Example sentences of "[pers pn] [num] years " 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 | Took them 26 years to win the title . |
| 10 | You owe me , Mr Scott , except that nothing can ever compensate for what you stole from me six years ago . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You do n't even know the full extent of what you did to me six years ago . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's taken me 10 years to grow them this long so I do n't like hiding them completely under a hat . ’ |
| 15 | Can I risk having her curse me 10 years hence because my ideology ruined her education ? |
| 16 | The south-western desert states ( Arizona , New Mexico , Nevada and Utah ) have largely escaped the current recession , having suffered theirs five years ago . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | We were late in introducing this concept : it took me three years of persuasion for politicians to accept the idea . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ He beat me three years ago , but it will be different this time , ’ said Porter at a press conference yesterday . |
| 22 | They bought me three years ago when I got dropped out of Mars-U before my geology finals . |
| 23 | It finished for me three years ago . |
| 24 | I got a bottle of gin a bloke bought me three years ago . |
| 25 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ It did n't bother you six years ago , so why should it now ? |
| 27 | ‘ I could have destroyed you six years ago , ’ he continued . |
| 28 | When Matthew and I adopted you three years ago , we decided to look after you as well as we could . |
| 29 | And we take you three years along the line , so your husband dies , and you 've now got a young child . |
| 30 | ‘ If I 'd met you three years ago , ’ he told her harshly , ‘ maybe things would have been different . |