Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] years [adv] [pers pn] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tom West , head of Data General 's Advanced Systems Development Group claims that DG 's lonely advocacy of the 88000 RISC ‘ is not a problem — two or three years ago I was more worried about the decision than I am now ’ . |
| 2 | Three or four years ago we were involved in this only in a very minor way . |
| 3 | Although some years later he was to describe the kind of people with whom he now associated in a less than enthusiastic manner , it was really only in such company that he could feel any sense of purposefulness . |
| 4 | The column makes no secret of the fact that ten years ago we were his best man . |
| 5 | However , there is no escaping the fact that fifteen years ago it was rare to see wildly deranged people on the streets of London and other major cities . |
| 6 | Okay , yeah better transport technology a hundred and fifty years ago it was impossible t erm , to transport meat across the Atlantic it 's er , very straightforward now so the advent of different types of , er , transport technology and improved transport technology erm , has made tr , facilitated trade okay . |
| 7 | In 1949 , on the strength of his military experience , he was appointed to the Ministry of Defence ; and three years later he was seconded to the UK Delegation to Nato . |
| 8 | The father-of-three became chairman of the Bar Council in 1972 and three years later he was made a High Court Judge and was immediately appointed to the Chancery Division . |
| 9 | As a student at Cambridge he played squash for the University and three years ago he was set to take up stock car racing . |
| 10 | And 18 years later he was still there , serving as equerry to the Maharajah of Rewa . |
| 11 | Moreover , it broadcast only for about four hours each evening ; and ten years later it was still on air only 60 per cent as much as BBC1 . |
| 12 | Excavations have uncovered positive proof that between 10,000 and 25,000 years ago it was a wild beast 's den with bones of extinct animals having been found in the stalagmites on the cave floor . |
| 13 | It 's Lord Blandford 's second trip to Pentonville … there was a drugs sentence in 1986 … and two years ago he was sent to Oxford prison for driving offences . |
| 14 | Then in 534 they overthrew the kingdom of the Burgundians , and two years later they were ceded the majority of the territory held by the Goths in Provence . |
| 15 | On promotion to Chief Inspector in 1988 , he moved to Fratton and two years later he was appointed second-in-command of the community relations department at police headquarters in Winchester . |
| 16 | In 1962 he was invited to join the Ferrari team and two years later he was world champion when he pipped Graham Hill by one point . |
| 17 | In 1958 he was chief coach to the British team which produced our best post-war results in the European championships , with gold medals from the likes of Ian Black and Judy Grinham , and two years later he was appointed manager of the British Swimming team for the Olympics in Rome . |
| 18 | In 1967 an international piano competition bearing his name was established and four years later he was awarded the Erasmus Prize . |
| 19 | I do n't know whether I told you … but some years ago she was diagnosed as having … polyneuritis … ’ |
| 20 | Novae are now believed to be caused by gas spilling from one star to another in a close double-star system , but 30 years ago they were a complete mystery ; only two dozen had been spotted in time for astronomers to study them while they were still erupting . |
| 21 | At the beginning of the sixteenth century the fens were less thickly settled than the clay plateau , but 200 years later they were amongst the most populous districts in the county . |
| 22 | The boat which regularly patrols the waterway was once crewed by police officers , but two years ago they were withdrawn . |
| 23 | But two years ago he was finally discharged , to be treated as an out patient . |
| 24 | The General 's father was the Rev. Henry Montgomery , the vicar of St. Mark 's Church , Kennington , when Bernard was born , but two years later he was appointed Bishop of Tasmania , to whence the family moved returning to England some twelve years later , when Bernard was fourteen years of age , and in January 1902 , the family moved into a Victorian house , 19 , Bolton Road , Chiswick , quite close to the River Thames and open sports grounds . |
| 25 | At 59 I 'm the novelty man of big time races , but seven years ago it was a different matter . |
| 26 | Why I er , said that was because twenty years ago we were n't a second-rate football team . |
| 27 | Erm now Alton for example started off at the beginning of the year with four and they 're now at thirty three very s very impressive how much they , them will succeed I do n't know but some other good news on that front is that erm the average age of our consultants overall is now thirty one , whereas three years ago it was twe below twenty one . |
| 28 | In 1592 Sir Thomas Sherley offered £200 for an office , while two years later he was expressing shocked — but rather unconvincing — indignation at the rumour that he was being paid £4,600 for his own position as Treasurer of the Wars . |
| 29 | I think that that is , is something that you know we looked at the you know the Mirror that you know while thirty years ago they were doing short punchy stories and they maintained that , that there was actually |
| 30 | On many a winter morning I jumped out of bed and put a letter of his in the fire , feeling it would be wrong to allow it to survive ; and when some years ago I was asked by a distinguished man of letters if I could help him to write an account of Maurice |