Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The development , first reported in The Scotsman three years ago , opens up the possibility of being able to treat the first signs of breast cancer when the chances of success are highest . |
| 2 | Hailed as a trouble-shooter , sixty-two year old Mr Peterken joined the board six years ago . |
| 3 | Mr. P.J. Rowlinson. appointed to the Board two years earlier in 1977 , became Vice-Chairman . |
| 4 | He was shot in the heart five years ago . |
| 5 | William had come to the throne two years earlier , in 1688 , after the Glorious Revolution against the Catholic James II ; but although the Treatises do contain material which could be seen as after-the-fact justifications of the Revolution , they were not written for this reason . |
| 6 | Eventually he managed to get away to the continent , and when he was restored to the throne nine years later , the story of the King 's narrow escape seized the public imagination . |
| 7 | Lakeland Canoe Club is an old established club , formed in the year when Queen Elizabeth II came to the throne 40 years ago . |
| 8 | Dana claimed that he expanded his diary into the narrative Two Years Before the Mast ( the significant subtitle is ‘ An authentic narrative of a sailor 's Life at Sea ’ ) in order to represent the seaman 's view ignored in other sea-stories , but as a young undergraduate , sent to sea for his health , he presented a life of hardship and monotony from an educated point of view and seems in any case to have been more concerned with exact recording of weather , cargoes and seaman 's techniques than with personal behaviour and attitudes . |
| 9 | Dr Clay writes that during the middle years of the seventeenth century customary tenures were still widespread and important , especially for the smaller properties , but that much less land was held in this way than was the case 100 years earlier . |
| 10 | Advent of low cost processors allowing DSP algorithms to be implemented with relative ease means electronics engineers now have much greater awareness of its potential — certainly not the case five years ago . |
| 11 | In 1973 the UK had the smallest dependence on EC markets of any of the nine EC members , and this was still the case ten years later . |
| 12 | Both times it was the opening Test of the series and lack of preparation could be blamed in 1981 and disturbing political problems off the field four years later . |
| 13 | President Reagan lifted the ban two years ago , but the Barnwell consortium says this is not enough to expunge the injury caused by Carter to its plans . |
| 14 | He has played a leading part in developing the Viet Nam business for the bast six years , chalking up 32 visits to the country before his permanent posting . |
| 15 | LIFFE scored here by exploiting the first-mover advantage achieved by introducing the contract two years ahead of the DTB . |
| 16 | In the city centre , in Princes Street , where CCG won the contract two years ago Sandra Angelucci and her staff provide an individual service and respond to requests . |
| 17 | JIM WATTON , contract manager for CCG at Scotrail , is delighted at the impact his trolley service has had on rail passengers in Scotland since the company took over the contract two years ago . |
| 18 | Pictures of the chairman ten years ago or the old plant before the renovations are only of interest for the company history and are definitely not for current use . |
| 19 | Liberal Premier David Peterson had called the election two years before the current parliament 's term — constitutionally five years , although in practice normally four years — expired . |
| 20 | Mr Frederick Wright , chairman of Barry Island Resort Ltd , which bought the camp three years ago , said the BBC later received 30,000 postcards from holidaymakers who had enjoyed their stay . |
| 21 | In order , therefore , to avoid inheritance tax , the settlor should make the settlement seven years before his death , and the settlement should be designed to benefit the beneficiaries without giving limited interests to them . |
| 22 | But Buckingham has always been close to her heart : she officially opened the university sixteen years ago and smiles upon its system of accelerated degrees and open access . |
| 23 | When we started building the university twenty years ago we encountered a very unusual problem . |
| 24 | They bought the building two years ago with the intention of turning it into an exhibition space for cultural exchanges between Europe ( mainly France ) and Japan . |
| 25 | Samuel Hitch , a medical superintendant of the asylum , wanted to change the way the mentally ill were treated and founded the Royal college of psychiatrists , which held it 's inaugural meeting in the building 150 years ago . |
| 26 | In The Guardian ten years ago , the former editor Alastair Hetherington described the situation most succinctly when he confessed to having ‘ trespassed ’ here himself and to finding the situation ‘ a national scandal ’ . |
| 27 | Supported by a wide range of companies — including British Steel , which sponsored Chay when he first completed the route 21 years ago — each of the 10 steel-hulled ‘ sloops ’ are identical . |
| 28 | Picking up the story thirty years on , Peter Bogdanovich 's eagerly anticipated sequel to THE LAST PICTURE SHOW substitutes elegiac lament with a wry comedy of the trials and absurdities of disillusioned middle-age . |
| 29 | The Blancs , who have lived in the cottage seven years , spent a long time looking at many ranges before deciding on the white Miele kitchen with its terracotta trim . |
| 30 | Carol Clark met the psychologist 6 years ago . |