Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cinema-going was also increasing , with 101 million tickets the highest figure since 1980 sold last year . |
| 2 | Paris-based software and computer services company Generale de Service Informatique SA , or GSI , as it is better known , reported 1992 revenues up 8% to the equivalent of $460m , a rate of increase only half of that registered that year . |
| 3 | The argument is the same as that used 150 years before by Alexander I — and just as impossible for us to test . |
| 4 | In 1990 there were probably around 12,000 CD-ROM drives sold in the U.K. This doubled last year and could rise to over 30,000 this year . |
| 5 | Few expected this year 's spring sales at Sotheby 's and Christie 's to do much to revive spirits , or prices . |
| 6 | But all this changed two years back . |
| 7 | But only one out of 115 interviewed last year found work compared with one out of 52 the previous year . |
| 8 | But apparently this happened last year at this particular conference . |
| 9 | A Russian representative stayed for about a year in Stockholm in 1635 – 36 , and another spent four years in western Europe , mainly in the Dutch republic , in the early 1660s ; but both of these were sent for mainly commercial purposes and the second was an Englishman long resident in Russia . |
| 10 | This included five years with Edinburgh Corporation 's City Engineer 's Department and a four year stint with Lothian Regional Council as transportation engineer in the mid 1970s . |
| 11 | More than a hundred kids were wounded and more than 30 died last year . ’ |
| 12 | This time round , thinks Aidan Mullaly , a negotiator for TM Energy Consultants , the RECs are better prepared for the negotiating process and are unlikely to panic as some did last year at the threat of a loss of business . |
| 13 | Though enough was provided for requiem masses to be chanted ‘ for ever ’ , this lapsed 200 years later with the introduction of the Chantries Act . |
| 14 | The school built in 1872 closed many years ago and the school building and school house are now two very attractive residences . |
| 15 | This concluded three years of work by a joint RIBA/RIAS/RSUA/ACA Review Group chaired by Ian Thornton . |
| 16 | But just as suddenly as it had begun all this ended three years later , leaving the halls deserted . |
| 17 | Despite competing in a market that is shrinking fast , it reckons the extra appeal of the GT and G40 should increase 1991 sales by 7000 over the 30,000 sold last year . |
| 18 | It replaces the present system , where appeals are dealt with by the Department , with less than 10 made each year . |
| 19 | Thomson , born in India in 1914 , had Scottish parents , and until 1929 spent fourteen years of summer holidays and many other times in his grandmother 's family home , Newton , now a hotel , on the edge of Nairn . |
| 20 | reported on the steps taken in consequence of resolution 4.4 carried last year . |
| 21 | Serfaty 's unexpected release from Kenitra Jail on 13 September 1991 ended 17 years of imprisonment , and was one of the high points of Amnesty 's very successful Morocco campaign . |
| 22 | There is no point in blaming MacSharry , because that happened last year . |
| 23 | His move into stockbroking at the age of 21 followed two years ' training to be a chartered accountant which by his own admission he did n't enjoy . |
| 24 | All three voted last year to uphold Roe v Wade , the 1973 case that established a constitutional right to an abortion . |
| 25 | Thirteen had an acute or subacute self limiting condition , but the remaining three had several years history of recurrent obstructive symptoms . |
| 26 | These had many years earlier been started by Ffabian , Clocker , Hawkins , Gibson and Hagrig ( M. B. Donald includes the name Haukriggs ) and others . |
| 27 | That finished one year of Doctor Who production , the length originally agreed by Sydney Newman and Donald Wilson . |
| 28 | On the other hand , the French boasted they could make a neutron bomb , the US was still anguished over the spy story of Cheltenham as Prime got 35 years ' rumours of Brezhnev 's death proved true . |
| 29 | It all began forty-four years ago . |
| 30 | It all began 40 years ago when David was 18 and his father started him off farming at Mowbray House . |