Example sentences of "year a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roger Howell was an exception : for many years a professor at Bowdoin College in Maine , he was also an historian with a considerable reputation , and many friends , in Britain . |
| 2 | ODDLY enough , although he was for almost 50 years a pillar of the British dance band scene , by his own account Joe Crossman 's only popular acclaim was given to him in the United States for his beautiful alto saxophone solo on Stanley Black 's mid-Forties recording of Django Reinhardt 's ballad ‘ Nuages ’ . |
| 3 | As has been seen , the progress of Thatcherism had been erratic , even hesitant , since 1979 , though the Falklands victory had given the record of the past four years a spurious consistency . |
| 4 | In five years a machine is counted as nothing in the balance sheet , but people count and age makes them more experienced , gives them better judgement — if they 're capable of learning , which most people are . |
| 5 | From the inter-war years a small number of tennis professionals played tournaments in the United States . |
| 6 | The lesson was learned , and in subsequent years a photocall has been organized for the first day , when the Prince and Princess pose sweetly for the cameras on the understanding that thereafter the media will go home so the two can holiday in peace . |
| 7 | As Diane Bailey 's Curtis Cup team were chosen in 1986 that means that in four of the past five years a team have come top of the poll . |
| 8 | The Faroe Islands are self-governing , but have been for many years a colony of Denmark , and still rely on the government of the old mother country for international representation . |
| 9 | Almost alone among its peers , Britain will see over the next 20 years a small decline in its old-age dependency ratio ( the number of people aged over 65 as a proportion of the working population ) . |
| 10 | It is true that over the years a few railway signalmen have been convicted of manslaughter for wrongful acts and omissions leading to fatal train crashes , but there is not the natural resort to the criminal law which is now a feature of road-traffic cases . |
| 11 | A bookmakers ' 2–1 favourite , he first confronts Stephen Murphy , of Dublin , three years a professional but raw to the aptly-named Crucible . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In good years a surplus might be produced which could be traded for money . |
| 14 | In the last few years a powerful controversy has arisen over whether the dinosaurs as a whole were cold-blooded , like all living reptiles ( and there is no doubt that dinosaurs were reptiles ) , or warm-blooded , resembling mammals in this respect . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Over a period of 30 years a number of surveillance systems were produced : first the U-2 Spy aircraft , followed by the incredibly fast SR-71 ( both of which are still in service today ) , and then a whole generation of satellites culminating in Rhyolite ( see page 28 ) . |
| 17 | In recent years a critical consensus has gradually been forming as to the nature of postmodernism . |
| 18 | The word ‘ station ’ , which originally meant simply a stopping-place , has acquired over the years a more disciplinary , structural , and organizational connotation . |
| 19 | However , the cost of repairs , lack of heirs and financial or family problems inevitably mean that every two or three years a great house faces sale and break-up . |
| 20 | The most promising compounds were selected and studied in many laboratories , and in the next few years a substantial number of monoamine oxidase inhibitors went into clinical trials , and some into widespread clinical use . |
| 21 | In recent years a number of working reconstructions of de' Dondi 's clock have been made . |
| 22 | In the last few years a more objective method , based on the properties of the material erupted has been devised . |
| 23 | Generally the curriculum following the three ‘ R ’ s , tonic sol-fa notation for music , Irish and English history , drawing ( both freehand and scale ) , geography and in later years a little elementary science . |
| 24 | Consider life expectancy , a measure indicating the number of years a newborn infant could typically be expected to live if patterns of mortality prevailing for all people in the year of its birth were to stay the same throughout its life . |
| 25 | For thousands of years a few men have searched for these human fruits ; they have filled their minds with the lovely ideas and have taken up their long search and watch on the lonely shore of the other world . |
| 26 | For thirty years a charity , financed in part from police pay , had helped supplement the clothing of the city poor . |
| 27 | During the past few years a number of different models for hospital services for attempted suicide patients have been developed . |
| 28 | In some years a high proportion of the birds involved are adult males . |
| 29 | More children came with monotonous regularity ; within eleven years a total of ten children were born ( of whom three did not survive ) . |
| 30 | During recent years a number of textbooks on online searching have been published , for example Henry et al . |