Example sentences of "when [pron] [verb] [adj] year ago " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm when i started fifteen years ago , it was an intake of about twenty five er lads at a time , we 're now down to about unfortunately eight or nine craft apprentices . |
| 2 | When I started six years ago I did n't know , shall I still be living when this project is completed ? |
| 3 | When I retired four years ago , I decided I would like to help and encourage other people to paint , and hopefully get as much pleasure form the hobby as I do , and since that time I have been able to meet up with groups of friends and pass on to them the knowledge I have gained through the pages of your magazine . |
| 4 | ‘ When we married 26 years ago I never realised it would be to a millionaire , but he has always been lucky . |
| 5 | ‘ When we married 26 years ago I never realised it would be to a millionaire but he has always been lucky . ’ |
| 6 | Certainly as far as we 're concerned at Traidcraft , when we started eight years ago a packet of coffee was two pound twenty five . |
| 7 | She had worked ten years in the West End and had no friends in the suburb where she and Ron had been lucky to get the second floor of a house when they married two years ago . |
| 8 | When it began three years ago , Anis used its own brand name . |
| 9 | Books , as ever in Paris , fared well : Eric Buffetaud auctioned off the eleventh part of the library of Colonel Daniel Sickles , an American who lived in France , collected nineteenth- and twentieth-century books and left 8,000 works valued at FFr200 million when he died four years ago . |
| 10 | With no reserve football in Italy it 's hard for Milan to keep all their stars happy but , with Burlusconi having pumped £50m into a club which as £15m in debt when he arrived seven years ago , there are few grumbles on the terraces . |
| 11 | Ronnie Barker was hoping for a peaceful life when he retired six years ago . |