Example sentences of "year [adv] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1940 the level had doubled and 40 years on had trebled , suggesting that the majority of dioxins originate from fuel burning , particularly steam boilers and domestic fires burning coal , rather than the chemical industry or industrial products containing chlorine . |
| 2 | His eyes sparkle at the prospect of retiring three years hence having established Ruby in particular as possibly a bigger money spinner even than Staley 's high fructose corn syrup . |
| 3 | He inspired the Prince , worked alongside him , coached him in the ways of business , schooled him in the art of responsible land management , encouraged him to try out new ideas , and helped turn the Duchy from a non-profit making concern into one that five years later had made net profits of £1.46 million . |
| 4 | This noticeboard had already played a significant part in my life : nearly thirty years before then it had displayed the result of my own first degree ( second-class honours ) ; a few years later had come the perfunctory notice saying my doctoral thesis had been accepted by the college ; and shortly after that an even briefer note to the effect that I had joined the teaching staff . |
| 5 | In 12 patients ( 20% ) the serum creatinine concentration did not return to below 300 µmol/l ; one of these had a subsequent deterioration in renal function and two years later had started dialysis . |
| 6 | The penny farthing was an extremely difficult bicycle to ride , but Thomas Stevens left San Francisco on one in 1884 and returned two years later having ridden 13,500 miles round the world . |
| 7 | He died two years later having served as a collector for nearly twenty-seven years . |
| 8 | The Japanese learned that their Far Eastern neighbours were better at making portable radios and black and white televisions and for some years now have passed over production of these items when only 10 years ago they were world leaders . |
| 9 | The violence of this transition became more cushioned for me in the mid-seventies , when we built our bamboo and coconut-wood home in the highlands of Bali , which for seven years now has served us as a sort of decompression chamber between the two worlds . |
| 10 | The old mistake made in a bathroom in Oxford twenty years before had fixed her course and all she could do was to walk it . |
| 11 | Noting in passing how conclusively the ‘ frigifaire paten ’ rules out any notion of a translation of propertius ( unless it were a translation in the sense of a raucous travesty or ‘ put-down ’ — and indeed some academic latinists did misconceive Pound 's poem in that way ) , some early readers were understandably disconcerted by the inversions of conversational or prosaic word-order — ‘ Happy who ’ , ‘ Stands genius ’ — especially from a poet who some years before had seemed to polemicize for just that rule about word-order which he here flouted . |
| 12 | Beijing University students fifty years before had dared to protest against the first Japanese invasion and Chiang Kaishek 's apparent complicity in their designs in what become known as the ‘ December Ninth ’ movement . |
| 13 | This was a quite remarkable transformation in a man who only two years before had talked of dying : neither fame nor literary achievement had brought him any contentment , and in the end it was human love , the love that he had dismissed in his writings as the consolation only of ordinary men , that rescued him from a lifetime of misery and isolation . |
| 14 | He had reached the age when friends and companions were beginning to die around him , and in the spring of this year he composed memorial addresses for two of them : William Collin Brooks , who ten years before had encouraged Valerie Fletcher to apply for the post of Eliot 's secretary , and Father Eric Cheetham , who had " taken in " Eliot after the separation from Vivien . |
| 15 | Kevin had formerly sponsored show jumping , but five years ago had run off with Janey , the wife of Billy Lloyd-Foxe , one of his professionals and Rupert Campbell-Black 's best friend . |
| 16 | A correspondent learned to do that , even if he no longer needed to practise his profession — the best-selling book he had written years ago had given blessed financial independence . |
| 17 | But the Russians of Torpedo Moscow hit back when Igor Chuganov beat Peter Schmeichel , who two years ago had led his former club Brondby to penalty glory in the same stadium . |
| 18 | The people were so strong in the faith for which their forebears had fought and suffered ; their steadfastness and courage , handed down through the ages , lived on in the men and women who only a few years ago had defied the invader of their homeland . |
| 19 | The white , scoured branches of trees that years ago had eked out an existence at a sheltered place beneath the cliff , lay about like pieces of sculpture , fashioned by the weather . |
| 20 | A reconstruction of how the burial mound must have looked four thousand years ago has led experts to believe the ceremonies were linked to the appearance of the midsummer sun . |
| 21 | A VITAL search to help her baby 20 years ago has led Brenda Adey to a new career . |
| 22 | The dual-presenter format which ITN has stuck with since News At Ten 's launch 25 years ago has given way to McDonald sitting alone in the style of a US network star like Dan Rather . |
| 23 | The man who saved The Roses Theatre from closure twelve years ago has lost his fight to stay in control . |
| 24 | A RACEHORSE tycoon named as one of Britain 's richest men two years ago has called in the receivers . |
| 25 | A UNITED States air force pilot forced to crash land in Donegal 50 years ago has returned to Ireland . |
| 26 | A woman whose wedding ring was stolen eight years ago has got it back . |
| 27 | TELEVISION footage of a youth soccer match at Wembley 18 years ago has prompted a search by a former Merseyside non-league player for a permanent record of the game . |
| 28 | A MAN who fled to Australia to avoid a court appearance eleven years ago has come home only to be locked up . |
| 29 | A woman who learnt to dive just three years ago has found a Viking relic which is more than a thousand years old . |
| 30 | An international enquiry into the mysterious death of UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold more than thirty years ago has re-opened following evidence from a retired diplomat . |