Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The choice of the right level at which to study a phenomenon is as important a strategic decision in biology as is the choice of the right organism or the appropriate control experiment , and it affects present-day research just as much as it did twenty years ago . |
| 2 | Figure 6.5 shows movements in the average age at first marriage ; women are marrying , on average , some three years younger than they did forty years ago . |
| 3 | No I 've nothing , any palpitations , nothing , I feel as fit as I did twenty years ago . |
| 4 | Because that glitzy little bit of apparent nonsense is not a novel at all ; but a condensed version of the Real Life Story of Miss Pat Booth , who at 45 still looks as good as she did 20 years ago , and has found fame , fortune and happiness , all wrapped up in a very glossy package indeed . |
| 5 | Mrs Merlin and her husband Christopher say radioactive contamination was behind their decision to sell the house , Mountain Ash , Ravenglass , six miles from Sellafield , which fetched only £35,000 — little more than it cost 11 years earlier . |
| 6 | The national gallery gets £2.75 million , the same as it received seven years ago and rather less than it received 10 years ago . |
| 7 | The Met receives about $13 million a year for operations from New York City , $3 million less than it got two years ago . |
| 8 | Donna 's leader on the DTS is the same as I had 5 years ago ! |
| 9 | The national gallery gets £2.75 million , the same as it received seven years ago and rather less than it received 10 years ago . |
| 10 | Books , as ever in Paris , fared well : Eric Buffetaud auctioned off the eleventh part of the library of Colonel Daniel Sickles , an American who lived in France , collected nineteenth- and twentieth-century books and left 8,000 works valued at FFr200 million when he died four years ago . |