Example sentences of "the [num ord] [noun sg] [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The secretary-managership of Leeds City had become vacant on the retirement of Scott Walford at the end of the club 's most disastrous season since it entered the Second Division eight years before , and the public looked with keen interest to see what effect the new man 's ‘ shrewd judgement and tactful management ’ ( Yorkshire Post ) would have . |
| 2 | It was the biggest body-blow the club had taken since they were dumped into the Second Division 20 years ago . |
| 3 | He played for Bradford Park Avenue against Millwall in the Second Division 60 years ago at the age of 15 years , 158 days . |
| 4 | Peter Butler , 40 , got divorced for the second time two years ago . |
| 5 | A gastric lymphoma developed in the fourth patient seven years after radiotherapy treatment for Hodgkin 's disease . |
| 6 | The Rye are proof that this idea works : they were on the first tour two years ago and are now probably the hottest property in the region . |
| 7 | I think they have more pedigree than the other team in that they were in the first division four years ago , erm so I think we can expect a harder game than we had last time . |
| 8 | Liverpool 's defeat , which threatens to prevent them finishing in the top five for the first time since their initial season back in the First Division 30 years ago , was again due to the unpredictable goalkeeping of Grobbelaar . |
| 9 | Discussions on these and other subjects , which started at the first consultation two years ago , will be developed further next August at the Third Indonesian Consultation on Theology and Communication . |
| 10 | for the first time five years of ed |
| 11 | Peter Jenkinson , Head of Walsall 's Museums and Art Galleries commented : ‘ When we launched the first show three years ago , we were amazed at the amount of secret collectors we discovered behind ordinary people 's front doors . |
| 12 | This year there will be a Jubilee Expedition to the forest region of northern Finland to which the founder , Surgeon-Commander G. Murray Levick , RN , led the first expedition 60 years ago . |
| 13 | Marianne is 33 and she married for the third time two years ago . |
| 14 | For it was at Upton Park that United lifted the title for the last time 25 years ago . |
| 15 | The last figure ten years ago put the town 's population at 97,800 . |
| 16 | It 's more than even the 150th anniversary three years ago.The entry includes South Africans and Russians . |