Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can compare this with a similar attempt made eight years later by Stubbs ( 1983 ) , who distinguishes four main areas of language which teachers should know about if they are to be able to make informed decisions about language problems at school : |
| 2 | The true theory of the Nicol prism was not clearly understood even by its inventor , but in a neglected paper by Edward Sang the mathematical theory is given completely for the first time ; this also contains a suggestion , made forty-seven years later by M. E. Bertrand in the Comptes Rendus , that a polarizer might be constructed of two glass prisms separated by a suitably placed thin layer of Iceland spar . |
| 3 | The same might be said of Redon 's frequently alluded to fragility : according to Eisenman he was ever teetering on the brink of depression and death , though this in turn does not explain why the artist lived seventy-five years of life quite satisfactorily . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It was a simple task to find Moses Downer 's birth registered twenty-one years earlier under the registration district of Fordingbridge , not many miles away just across the Hampshire county boundary . |
| 11 | Terry Agombar , 28 , of Bexley Heath , Kent , and Mark Cummings , 29 , of east London , both got 14 years , and Gary Hutchins , 28 , of east London , got 12 years for conspiracy to rob . |
| 12 | ‘ If anything can be concluded from this book , it is that I was born , ’ writes Sisson after touching on that event , which occurred 75 years ago in a building since occupied by the Bristol Rovers Supporters Club . |
| 13 | It was made from a recipe his grandmother used 70 years ago — flower of elder , citric acid , lemon and sugar . |
| 14 | They had a son but divorced eight years later , and did not see each other for the next 45 years , until January when they met at an 80th birthday party of Dougan 's sister Gwendoline . |
| 15 | The only disturbance to the peace of this natural sanctuary occurred 120 years ago when a spectacular railway was laid at a high level across the head of the valley ; this apart , Dentdale today is very much as it was three centuries ago , happily free from modern developments and well content to remain so . |
| 16 | For Washburn 20 years of visual carnage has meant increasing mental instability and a compulsion to uncover the truth behind a murder that occurred 120 years before . |
| 17 | Augmented by their co-religionists through the centuries , often in response to waves of persecution such as the expulsion from Spain which occurred 500 years ago this month . |
| 18 | In 1847 he described two boys with what was obviously pseudo-hypertrophic muscular dystrophy , described twenty-one years later by Guillaume Duchenne . |
| 19 | Personally , I have been using the Church shoe index that I created some years ago . |
| 20 | My wife and I divorced 12 years ago — and she has since remarried . |
| 21 | It has been argued that the mechanism of synaptic reinforcement at work here follows a rule that the psychologist Donald Hebb proposed forty years ago as the neuronal basis of memory : when an input pattern is successful in making a neuron fire , then the synapses that took part in making it fire are strengthened . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | A simple procedure used some years ago by Kreinin ( 1969 ) consists of normalising intra-trade statistics . |
| 25 | AT forty-three , divorced six years ago , I frankly admit I want a man . |
| 26 | EIE has bought 446,000 square feet of offices in two blocks of 11 and 15 storeys which make up Britannic House West , built 10 years ago and close to the Bank of England . |
| 27 | He mentioned six years to me ! |
| 28 | He mentioned six years ! |
| 29 | He mentioned six years to me ! |
| 30 | Though he devoted six years of his life to the RPF , de Gaulle virtually ignored it in his memoirs . |