Example sentences of "year [adv] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | VETERANS of England 's last strife-torn Test series in India eight years ago have warned of the dangers and sacrifices that will have to be faced if Lord 's insist on going ahead with an 11-week tour at the end of this month . |
| 32 | The band who were committed to the Abba revival and flares fives years ago have come out of retirement and intend to convert a whole new audience to their zany cocktail of punk , glam and psychedelia . |
| 33 | Police in Jersey searching for the bodies of Nicholas and Elizabeth who were killed six years ago have found what appear to be human remains . |
| 34 | Jersey police hunting for the bodies of a couple believed murdered six years ago have found what appear to be human remains after their son , Roderick Newall , helped with the search . |
| 35 | Many who were angry three years ago have cooled . |
| 36 | Police searching for the remains of a woman who went missing twenty years ago have recovered a body . |
| 37 | joined the personnel team two years ago having moved to the area from Chester . |
| 38 | The bright future predicted when Crawford had travelled to Hollywood two years earlier had turned sour . |
| 39 | An instant later she recalled the forty-year-old lady , who twenty-five years earlier had stood in the same place and had waved at her father in the same way . |
| 40 | Soon after came David Cork , an inventive inside-forward once with Arsenal and Huddersfield , and York 's Kevan Smith , who two years earlier had played with Coventry . |
| 41 | On 3rd July 1892 , a cloud burst on a hill to the west of Langtoft , on almost the same spot where the waterspout of four years earlier had fallen , gouging out two great fissures in the chalk , and rushing along the valley of Briggate towards the village . |
| 42 | But the pope , who two years earlier had confirmed the forged privilege guaranteeing the existence of the monastic community at Canterbury , warily told him to have the matter of the primacy discussed in a provincial council in the presence of a papal legate . |
| 43 | The first nude statue to be unveiled in London was the work of Sir Richard Westmacott and showed the Greek warrior Achilles in all his manliness ; a subject that had been chosen to represent the all-conquering powers of the Duke of Wellington , who seven years earlier had trounced the French at Waterloo . |
| 44 | Few Yek were happy at sea , and a ship-borne invasion of Y'frike years earlier had come close to failure at one point because the reinforcements delivered to its shores had been so weakened by the effects of their voyage . |
| 45 | I wondered what memories were passing through the minds of the other members of the group , especially those that 50 years earlier had paid a flying visit to Norway in rather different circumstances . |
| 46 | One might make the assumption that these are the same son of people who a few years earlier had enjoyed and had been moved by the pageantry of George V 's Jubilee and by George VI 's Coronation . |
| 47 | Freddie Head , rider of Pistol Packer , opined that ‘ Mill Reef was the best horse I 've ever seen ’ , and the French press compared him with the horse whose stunning victory in the Arc six years earlier had marked him out as the very best horse of the era : ‘ Comme Sea Bird II — mais plus vite ’ , raved Paris-Turf He was indeed plus vite , for his Arc time of 2 minutes 28.3 seconds set a new course record . |
| 48 | Civilian and police press officers attached to RUC Headquarters , Belfast retailed various smear stories against Irwin , including a claim that he was bitter and vindictive against the police because they had failed to arrest a soldier who , it was alleged , three years earlier had raped his wife . |
| 49 | Peacock was indeed a director of the Bank of England ; but he was also the partner in Baring 's who two years earlier had succeeded the late Lord Revelstoke as adviser on the King 's private finances . |
| 50 | Years abroad had made me wary of what I said on the telephone . |
| 51 | Years abroad had made them grateful for yams , bananas , cocoa beans and rice . |
| 52 | Popham Down was a 66–1 outsider for the 1967 Grand National — a decent price for a horse who three years previously had won the Scottish equivalent at Bogside — but his backers did not enjoy much of a run for their money . |
| 53 | The people which only a few years previously had committed brutal genocide and waged a terrible war of destruction suddenly found themselves in the role of the great advocate of justice . |
| 54 | But this realisation , which only the year before had excited her , merely pleased her . |
| 55 | Hugh Gaitskell , an economics don and wartime civil servant who was elected to Parliament in 1945 and in six years rose from backbencher to Chancellor of the Exchequer , illustrates with his diary entry for 14 October 1947 ( when he was Minister of Fuel and Power ) just how little impact Attlee 's directive of a year before had had on the performance of individuals : |
| 56 | All I knew about her was that she was a Quaker elder , had a bad back and a year ago had wanted either my studio or garden to give relaxation classes in . |
| 57 | He had been moved from the Royal Alexandria Hospital , Paisley , to the private Alexandra Nursing Home almost a year earlier having suffered brain damage after a stabbing incident . |
| 58 | The warmest praise came from John Berger , who the year previously had included Minton in his ‘ Looking Forward ’ exhibition at the Whitechapel Art Gallery . |