Example sentences of "years [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Steward may feel that the project is ‘ low key ’ , but when a nine acre sand and gravel pit is proposed to be worked for four years only a matter of 45 metres from the nearest residence and 280 metres from the centre of Cross Green ( Atlas Aggregate 's figures ) , the residents of Cockfield are entitled to feel differently . |
| 2 | Okay now we 've had this for twenty years so a lot of these have been resold of course . |
| 3 | After more than thirty years of such varied service she decided in the Autumn of 1987 on partial retirement , retaining for two more years merely the editorship of the newsletter and membership of the committee organising the centenary celebrations . |
| 4 | Over the coming years obviously the addition will be diluted as the graduates become the majority of our membership . |
| 5 | Three years later a branch was opened off this from Crewe Toll eastwards to Leith station , sited near Lindsay Road . |
| 6 | Ten years later a state of emergency is still in force , renewed in May 1991 for a further three years , and political detainees held incommunicado under emergency provisions continue to be denied basic protection against torture . |
| 7 | By 1800 , Nez Perce buffalo-hunting expeditions to the Yellowstone had become too dangerous , and five years later a council in the Kamiah valley resolved to obtain firearms for the tribe . |
| 8 | Fifteen years later a man of 76 , thinking he would like to try satellite television , collected the requisite number of newspaper coupons which would entitle him to a 30-day trial of a satellite dish . |
| 9 | Then several years later a gunman appeared in front of him : ‘ A man stood there , four feet away and fired a gun at me . |
| 10 | Then 40 years later a rejigging of the system ensured a lasting concentration of executive power in the hands of the mayor in City Hall . |
| 11 | Just over fifty years later a second Montevideo Congress produced a revised Convention , that on International Procedural Law of 19 March 1940 , To the existing text of what became Article 11 were added two further sentences , one requiring that letters rogatory be translated into the language of the state of destination and the other dispensing with the requirement of legalisation provided transmission was through the diplomatic ( or , in their absence , consular ) agents of the state of origin . |
| 12 | In 1894 he joined the Wilson Line in Hull as second mate of the SS Draco and three years later a chance meeting with the Norwegian explorer H. Borchgrevink , a passenger in his vessel , the Montebello , led to Colbeck 's joining the Southern Cross expedition ( 1898–1900 ) as magnetic observer , following an intensive course of instruction at Kew Observatory . |
| 13 | Only four years later a heart attack forced him into retirement . |
| 14 | Fifteen years later a treaty ended French frontier controversies with the city-republic of Geneva , while in 1760 another signed in Turin ( which incorporated a series of eight maps ) greatly simplified in the same way France 's south-eastern frontier . |
| 15 | Ten years later a cohort study in Iceland confirmed that male blood-relatives of women with breast cancer had an excess risk of prostate cancer . |
| 16 | Seven years later a cluster of names in a rental follows that of Ellice Hanmer , as he was generally known in his new parish . |
| 17 | These proposals were not adopted , they were seldom referred to although in the USA much physical geography did not develop in geography departments , but exactly 50 years later a paper with the same title as Barrows 's ( Chorley , 1973 ) sought to examine the extent to which the ecological approach to geography provided a unifying link between the human and physical sides of the subject . |
| 18 | Ten years later a note in the Minutes of the Garden Committee states that Miller had asked for a residence to be built in the Garden , but this was refused . |
| 19 | Even five years later a clergyman who came to a retreat which he conducted thought him the oddest sight , sartorially , which he had seen among academics . |
| 20 | When six years later a son was finally born , his new family simply threw him out and the poverty is so great in the region that one month spent begging and homeless brought him to death 's door . |
| 21 | Three years later a locomotive crashed , and they were called in to rebuild it . |
| 22 | In 1895 the Congregational Chapel in Aylesbury agreed to repeat the Lord 's Prayer during Sunday services ; three years later the Church accepted a proposal from its younger members to have a vase of flowers in chapel during services and someone donated a vase . |
| 23 | Two years later the Union President , J. G. Greenhough , called up the old world to attack the new : he expounded traditional Calvinism with its high doctrine of church order although he accepted that it had ‘ little favour ’ in 1895 . |
| 24 | Ten years later the brewery embarked on a substantial redevelopment programme and rechristened the pub The Brown Trout ‘ to bring it more into keeping with Darlington ’ . |
| 25 | Eight years later the Crown introduced into the Lords a bill concerning the authority and enforcement of proclamations . |
| 26 | Four years later the Order of the Garter was formally instituted as a fellowship of twenty-six knights bound together by oath as companions to help one another and their king . |
| 27 | Three years later the tally had risen to seventeen countries , between them operating 167 nuclear reactors . |
| 28 | Two years later the campaign waged by his mother , Marilyn Brown resulted in his release . |
| 29 | A few years later the duchy of Austria was awarded to one of the sons of Rudolph of Habsburg . |
| 30 | Twenty years later the AEC demonstrates that this remains no less true now than it was then . |