Example sentences of "year [adv] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not an obvious cumulative line through O level , it 's more an impression of probably things that they will come across over the next seven years just to transmit the fun and the excitement . |
| 2 | Once they 'd moved in , it took them three years just to make the necessary structural changes , but with a neglected 350-year-old house that was to be expected . |
| 3 | Only a few months earlier the USDOE had decided that the prospect of nuclear fusion by the ‘ conventional ’ route was still too many years away to meet the Pentagon 's urgent needs for tritium . |
| 4 | Simply setting money aside now does not in any way guarantee the output of goods and services x years hence to meet the needs of old people ; neither does lending money at a profit . |
| 5 | Eusebio played that night , and again when United beat Benfica at Wembley two years later to lift the European Cup and enshrine a friendship between the two clubs which still leaves its mark in Lisbon . |
| 6 | Setting up on his own six years later to provide a service for companies recruiting people in this field , he charged a $200 non-returnable retainer , which was subsequently deducted from his commission : 5% of the successful candidate 's first year 's salary . |
| 7 | Although succeeding his father as vicar of St John 's in 1885 , he resigned two years later to pursue a scientific career . |
| 8 | Erle returned to Dorset a few years later to become a ship-money refuser and to head the poll in the county election of March 1640 ; but he resigned the seat to George Digby , second Earl of Bristol [ q.v. ] , and served for Lyme Regis in the Short Parliament , to which he reported on innovations in religion . |
| 9 | If Donald Rose was the father , he was no longer around to become involved in his son 's upbringing , and even June , masquerading as the sister , left home four years later to become an Earl Carroll showgirl in Miami . |
| 10 | He was appointed surgeon dentist to the Royal Public dispensary ( 1857 ) , but resigned two years later to establish an institution devoted to dental treatment , the Edinburgh Dental Dispensary , which opened in 1860 . |
| 11 | The appeal aims to raise £2 million over the next five years both to preserve the countryside and to finance education work in the area . |
| 12 | It had started out as a ship 's boiler but Selwyn had acquired it some years before to ensure a plentiful supply of soft water for his garden . |
| 13 | ‘ With all this background work on which to draw , I decided two years ago to mount an experimental project which would define the difference between nature and nurture . |
| 14 | It was built only 30 years ago to service the huge and ambitious Ord River reservoir and irrigation scheme , but it gives a fascinating glimpse into the colossal pioneering effort needed to transform the arid outback into a workable landscape . |
| 15 | I chose many years ago to explore the avenue of detailed drawings of wildlife and I have largely stuck with the same technique . |
| 16 | I chose many years ago to explore the avenue of detailed drawings of wildlife and I have largely stuck with the same technique . |
| 17 | Former British Lions captain John Dawes , brought in two years ago to halt the slide of the Richmond-based club , insists : ‘ We had four dreadful years but I honestly believe we can climb back up again . ’ |
| 18 | The writer Michael Viney left Dublin 13 years ago to live a life of peace and self-sufficiency in a remote house , from whose windows he can now glimpse the drilling rig ( see Scenes from a Provincial Life , page 53 ) . |
| 19 | If he makes it — and many experts think he can — it will be a massive vindication of his decision four years ago to quit a promising school career after no fewer than nine O-levels , giving up the chance of A-levels and university to turn squash professional at the tender age of just 17 . |
| 20 | Not even in the way that Olvia must have died years ago to serve the Emperor — but to sate one mad woman 's vengeance . |
| 21 | Set up ten years ago to serve the telecoms , avionics and space research markets , Labtech currently employs 38 staff . |
| 22 | In the meanwhile , the British system devised by Lord Waverley forty years ago to retain the works of art most essential to Britian 's artistic and historical heritage will be a largely pointless administrative hoop-la as works of art are declared to be national patrimony by the committees of experts , and then are exported anyway for lack of funds . |
| 23 | Ubhejane is a boy who leaves his village in search of his father , Sikulu , who had left the village years ago to defend the rights of black South Africans . |
| 24 | Well , I have done the photography for the front cover and er of this particular book , but countryside books , who are the publishers , were asked a number of years ago to republish the old Berkshire village book and that has started a whole series of countryside village books , which now cover , I think , about thirty five different counties . |
| 25 | ‘ We went to school together , and then Simone came out here about two years ago to open the boutique . |
| 26 | I used to I used to pay fifteen quid for the years ago to rent the set |
| 27 | BATTERED by low prices for oil and gas , Bow Valley Industries , an energy company based in Calgary , Alberta , with sales of C$142m ( $100m ) in 1992 , decided two years ago to rethink the way it did business . |
| 28 | The restoration follows work two years ago to stabilise the external circuit of the walls . |
| 29 | What had happened three years ago to frighten the Constable so much ? |
| 30 | Famous for its marketing campaign that guaranteed bug-free software — if you found a bug you could claim a VW Beetle from the company — Ready Systems embarked on an ambitious project two and a half years ago to build a completely new tool suite . |