Example sentences of "year [adv] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lee Anthony Roberts , aged 20 , the sex offender scarred for life when his five-year-old victim 's mother poured boiling water over his trousers , had his nine-year youth custody sentence for rape , imposed at Exeter Crown Court in November last year , cut to six years yesterday by the Court of Appeal . |
| 2 | The land had been raped years past by the sea . |
| 3 | A comprehensive review of the problem of attempted suicide and its management was carried out a few years later by a committee chaired by Sir Denis Hill . |
| 4 | He was speared to death six years later by a Masai whose favourite bullock he insisted on requisitioning for a government destocking programme . |
| 5 | Interestingly , when Laura was told about this incident years later by a researcher preparing an internal history of the company , she could not accept it . |
| 6 | In Russia that introduced in 1859 had been sat two years later by a mere five candidates in all . |
| 7 | The term ‘ Palestine ’ was coined over 1,000 years later by the Romans who renamed the country after the ancient Philistines in an attempt to de-Judaise the Holy Land and expunge all Jewish references . |
| 8 | The view that almost everyone except the Commission subscribed to was summed up a few years later by the UN Economic Commission for Europe when it wrote in a report on damage surveys in many countries : ‘ Research results obtained so far indicate that air pollution is an essential , causal factor in the destabilisation of forests or even in the breakdown of some forest ecosystems . ’ |
| 9 | In 1968 , St Peter 's Primary School opened , to be followed eight years later by the opening of the church . |
| 10 | The authorizing of a new ordination service for the clergy in 1550 was followed two years later by the appearance of a second Edwardian Prayer Book , and by the last months of Edward 's reign the country was officially Protestant . |
| 11 | While there were , therefore , good grounds for pessimism about future progress , the question of whether integration could proceed beyond a limited sectoral level was answered three years later by the Treaty of Rome . |
| 12 | That was followed a few years later by the Meadows situation in Dallas , Texas , where Alger Meadows had bought from two travelling Frenchmen a whole collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works which were all fakes . |
| 13 | This sentiment was repeated a few years later by the Newsom Report in relation to average ability working-class adolescents . |
| 14 | However , he considered that only locomotives with a single pair of driving wheels were really suitable for express-train service and the first of these were built in 1868 , followed two years later by the larger 4–2–2 type with outside cylinders and driving wheels eight feet in diameter , whose simple and elegant outline created great interest . |
| 15 | A similar suggestion was made a few years later by the French scientist the Marquis de Laplace , apparently independently of Michell . |
| 16 | It was attractive with a fresh , clean image but was not sufficiently robust to withstand stacking on shelves and customer handling and was replaced three years later by the ‘ France Oeuf ’ carton . |
| 17 | The first UK haulier to be accredited , in June 89 , was voted ‘ Quality haulier of the Year ’ two years later by the Motor Transport Industries . |
| 18 | The stables of the castle had been bought from the Sanvitale family a few years before by a family from Milan ( but of Fontanellato origin ) called the Gandini . |
| 19 | Like Mary Kingsley she was down-to-earth and when her expedition reached Abu Simbel she was horrified to see that the colossal figure of Rameses II was disfigured by plaster left on it fifty years before by an enthusiastic cast-maker . |
| 20 | VICTIM SUPPORT has come a long way from the six-month experiment set up 10 years ago by a group of concerned professionals in Bristol . |
| 21 | Fr Rice has taken over the running of a detoxification centre started some years ago by a Mill Hill priest who died recently . |
| 22 | The message behind the television and radio campaign was reinforced by a mother who told of her only daughter being killed three years ago by a drunken motorist . |
| 23 | Today 's reading was written nearly 400 years ago by a poet called John Donne who was a clergyman , the Dean of St Paul 's Cathedral in 1621 . |
| 24 | The fact that the polecat with young was sighted three years ago by a grumpy shepherd looking for a lost lamb at 5.30 a.m. on a March morning , two miles away from post number seven , is irrelevant . |
| 25 | What was thought to have been an alga growing on sandstone rocks in a dry valley of Antarctica , was identified only two years ago by a Smithsonian botanist as a lichen . |
| 26 | It was written almost 100 years ago by a little-known American . |
| 27 | An offending tree may have been planted many years ago by a previous owner . |
| 28 | Our own interest in dunnocks was aroused several years ago by a chance comment , made over a cup of coffee . |
| 29 | Preliminary information has indicated that usage of this model of belt was prohibited several years ago by a CAA Airworthiness Directive . |
| 30 | The task was carried out , in remarkable circumstances , more than forty years ago by a good friend of England , the French historian , Edouard Perroy . |