Example sentences of "year [conj] [noun prp] come [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Mary I married Philip of Spain she decreed they ruled England jointly , and for the next few years until Elizabeth came to the throne the following strange convention was adopted for recording their regnal years : On 17 March 1649 the monarchy was abolished and during the period until parliamentary government was overtaken by the Restoration , English official documents were dated by the year of grace . |
| 2 | Thirty years since Asterix came to life , sales of the books — 28 so far — have topped 180 million ( Asterix 's magic potion for superhuman strength enables them all to speak in 29 languages ) . |
| 3 | A hundred years before Elizabeth came to the throne no member of the human race had ever been in a position to make a map of the whole world ; civilizations had risen and flourished in different regions of the world but they had little or no idea of their geographical relationship to one another . |
| 4 | It was to be a good many years before Coniston came within the sphere of operations however . |
| 5 | It is a striking coincidence that in the same year that Aethelbald came to power among the Mercians , the assassination of Osred , son of Aldfrith , in Northumbria and the accession there of Coenred also broke the entrenched power of the family of Aethelfrith which had dominated the kingship of the northern Angles for more than seventy years ( see below , pp. 47 ff . ) . |
| 6 | It was in this year that OUP came on the scene when they contracted both with the Philological Society and with Murray to publish the Dictionary . |
| 7 | On the last Monaghan Day that McQuaid came to the house Moran was on edge as he waited for him as he had been on edge every Monaghan Day , the only day in the year that McQuaid came to Great Meadow . |