Example sentences of "year when [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the mid century with the withdrawal of the regular Roman forces the country was under attack from the Saxon 's and Jutes , this continuing for a period of years when a gradual occupation of Kent took place . |
| 2 | He says : ‘ It 's ludicrous that we have to wait for three to five years when a foreign company can come in and pick up a UK TV company right now . ’ |
| 3 | The national health service is greatly improved , in that for many years — including those years when the Labour party was running , or reported to be running the country — the financial balance of the service was poor . |
| 4 | Erm , I think the charge that has been laid against myself personally and my myself and my colleagues is the charge of vacillation and changing our mind and I and I am grateful to c my colleague David for reminding us that we have in this county had two years two years when the Labour party and the Conservative party have been hand in glove , absolutely determined that the way forward in relation to homes , elderly persons homes , not that 's not to close any and now we 've had a complete volte face when they 've changed their minds and they 've come along with us . |
| 5 | Points to watch for : Service contracts lasting up to nine years when the average life of the machine is three-and-a-half . |
| 6 | This fertile region , hollowed out and enriched so far as the soil is concerned by glaciation , was once known as the Pays tea Quatre Vallées , and Arreau was its capital , being another of the small centres which flourished in the years when the trans-Pyrenean trade with Spain was at its height . |
| 7 | 4. 1957 saw the return of trams to Squires Gate Lane after many years when the Circular Tour was revived . |
| 8 | At national level HMI customarily look back two years when an overall survey of progress is made . |
| 9 | All in all , though , it looks like the year when a new generation will take over . |
| 10 | They did not , however , appear to have sole rights at Tilberthwaite for there was an annoyance this year when a small company working on the Baron 's land , encroached onto Coniston ground , and illegally mined ore rightfully allowed to Taylor & Co . |
| 11 | Their success in this area so changed the way British films were perceived that , in 1932 , a year when a large number of exhibitors substantially over-filled their quota , the American showbiz journal Variety reported on ‘ the complete stranglehold the home-made pictures had established at the local box office . ’ |
| 12 | Newall was arrested in August this year when a Royal Navy frigate intercepted his yacht off Gibraltar — an operation that cost an estimated £250,000 . |
| 13 | However , the fabulous goal-kicker is now much more mobile than he was last year when a niggling groin injury affected him . |
| 14 | The conference of 1944 had to be postponed owing to the difficulties of travel , which were imposed in the spring and summer of that year when the Allied invasion forces used Britain as their base for the ‘ reentry ’ into France : it was finally held in December . |
| 15 | Indeed , confirmation of a satisfactory legal outcome would appear to have been apparent during December last year when the legal Director of the EC Commission , Mr Dubois , wrote to the Association 's Solicitors , stating , ‘ … |
| 16 | Joining the House of Lords as a life peer only in 1963 , he became Lord Chancellor in the following year when the Labour Administration was formed , remaining in office until 1970 . |
| 17 | But persistent exposure to the same paper-type at least three times a week for a whole year may well have some effect , particularly if it is a preelection year when the political temperature usually rises . |
| 18 | Our international standing as managing agents and consultants in energy efficiency and renewable energy was highlighted this year when the International Energy Agency appointed ETSU as its overall manager for the analysis and dissemination of renewable energy technologies . |
| 19 | The first service was held in a year when the total number of boats fishing from Whitby that September had risen to 130 . |
| 20 | Could 1992 be the year when the environmental revolution really comes of age ? |
| 21 | And the year when the industrial base of Germany was being systematically dismantled and shipped to the victors . |
| 22 | In a year when the annual quantity required ( 207,461,000 cu. ft. ) is balanced by adequate rainfall then the storage must be such as to make up the supply during the relatively dry period . |
| 23 | ‘ The Eurodisney issue has been heavily marketed and comes in a year when the French market is very exiting , probably the most exciting in Europe . ’ |
| 24 | The unit , which does all of the firm 's Unix porting work , will start to blow its own trumpet in the new year when the latest workflow automation techniques in its client/server and Unix software will be on parade . |
| 25 | These parents were initially delighted last year when the local council announced that , in response to parents ' campaigning for a nursery class , all four-year-olds would be offered a school place . |
| 26 | On the other hand this was also the year when the British government had reluctantly bowed to American pressure and agreed to the establishment of a base in the Holy Loch in the west of Scotland for American Polaris submarines . |
| 27 | Fiji 's decline is abetted by its newly-acquired reputation as a ‘ banana republic ’ following the two coups last year when the military leader Colonel Rambuka refused to allow the democratically-elected government to take office . |
| 28 | At the moment , a worker moving between jobs in different countries could lose his future occupational pension benefits — a situation which could be exacerbated next year when the single market is implemented and more workers start moving jobs to different member states . |
| 29 | ‘ Samain is the one night of the year when the Bright Palace is vulnerable . |
| 30 | Things came to a head this year when the full extent of Charles 's friendship with Camilla Parker Bowles was revealed by royal author Andrew Morton . |