Example sentences of "years to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE Gulf War hostage dubbed the ‘ Bride of Baghdad ’ has had a baby girl … exactly two years to the HOUR after she was captured in Iraq . |
| 2 | A lot of encouragement has been given in recent years to the idea of increasing one 's roses by making cuttings — almost proposing it seems , that it is a way of avoiding the cost of buying new plants . |
| 3 | In 1884 he was articled for three years to the architect Robert Edis . |
| 4 | But until last night , there had been no clear line over what would happen in future years to the Government 's remaining holdings in these utilities . |
| 5 | Just after the end of the Falklands conflict , my second husband died , suddenly and unexpectedly , almost forty years to the day after he had been wounded and taken prisoner at Tobruk while serving with the Royal Durban Light Infantry in the ill-fated 2nd South African Division . |
| 6 | ‘ Almost 15 years to the day after the first pulsar was found at Cambridge … |
| 7 | To mark the Golden Jubilee in 1937 and on the occasion of its Consecration by Bishop Poskitt , 50 years to the day after its opening , three new marble altars dedicated to the Sacred Heart , Our Lady and St Patrick were placed in the church . |
| 8 | The Parliament Act provides merely that the life of Parliament will end by effluxion of time , five years to the day after its first meeting , only if it has not previously been dissolved by the monarch and , these days , it invariably is . |
| 9 | Aston Villa manager Ron Atkinson last night heightened the tension surrounding today 's Premier League match of the day by recalling that it is six years to the day since Manchester United sacked him . |
| 10 | their debut single reissued on limited edition CD and seven-inch format , 30 years to the day after it was originally released |
| 11 | TWO years to the day after Chernobyl blew up , Valeri Legasov hanged himself from the balustrade in the stairwell of his Moscow house . |
| 12 | Twenty-five years to the day since England beat West Germany 4–2 in extra time at Wembley to win the World Cup for the first time and , so far , only time in a glorious ( etc , etc — the back pages that morning were awash , as they had been for days , with nostalgia and breast-beating and rush-of-blood reminiscence ) footballing history ; the apotheosis of the game , which , according to one writer at the time , ‘ lives like an extra pulse in the people of industrial England . ’ |
| 13 | Is the Secretary of State aware that it is almost three years to the day that we heard of the Clapham rail tragedy , which was caused by faulty signalling and negligence ? |
| 14 | The ceremony , at the Legislative Assembly in Port-au-Prince , the capital , was five years to the day since the popular overthrow of " President for Life " Jean-Claude Duvalier . |
| 15 | Coming two years to the day after the massacre in Tbilisi of 20 Georgian nationalist demonstrators by Soviet troops [ see p. 36593 ] , the declaration followed the overwhelming " yes " vote in Georgia 's March 31 independence referendum [ see pp. 38078-79 ] . |
| 16 | It was nearly 21 years to the day since joined ( as it was then ) as a salesman in Dorset . |
| 17 | Cadets from Forres , Lossiemouth and Aberdeen Airport decided to research the accident and erect a cairn and plaque commemorating the crash exactly 50 years to the day after the accident . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's just a small celebration in honour of the fact that it 's six years to the day tomorrow since Filippo and I met — ’ She broke off and giggled . |
| 19 | 5 years to the day , the Rogers family were in the television room of the Herald of Free Enterprise , when it capsized just outside Zeebrugge . |
| 20 | On Monday Glen Hoddle 's red and white army will march on Wembley … they 've been there before … its three years to the day since they beat Sunderland but overnight promotion turned into relegation as the illegal payments scandal wrecked the club … |
| 21 | It 's three years to the day since Tony Alliss died from gunshot wounds . |
| 22 | Fifty years to the day that the tragedy happened , outside St Laurence church in Winslow , survivors and victims relatives wait for the ceremony to begin Among them , a contingent from the RAF and the only surviving crew member , bomber navigator Jeff Harrington . |
| 23 | Fifty years to the day that the tragedy happened , outside St Laurence church in Winslow , survivors and victims relatives wait for the ceremony to begin Among them , a contingent from the RAF and the only surviving crew member , bomber navigator Jeff Harrington . |
| 24 | Their call came fifty years to the day after an Oxford academic produced a report that became the corner-stone of the welfare state . |
| 25 | ON THURSDAY — exactly 20 years to the day since their son went missing — Joan and Ted McDermott made the emotional journey back to Belfast . |
| 26 | Two years to the day after the killing , three women were working in the former Pinky 's massage parlour . |
| 27 | Two years to the day after the brutal killing , three women were working in the former Pinky 's Massage parlour . |
| 28 | TWO YEARS to the day since Howard Kendall tied the knot with Everton for a second time , a forgotten child of his first managerial union with the Goodison club shone when he needed him most . |
| 29 | His expertise as a children 's bookseller was highly valued by his colleagues , and he made a great contribution over a number of years to the work of the BA 's Children 's Executive , as a member and , more recently , as a vice-chairman . |
| 30 | It guarantees sales of 160 million tonnes of coal over five years to the electricity generators , but will phase out subsidies prior to privatization , which is to be speeded up . |