Example sentences of "[verb] some year " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of the old historians of this County take notice of this Chantry , not even Mr Lambarde , who lived some years in the Bishops ' Palace here . |
| 2 | John Wilson , whom I last met some years ago with his wife on a trip to the Seychelles , thanked His Grace , and paid tribute to the support and enthusiasm of his wife , Alan Smith his hardworking keeper , Peter Pask the farm manager , and his farm staff . |
| 3 | But many organists have undertaken some years of an expensive musical training and still give many hours a week to practising . |
| 4 | Major restoration projects include the Cathedral of Our Lady whose exterior is now almost complete ; inside , the first phase of work on the nave and roof was completed some years ago . |
| 5 | Presteigne ( the modern spelling ) had a railway connection , completed in 1875 but planned some years earlier ( see below ) , which lasted right up till Dr Beeching 's Axe . |
| 6 | Hound Tor is a deserted settlement in Manaton parish , high on the east side of Dartmoor , which was excavated some years ago and has been left open so that visitors can see it . |
| 7 | So to my mind , er the , the people dare dance should have been yourselves er I mean some years ago where your jobs are very secure , you knew that you were likely to see the end of the term in e e employed . |
| 8 | Hall seems to endorse a proposal made some years ago by that , on the basis of this simple genetic control , ‘ Torsion , and with it the class Gastropoda , arose through a single gene mutation . ’ |
| 9 | The position would have been very different in the case of a payment made some years before which was sought to be recovered because a court in another case had ruled that the regulation under which the demand had been made had all along been ultra vires . |
| 10 | Unfortunately the statement of Balassa made some years ago still remains true , " there exists no wholly satisfactory way of measuring the effect of a customs union or free trade area on trade flows . |
| 11 | She must have realised some years before that I was n't headed in the direction of St Margaret 's , Westminster , but she had still intended the occasion to glitter , a bright milestone in our uneventful lives . |
| 12 | For example , support given some years ago to a postgraduate in Theoretical Chemistry , Mark Bayley , led to offers of collaboration between Bristol , Yale and a German University . |
| 13 | given some years earlier , |
| 14 | I expect you know he has no love for you … your reneging on the Munich contract some years ago meant several of his singers lost work . |
| 15 | John Varnom booked the pleasure cruiser , fittingly named The Elizabethan ( and which Virgin would actually buy some years later ) , reassuring the owner that the party was for ‘ some boring German synthesiser band ’ . |
| 16 | It was decided that the British should move forward , as agreed with the French High Command some years earlier , to latch on to the extreme left wing of the French Army : at this time General Charles Lanrezac 's Fifth Army . |
| 17 | It must be admitted that Château Meloch was a great deal better some years than others , and although it was often possible to be amused by its presumption , it was equally likely to be pronounced fit only for cooking — and on one occasion its only possible use was as a substitute for vinegar . |
| 18 | An effect of this sort was reported some years ago by Grastyan ( 1961 ) , who monitored an electrophysiological correlate ( hippocampal slow waves ) of the overt OR during conditioning and found that the electrical response diminished as the CR emerged . |
| 19 | Personally , I have been using the Church shoe index that I created some years ago . |
| 20 | Perhaps the greatest change in the Tilford Bach Festival occurred some years ago when Denys Darlow realised his aim of producing the sound most familiar to Bach himself , by introducing the London Handel Orchestra which specialises in baroque music played on authentic reproductions of baroque instruments . |
| 21 | Or , if anger is still spoiling your relationship with someone , then consider expressing your feelings directly to them , even if the incident occurred some years ago . |
| 22 | A simple procedure used some years ago by Kreinin ( 1969 ) consists of normalising intra-trade statistics . |
| 23 | She was twenty-eight , I discovered ; her parents ( mother French , father English ) had separated some years previously when Pater had done a runner with a bimbo ; and she toiled as a handmaiden of the arts , rendering fresh the faded pigments of yesteryear . |
| 24 | Dr Bob Woodward and his brother John became interested in the pavement when it was uncovered some years ago . |
| 25 | This was the position argued some years ago by practitioners of la nouvelle critique , who believed that clarity in argument was a form of ideological mystification , reinforcing the status quo . |
| 26 | They all go in the bin because we have abandoned the process that we adopted some years ago of posting them back to the county officials and the councillors because that was not having any effect . |
| 27 | In fact , it was copied almost entirely from an apartment in the Dakota building , outside which John Lennon was shot some years later and where Yates himself would live . |
| 28 | The wideband cable systems which were trumpeted some years ago could well carry high quality sound as well as umpteen television channels but their development has run into serious economic problems . |
| 29 | We commission consultants who produced a report suggesting a southern route , but the northern route , the A41 route , is not ruled out , because we have n't made any proposals — so we 're looking some years down the road . |
| 30 | The point was well made some years ago by Hugh Maguire , a veteran of the English orchestral scene and an evident admirer or Karajan , when he said : ‘ He is too strong , too powerful , too rich — too much outside the general run . |