Example sentences of "[adj] year [adv] an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SOME years ago an enterprising manufacturer of home computer ‘ add-ons ’ produced a low cost robot arm that used standard model radio control servos to produce the motive power . |
| 2 | Fifty years later an administrative officer found the Masai to be perfect hosts : ‘ they do respect your privacy ; men of other tribes rather fuss round you , always sure there is something they have omitted to do as hosts , thus making a nuisance of themselves — but the Masai leave you alone ’ . |
| 3 | Fifty years ago an American airman died averting a disaster , when he crashed his stricken bomber into a field after steering it away from a busy town centre . |
| 4 | The census has been for many years now an important instrument , among a range of such instruments , in the administration of the welfare state . |
| 5 | The Ulster Unionist chairman said that just over 11 years ago an 11-year-old boy had been killed in a no-warning IRA bomb blast in the town . |
| 6 | Life table analysis ( of all 77 patients ) showed a 32% relapse in the first year then an annual relapse rate of 11% . |
| 7 | Some 30 or 40 years ago an elderly lady living near Knocknamuckley was speaking about a neighbour who had been taken into ‘ B ’ block in the Lurgan and Portadown Hospital . |
| 8 | Two hundred years ago an eight-seater box for a theatre season cost a staggering 2,000 guineas , she learned . |
| 9 | At national level HMI customarily look back two years when an overall survey of progress is made . |
| 10 | Four years ago an enterprising film producer arrived in Hollywood , having just acquired the film rights to a book on the life of Andy Warhol . |
| 11 | Seven years later an experimental train was fitted with electric light supplied by a dynamo driven by a three-cylinder Brotherhood engine . |
| 12 | He then remembered that seven years previously an instant coffee machine had been installed in the building where he worked and he had fallen into the habit of having a cup every time he passed it . |