Example sentences of "not [verb] [prep] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | But those circumstances did not arise until four years later , when I was not with my immediate family all the time , but away at boarding-school , the Malory Towers of my dreams . |
| 2 | The State did not exist until 120 years ago . |
| 3 | The Royal Company of Archers , based in Edinburgh , better known as the Monarch 's Bodyguard in Scotland , was not formed until 1676,193 years after the Kilwinning Society , but as they have had a continuous existence also , they can claim to be the oldest archery company in Scotland . |
| 4 | ‘ The English way has not altered for 30 years , ’ he says . |
| 5 | So this is not intended for five years old , it actually refers to new vehicles . |
| 6 | I 'm hearing things now that I have not heard in fifteen years that I 've been on this County Council and I would suggest erm to Mr that when he 's talking about things that this County Council ought to print , and I think the one suggestion he came up with is very sensible , he could perhaps follow up with a catalogue of those things which he considers need doing that after a hundred years have not been done . |
| 7 | On Saturday they travel to Ayr — where the Fifers have not won for 10 years — knowing that victory at Somerset Park would take them up if Dunfermline beat Kilmarnock at East End Park . |
| 8 | They did not know then , were not to know for many years , were never fully to understand what it was that held them together — a sense of being on the margins of English life , perhaps , a sense of being outsiders , looking in from a cold street through a lighted window into a warm lit room that later might prove to be their own ? |
| 9 | As promised , his regime had delivered a degree of governmental stability that France had not enjoyed for many years . |
| 10 | The 66 points were not equalled until thirty years later , when Spurs won the Double , and not surpassed until 1969 , when Leeds United made 67 . |
| 11 | A first flight is not expected for another year . |
| 12 | Regulations implementing this part of the Act are not expected until next year . |
| 13 | A decision is not expected until next year . |
| 14 | A decision is not expected before next year . |
| 15 | The idea of the emergent Pacific was not in anyone 's mind , and in any case the reality of it was not to appear for many years . |
| 16 | PLCND , chaired by Bob Cryer , Labour candidate for Bradford South and vice-chairman of Labour 's backbench defence committee , has not met since last year . |
| 17 | Despite living only about 10 minutes from each other , the two have not met for 50 years . |
| 18 | ‘ I have not prayed for twenty years , ’ he told Elliott , ‘ and on Sundays I plan how to kill Portuguese . ’ |
| 19 | The unions said the minister promised them in a private April 19 meeting that the operator 's status would not budge for two years . |
| 20 | Dinosaurs and the great reptiles did not appear until one year ago , when the planet was 45 . |
| 21 | He let himself think , as he had not done for many years , of Célestine , of their year together in London , and as he had known it would , the memory made him deeply unhappy . |
| 22 | He put his arm around her shoulders , as he had not done for many years . |
| 23 | It is hitting even my constituency in a way it has not done for many years . |
| 24 | Naked , she walked into the bathroom and there surveyed herself in a way she had not done for some years . |
| 25 | His pronouncement that ‘ when your application is not done in two years its running at zero MIPS no matter what hardware is running on your desk ’ was greeted by cheers from the audience . |
| 26 | Mr. Major said that the inflation figure was remarkable in a way not seen for many years . |
| 27 | In Tokyo , the Nikkei share index continued its nosedive into depths not seen for five years , despite government efforts to stimulate the slowing economy and the maudlin market . |
| 28 | In this new atmosphere the legislature displayed a determination to defend itself against executive encroachment , not seen for some years . |
| 29 | GORDON Turner has launched a search for the pal he has not seen for forty years . |
| 30 | Some parts of the house he had not seen for twenty years . |