Example sentences of "year a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But still , it would be satisfying if he ever experienced in future years a tinge of regret that he had not appreciated the potentialities of the young schoolgirl he had coached with such distressing kindness . |
| 2 | In recent years a road in Funchal has been named after Sister Mary Jane Wilson . |
| 3 | However , in the past twenty years a variety of new approaches has evolved , beyond clinics on the one hand and mental hospitals on the other , to provide a more easily accessible ‘ user-friendly ’ , informal ‘ open-door ’ facility . |
| 4 | After a lapse of three years a variety of centres emerged in 1973/74 ; by October 1982 there were 38 centres around the country , and by 1987 — 88 61 . |
| 5 | Over the last few years a breed of bouncer has evolved , a Rottweiler in a bow-tie , who likes doing serious harm to lippy young men . |
| 6 | Liverpool- born , Oliver was for five years a chorister at St Paul 's Cathedral before going on to study at Oxford University where he met with his first operatic success in The Duchess of Malfi . |
| 7 | But roughly every five years a tide of warm water ( up to 30°C ) flows down the coast from the equator ; the nutrients in this water have already been removed by equatorial plankton . |
| 8 | For many years a mixture of alumina and glass was used because the glass gave a good visual approximation to a natural tooth while the alumina was sufficiently strong to cope with biting loads . |
| 9 | For several years a register of marriages and baptisms was regularly kept ; but since the Parliamentry Churches , with the districts annexed , were erected into parishes quoad sacra , the minister at Portnahaven baptizes and marries without having the names of the parties entered in the parish register . " |
| 10 | For several years a register of marriages and baptisms was regularly kept ; but since the Parliamentry Churches , with the districts annexed , were erected into parishes quoad sacra , the minister at Portnahaven baptizes and marries without having the names of the parties entered in the parish register . " |
| 11 | Over the last 20 years a pint of milk has increased five-fold from 5p to 26p today , and a loaf of bread has gone up from 10p to 47p . |
| 12 | The poster was by John Gilroy , the creator of the Guinness menagerie , from an idea by Stanley Penn , for many years a copywriter for the Guinness ads . |
| 13 | Some notable Vietnam veterans , like Senator John McCain , for years a prisoner of war , are adamantly opposed to intervention . |
| 14 | Last year , Sir Richard Body brought in a private member 's bill to introduce within five years a ban on the use of sow stalls and tethers — devices that make it easier and cheaper to manage the animals during their four months of pregnancy . |
| 15 | Barber was a member of the council of the Royal Institute of Chemistry ( 1960–63 ) and vice-president ( 1963–64 ) , chairman of the Essex Section ( 1967–68 ) , and for many years a member of other institute committees . |
| 16 | To one long years a member of a brotherhood the wording was significant . |
| 17 | A hard-working Society member , for many years a member of the National Display Team and nore recently of the Surrey and Sussex team , she has been putting the latter through their paces for ‘ In the Pink ’ , the ball item first performed at last year 's Reunion . |
| 18 | " Yes , " said Clara , beginning to understand the nature of her mother 's satisfaction ; the lack of telephone of Mrs Hanney had been for some years a subject for discourse in a vein of amazed contempt . |
| 19 | Notwithstanding the recent flurry of statutory and quasi-statutory regulatory activity in relation to insider dealing in the UK , there has operated for a number of years a range of sanctions aimed at deterring insider abuse in both the corporate/ unorthodox context and the individual/traditional context . |
| 20 | For twelve years a plateau of sea |
| 21 | More children came with monotonous regularity ; within eleven years a total of ten children were born ( of whom three did not survive ) . |
| 22 | In those six years a total of DFl. 57 million was spent on art by private individuals , an amount which , according to a recent investigation , would have been considerably less had the system not existed . |
| 23 | In the first six years a total of 266 reviews were conducted identifying annual savings of –600m with an additional 67m of one-off savings ( Making Things Happen , 1985 , p. 9 ) . |
| 24 | In July 1944 Attlee presented a paper on ‘ Foreign Policy and the Flying Bomb ’ , which pointed out that it would henceforth be impossible for Britain to rely upon the English Channel as a defence against her enemies : From our point of view , Norway , Denmark , Holland and France are necessary outposts of Britain and , in as much as Britain is now as she has been for a hundred years a shield for the U.S. , outposts of America as well . |
| 25 | , James ( fl. 1774 ) , clergyman , teacher , and lexicographer , was for many years a curate at All Saints ' Church , Edmonton , Middlesex , and a teacher at schools in Goodman 's Fields and Tottenham . |
| 26 | Over the past two hundred years a degree of protection has been accorded to the tenant against the distraining landlord . |
| 27 | Namibia was reportedly to seek IMF and World Bank membership , and was to remain for at least two years a part of the Southern African Customs Union . |
| 28 | Smith himself was for a few years a tutor at Christ Church , but in 1795 he resigned his studentship to become incumbent of Daventry ( a Christ Church living ) , returning to Christ Church as a canon in 1807 . |
| 29 | Though the thrust of the biographical sources is certainly to the effect that Molla Fenari was during these years a figure of immense importance in the state , there is very little in the way of evidence about him or his activities . |
| 30 | Most of the new people who 'd be coming over in the last couple of years a lot of them would n't be coming out to our concerts yet because they would probably be into a more younger scene like the Mary Blacks , maybe or the Christian Moore or somebody like that you would be catering for a younger audience and the the second third generation would be coming out to the First to the Foster and Allens and the Daniel O'Donnells and the Brendan Shines you know . |