Example sentences of "and [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1785 the owner was William Fryer and that year he leased the mill for 21 years to the partnership of Henry Hicks and Edward Sheppard who , in years to come , were to found one of the county 's largest cloth mills in Uley . |
| 2 | Who remembers that day and that year . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ And that year ? ’ |
| 4 | In 1944 he was appointed planning consultant to Birkenhead and that year sketched out an estate plan ‘ of houses round greens , as in pre-Industrial Revolution England , and the greens themselves arranged like the petals of a Mower round a community building , the modern equivalent of the village inn ’ ( Wolfe , 1945 , p. 10 ) . |
| 5 | The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole , published posthumously in 1934 , mirrored these bitter and penurious years . |
| 6 | Mr wife and his four year old and eleven year old sons . |
| 7 | Three members of the family were pulled from their beds : Mr Miah 's wife and his four year old and eleven year old sons . |
| 8 | Boys tend to have a resurgence of negativism between ten and eleven years of age . |
| 9 | She 'd survived , however , and eleven years later was still a resident in a hospice in Sussex , witless as ever . |
| 10 | ‘ There are 47 schools in the area taking part in the project , and we ‘ re hoping to reach children in the nine , ten and eleven years ‘ age brackets , ’ said Nick . |
| 11 | ‘ But those miscarriages were ten and eleven years ago . |
| 12 | Because of its popularity the party had to be restricted to those aged between four and eleven years old . |
| 13 | They shared the same social defect — seasonal unemployment — and the same natural hazards — extreme variability in yield between bad and normal years . |
| 14 | The median duration of glue ear assessed otoscopically reduced from 6.1 years without surgery to 3.5 years with tubes , 3.4 years after adenoidectomy , and 2.3 years with the combination of adenoidectomy and tubes . |
| 15 | And are you able to tell me , Inspector , how a hundred and fifty year old dress sword came to be sharp enough to sever a man 's head ? ’ |
| 16 | A deliciously dotty old lady afternoon : the three other researchers there had at least two hundred and fifty years of living between them . |
| 17 | That anyone of Milner 's mental power and insight could envisage a course of events which ran contrary both to the logic and experience of the actual British Empire over a hundred and fifty years is a staggering fact . |
| 18 | But to me it 's innately dishonest to make claims that a cream that is basically oil and water is going to take grief and stress and fifty years of living in the sun off your face . |
| 19 | The most amazing thing about it is the brickwork , which after three hundred and fifty years has hardly softened or worn at all despite its exposure to south-westerly winds and salty sea air . |
| 20 | As has often been the case , it is the artists who are the forerunners of fashion , and fifty years later the world and his wife craved for Windermere . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'd like to live twenty-five years with ten legs or two hundred and fifty years with one leg . ’ |
| 22 | Thirty , forty years ago , that would not have been allowed to happen , and fifty years ago , the women would not have been allowed here at all . |
| 23 | How does this particular religious tradition shape up at the end of the twentieth century , particularly in the context of those challenges that it has faced over the last hundred and fifty years from movements in secular thought like Darwinism , Marxism and Positivism ? |
| 24 | Should the theologian attempt to make use of philosophy in the way that those who have not reacted against Biblical Criticism over the last hundred and fifty years have learned to make use of history ? |
| 25 | ‘ Three hundred and fifty years , give or take a few . ’ |
| 26 | One hundred and fifty years of glamour sitting on a stool right before your very eyes , that 's what she was . |
| 27 | One hundred and fifty years ago Daguerre in Paris and Talbot in London announced the invention of photographs . |
| 28 | It is reputed to be a hundred and fifty years old . ’ |
| 29 | One hundred and fifty years ago it did not exist , but at the opening of the present decade the UK alone claimed to generate a thousand new jobs a week in the travel and tourism sector . |
| 30 | Travel agents are now a familiar sight in towns and cities across the world but one hundred and fifty years ago there were very few . |