Example sentences of "[adj] years [adv] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was light years away at the time these alleged crimes took place . |
| 2 | When she went to Bolsover a few years ago at the time of the salmonella in eggs crisis , she went into South Normanton marketplace and met a woman there who said , ’ Hey you , are you Currie , the one about the salmonella ? ’ |
| 3 | This rude awakening was , however , still a few years away at the time when Dustin joined . |
| 4 | They may have had some basis in reality because bones of a large primate 3.5 metres tall and weighing 800 pounds , found in caves in southern China , date back to over 300,000 years ago at the time Homo Erectus was still alive . |
| 5 | HCI offers discounts for all children aged 2–11 years inclusive at the time of travel . |
| 6 | Figure 4.1 shows the employment status of two age-groups of older workers immediately after redundancy and three years later at the time of interview . |
| 7 | Ten years earlier at the time of the Younger Report , it had been possible to compile a rough estimate of the number of computer installations ; all thoughts were then on the powerful centralised main-frame equipment which had dominated the technology till then . |