Example sentences of "[adj] four years " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was widowed four years ago and I know only too well what a terrible thing it is to suddenly find yourself alone . |
| 2 | Widowed four years ago , she lives off two pensions left by her late husband . |
| 3 | In the meantime the women 's liberation movement was changing rapidly ; expanding , feminists were becoming active in a whole range of trade union activities , setting up women 's centres , refuges for battered wives , all kinds of research , discussion … the group , although it continued to meet , give or take a member or two , for a further four years , was a friendship , a support group of women who had struggled through to political consciousness together , and whose own political allegiances sparked off in many directions : a gay commune , further teaching , trade union organising , membership of one of the numerous revolutionary left-wing groupings which flourished in the seventies , involved in producing feminist journals . |
| 4 | The court ruled that Jampa Ngodrup be deprived of his political rights for a further four years after he has served his 13-year sentence . |
| 5 | Telecommunications company Cable & Wireless have extended their sponsorship of West Indies Test cricket for a further four years in a deal worth $2 million . |
| 6 | For a further four years , Sukarno found himself at the centre of a political maelstrom of which the outcome seemed obscure . |
| 7 | He stayed with Arrol for a further four years as director and chief engineer before joining in 1949 Freeman , Fox & Partners , with whom he remained until his retirement in 1969 . |
| 8 | ‘ Although tennis was formally reinstated as an Olympic sport in 1981 , it was n't until 1987 , some four years after David had died , that we finally persuaded the IOC to allow all tennis players , including the professionals , to be eligible to compete , ’ he recalls . |
| 9 | ‘ We must build the finest sporting coupe in the world , ’ exhorted Rolls-Royce chief executive Peter Ward some four years ago . |
| 10 | The lady , according to Carter , had walked out on him some four years previously . |
| 11 | It would be some four years before Richard saw England again . |
| 12 | For some four years between 1922 and 1926 , I was a member of the choir at The Trinity Hospital Chapel opposite Robbins ' . |
| 13 | The EEC this month revealed that Europe 's nuclear industry holds a stockpile of some four years ' supply of enriched uranium . |
| 14 | These included the authors of the ‘ Li Yi Zhe ’ document , a 20,000 character dazibao which had been posted in Guangzhou on 10 November 1984 , some four years before ‘ Democracy Wall ’ . |
| 15 | Also Associated Tunnelling had issued Mr Jones with the statement : ‘ You may be required to transfer from one site to another on the instruction of the employer ’ some four years before the end of the employer 's contract with the National Coal Board at Hem Heath . |
| 16 | Apart from the fact that it divested its foundry business some four years ago — and has no intention of getting back into that game — Motorola can supply 88000 parts at a $850 apiece . |
| 17 | Some four years after a belated introduction to the first-class fold at the ripe old age of 27 , the quick from St Kitts did precisely that against Kent in a remarkable match at Guildford , then improved the bowling mark with 6 for 30 against Durham a fortnight later . |
| 18 | Example A. Mr Pasta , the proprietor of ‘ Mamma 's Pizza Restaurant ’ , has employed Manuel as a waiter for some four years . |
| 19 | Our electronic publishing operation began when we looked at buying Computing Today , a magazine I spent some four years editing , which Argus were closing down . |
| 20 | That was the brief for a one-person project I took on with the late schools council some four years ago . |
| 21 | " I next had personal dealings with him some four years ago , in very different circumstances . |
| 22 | The dismissal of the Taskopruzade version of events by Husameddin and Uzuncarsili is perhaps too abrupt , since Karaman seems to have been incorporated into the empire only after the battle of Akcay in 800/1397 , some eight years into Bayezid I 's reign and some four years after Molla Fenari appears to have become kadi . |
| 23 | Javier , from the Systems department , took his picture , titled ‘ Our Shadow ’ , some four years ago on a field trip to Sochagota lake in the province of Boyac . |
| 24 | It is an Alto Duo , a kit car which Joy 's dad made for her some four years ago . |
| 25 | The 210-ft telescope at Parkes was completed in 1961 , some four years after the 250-ft Lovell telescope at Jodrell Bank , and in the second part of the book we are told how it was funded and built . |
| 26 | School meals were only to begin some four years later . |
| 27 | The children were followed up some four years later at secondary schools so that the possibility could be considered that such differences were attributable to initial differences in their ability and adjustment rather than being caused by the schools ( Rutter et al. , 1979 ) . |
| 28 | The network of Young Engineers Clubs started some four years ago now includes 30 clubs and involves around 900 boys and girls . |
| 29 | The tall , blond player who had joined West Ham at the tender of age of 17 some four years earlier , had done more than choose the right moment to emerge , he 'd nicely anticipated the coming of the right man , Alf Ramsey , who took over the England management shortly afterwards and began to forge the national side which would win the World Cup in 1966 and in which Moore would play an anchor role . |
| 30 | The County Council I full well remember some four years ago made a decision that once a site had been in peril , once a decision was made it should n't be brought back into the arena again . |