Example sentences of "year since the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the past forty or so years since the railways passed into public ownership , the issue of social support — that is the extent to which unremunerative routes should be directly subsidised by the taxpayer — has never been entirely clear . |
| 2 | It 's only ten years since the Comedy Store opened , but already there is a note of wistfulness creeping in for the good old days . |
| 3 | More grist has filled the pessimists ' mill in the years since the Joint Declaration , as Peking has grown more assertive and London more timid . |
| 4 | It is just a few years since the club — whose anthem was : ‘ We are Millwall . |
| 5 | It was four years since the last Plan of Work was published — an indication , surely , of how low on the Government 's list of priorities is the place of safety at work . |
| 6 | In the fifty years since the TA was last called up for war there have been many changes . |
| 7 | The motion was moved by the Rev Canon John Dale ( Worcester ) who said it was five years since the request for legislation on women priests was made . |
| 8 | The trees had grown up beside it in the twenty-five years since the railway had closed , and the boy stopped every now and then to watch small birds hopping around the top branches . |
| 9 | The sapling trees had grown tall in the twenty-five years since the Beeching axe had fallen on the single railway track , and , even leafless as they were , they effectively screened the view from the top . |
| 10 | It was nearly forty years since the history master had bawled him out on the pavement over there , in front of the House of Commons . |
| 11 | For fifty years since the posthumous publication of Henri Pirenne 's Mahomet et Charlemagne ( 1937 ) scholars have been debating what they have labelled its ‘ thesis ’ : that the ancient rhythms of an undivided Mediterranean civilization had enough tenacity to survive Germanic invasions and settlements , and were disrupted and transformed only as a consequence of the spread of Muslim power , cutting the Mediterranean in half . |
| 12 | The 3 = 10 9 years since the origin of life has been more than sufficient for this number of generations . |
| 13 | In 1232 the Waverley annalist noted that it was now eight years since the king had confirmed the Great Charter and the Charter of the Forest and the bishops had pronounced sentence of excommunication against those who violated them . |
| 14 | IT IS more than 20 years since the novelist C P Snow delivered his Rede Lecture , The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution , and 20 since F R Leavis delivered his swingeing assault on Snow , which made the whole thing a subject of violent controversy , adding somewhat to the gaiety of that small part of the nation interested in academic ding-dong . |
| 15 | ‘ Take my word for it , I 've been going for 30 years since the well was a bucket in a hole in the ground , and there is plenty of water , ’ she said . |
| 16 | In the two years since the idea of a European bank was first mooted , the Soviet Union has gone from a net contributor to the bank 's budget to potentially its largest beneficiary . |
| 17 | Almost unbelievably it is 25 years since closure of the GC main line between Sheffield and London Marylebone , and 10 years since the last train crossed the Pennines via the Woodhead Route . |
| 18 | It is 2 years since the first edition of this booklet was printed and during this time there has been an enormous increase in interest in the use of LM potencies . |
| 19 | The simplest reason for the disappointing subscription is that the novelty of a kitchen maid poet had dissipated in the four years since the first subscription , especially among the gentry around Brackley who might now observe Philip Leapor enjoying the fruits of the first volume . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , it seems remarkable that the number of molecules predicted , in over 60 years since the creation of quantum mechanics , should be confined to one or two highly exotic cases . |
| 21 | In the years since the present conflict began , resources devoted to the eradication of illiteracy have been grossly insufficient . |
| 22 | Lochranza has been ignored in recent years since the only crossing to Arran is now at Brodick . |
| 23 | The practice of using the passage of years since the birth of Christ as a numbering system had its genesis in some work carried out by a monk , Dionysius Exiguus , in AD525 . |
| 24 | Its purpose was to rectify an accumulated error between the solar and calendar years since the modifications introduced by Augustus . |
| 25 | Here the NHS has made considerable progress in recent years since the introduction of the Appraisal of Options Procedure . |
| 26 | Instead an eclectic approach has been taken , highlighting some of the more significant work that has been done in the five years since the first edition of this book was published . |
| 27 | When Clarke wanted to prove the adequacy of CSM 's resources to do its work he cited the fact that , in the three years since the government came to office in 1979 , these had risen from £1.1 to £1.2 million a year — a cut in real terms , according to the retail price index , of well over 20 per cent . |
| 28 | It is now four years since the UN first backed the idea . |
| 29 | IT IS almost exactly 50 years since the world at large was first made aware of the monster of Loch Ness . |
| 30 | It is now 10 years since the last of the Apollo astronauts set foot on the lunar surface and there are no immediate plans for another visit . |