in the introduction of train electric lighting , applied to a Pullman car only two years after the invention of the incandescent lamp by Thomas Edison in 1879 . |
| 30 | After only two years in the same house as Minton , Vaughan wanted to escape . |