Example sentences of "in [noun prp] [adv] [adj] years ago " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frances Millary was introduced to Medau by Marjorie Worgan in Sussex about 20 years ago . |
| 2 | There , there was a wonderful display in Chester about five years ago |
| 3 | You do not need to be a Christian , or any sort of a believer in established religion , to want to live your life by the simple principles of goodness that are symbolised by the baby born in Bethlehem almost 2,000 years ago . |
| 4 | Kingdon accepts , probably too uncritically , that modern humans originated in Africa about 200,000 years ago and then dispersed across the globe . |
| 5 | They were not too concerned with what had happened to a couple of whores in Paris over ten years ago , or even the other matter . |
| 6 | Thirdly , both murders are certainly linked with Sir Ralph 's dreadful betrayal of Bartholomew Burghgesh in Cyprus so many years ago . ’ |
| 7 | What had been done in Outremer so many years ago had been evil ! |
| 8 | ‘ I was offered a restaurant in Cheltenham about five years ago , but I did n't even consider it . |
| 9 | Now I 'd just like to sort of This is a This is not very clear on here but I would just like to bring out This is an accident which happened down in Kent about two years ago now . |
| 10 | The last time in Norwich about six years ago , and then there were five Magistrates out , and the sittings went on , for between two and three days . |
| 11 | Yet if Miss Hill was unlucky not to get a medal , her disappointment was nothing compared to that felt by the American Lance Larson on a steaming hot night in Rome over 30 years ago . |
| 12 | This fine old variety , raised in Suffolk about 150 years ago , owes its aromatic flavour to another good old apple , Ribston Pippin , which was one of its parents . |
| 13 | He is being held in solitary confinement in Gibraltar , charged with murdering his parents in Jersey nearly five years ago . |