Example sentences of "[pers pn] [num] year " in BNC.
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1 | The hospital 's fifteenth-century chapel houses a small collection of works by Hans Memling : exquisite , jewel-like portraits and interpretations of biblical scenes and Christian legends , as vivid as when he painted them 500 years ago . |
2 | One of my slimmers wrote : ‘ My husband says I now have the figure I had when he married me 30 years ago ’ . |
3 | It has taken me 30 years to come to terms with my own guilt , which I now know to be unjustified , and with my anger . |
4 | Having three daughters and an ‘ extended ’ family , I started knitting for them 30 years ago , but not spending a lot of money . |
5 | Their secrets return to haunt them 12 years later when bodies are discovered buried in the grounds . |
6 | He led the People of Israel out of slavery in Egypt , led them through the Red Sea , led them forty years in the wilderness and brought them safely to Palestine , Eretz Yisroel . ’ |
7 | Yes , but we have n't had them forty years . |
8 | So I 'm just wondering whether this is a different variety and because it was two years ago , I three years ago now I think . |
9 | I had a go at that did n't I one year ? |
10 | Took them 26 years to win the title . |
11 | You owe me , Mr Scott , except that nothing can ever compensate for what you stole from me six years ago . ’ |
12 | ‘ You do n't even know the full extent of what you did to me six years ago . |
13 | If Christians can agree 25 December as the supposed date for an alleged birth it should not take them 2,000 years to agree a date for an alleged death . |
14 | The opportunity to do so did not arise until Racedown was offered to them six years later , by which time Wordsworth could contemplate a life whose course , since his Norfolk visit , had done much to shape his political and poetic character , and had left him with more than a little to repent . |
15 | ‘ It 's taken me 10 years to grow them this long so I do n't like hiding them completely under a hat . ’ |
16 | Can I risk having her curse me 10 years hence because my ideology ruined her education ? |
17 | The south-western desert states ( Arizona , New Mexico , Nevada and Utah ) have largely escaped the current recession , having suffered theirs five years ago . |
18 | Perhaps President we could solve the problem by the T & G having theirs one year and us the next . |
19 | Once they 'd moved in , it took them three years just to make the necessary structural changes , but with a neglected 350-year-old house that was to be expected . |
20 | Glenn Hoddle says they they do n't do things easily … they were the best footballing side on the day and its justice for what happened to them three years ago |
21 | We were late in introducing this concept : it took me three years of persuasion for politicians to accept the idea . |
22 | ‘ I first met Julie when I walked into her gallery but it took me three years to walk out with her as my wife , ’ he says . |
23 | ‘ He beat me three years ago , but it will be different this time , ’ said Porter at a press conference yesterday . |
24 | They bought me three years ago when I got dropped out of Mars-U before my geology finals . |
25 | It finished for me three years ago . |
26 | I got a bottle of gin a bloke bought me three years ago . |
27 | ‘ Very well , ’ she said after a pause , ‘ I 'll marry you six years from now if we 're both alive and if my husband does n't return . ’ |
28 | ‘ It did n't bother you six years ago , so why should it now ? |
29 | ‘ I could have destroyed you six years ago , ’ he continued . |
30 | When Matthew and I adopted you three years ago , we decided to look after you as well as we could . |