Example sentences of "[adj] years ago [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over 30 years ago J H Sheldon , whose 'Social Medicine of Old Age' is still one of the most farsighted and compassionate reviews of the circumstances of older people , described old age as ‘ a quality of mind and body whose time or onset varies from individual to individual , rather than a mere quantity expressed by the term of duration applicable to all . ’ |
| 2 | More than 30 years ago BBC Radio carried out a ‘ Which ? ’ -type survey of football ground toilets . |
| 3 | What was written almost 30 years ago remains substantially true : ‘ Countries including many language and culture groups , like most African and Asian ones , have not split up , and those taking in only part of a single language group , like the Arab ones and North Africa , have … not united . ’ |
| 4 | Some years ago Bishop Joe Fison expressed it well in his book about the Spirit , Fire upon the Earth ( p. 9 ) : |
| 5 | Some years ago Granada organised an enterprising backstage tour and theme park area within their grounds . |
| 6 | The successful work that was done to eradicate smallpox some years ago shows what can be achieved . |
| 7 | Some years ago Causton found that biological polymers called mucopolysaccharides could exclude protein from some surfaces . |
| 8 | Some years ago Western Samoans were found never to develop type I diabetes in their own environment but to do so when brought up in New Zealand . |
| 9 | Some years ago Ronald Woodley remarked on BBC Radio 3 that the sound of some consort singing in Britain is ‘ the musical equivalent of Oxford English ’ ( the required dialect for all Whitehall bureaucrats ) . |
| 10 | Some years ago NTS members who suggested such a tack were ridiculed for their pains . |
| 11 | Some years ago Lezak and I wrote an article on brain dysfunction in patients with Munchausen 's syndrome . |
| 12 | Some years ago Edmund Wilson complained of writers of Gothic who could fail to lay hold on the terrors that lie deep in the human soul and have caused man to fear himself . |
| 13 | Some years ago Radio Luxembourg carried out a series of presentations to agencies on the subject of ‘ visual transfer ’ — a term used in the USA for the more or less observable fact that most of the TV audience recognize TV commercials from their soundtracks , and that , therefore , using the TV soundtrack , or something close to it , on radio can greatly enhance the coverage and frequency of a TV campaign . |
| 14 | Some years ago professor Geach made an arrangement of this material , which the editors , professor G. H. von Wright and Miss G. E. M. Anscombe have retained with a very few alterations . |
| 15 | In a similar situation some years ago Rwanda had to abandon a plan to move the last 146 elephants in the country 40 km through a densely populated area because they could not find anyone in Africa who could run the drive . |
| 16 | Some years ago Collectair featured another commemorative luftwaffe Christmas plate , that time for a celebratory landing at Moscow , something that never happened . |
| 17 | Some years ago Lucy Sells ( 1978 ) talked about mathematics as ‘ the critical filter ’ that determined which careers people might enter . |
| 18 | Some years ago Maisie had swallowed a whole bottle of vitamin pills and , although Henry had suggested that in his view Maisie 's stomach could probably have stood a diet of broken glass , aspirin and raw steak , Elinor had insisted on ringing Charing Cross Hospital . |
| 19 | 2 years ago Teddy Sutton did n't know he could carve ; now his work is on display at up to £300 a time . |
| 20 | 2 years ago Mona was dying of leukaemia . |
| 21 | Two and a half years ago Christopher , of College Road North , Blundellsands , was a prize pupil at St Mary 's College in Crosby . |
| 22 | Two and a half years ago Camel Laird started a campaign to gain access to the intervention funding and because of the total lack of any sort of industrial policy by this government , and their refusal to support the Camel Laird application to the E E C , next month will see the closure of Camel Lairds which will lead to a loss of skills that amounts almost to a criminal act on the part of this government , who seem prepared to allow this country to become a skill-free zone in order to drive down wages and conditions to a rate comparable with some Third World countries . |
| 23 | It seems that a few years ago Mrs Brissett 's daughter 's husband left her and she had trouble finding a job and had no money … and Harriet helped her find a job somewhere . |
| 24 | ‘ I was amazed , I could get to places with cameras which just a few years ago Russians would n't have been allowed to visit , ’ he said . |
| 25 | Vincent said that a few years ago watch batteries had to be renewed every year . |
| 26 | A few years ago Claythorpe mill was in a state of dilapidation ; a sad , neglected relic of a past long forgotten . |
| 27 | A few years ago Dr Palcic , Dr Lam and their colleagues started a company called Xillix to build machines to do just that . |
| 28 | 7 & 8 A few years ago Sally Baring of Borderline went into an antique shop and left with an 1895 fabric block . |
| 29 | A few years ago Jo would have been unable to resist a put-down , but the Hollywood brat had grown up and knew how and when to be gracious . |
| 30 | A few years ago manuscript evidence was discovered that Torriano 's copy of de' Dondi 's clock was still at his house in Toledo in the seventeenth century , and it is therefore unlikely that , as formerly thought , it perished when the convent of San Yuste with its art treasures was set on fire by the French in 1809 . |