Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] several year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sandra began collecting several years ago after a large repair bill for a timepiece prompted her to learn the intricate ins and outs of their workings . |
| 2 | Moderator it ca n't be very often that a young minister contradicts a giant of the church in open assembly but it did happen several years ago . |
| 3 | Having doubts about this picture 's authenticity and surmising that it might be the same picture he had seen several years before , he again sought my opinion on the basis of a good photograph . |
| 4 | ‘ Athens , my chiefest joy , ’ he had written several years before he got there in vivid anticipation ; now he experienced its individual dynamic . |
| 5 | Here they discovered that their last great king had died several years previously , and still lay rotting in his widowed queen 's home . |
| 6 | Then she put into words what her brother George had thought several years before . |
| 7 | He had spent several years in the Sudan and he gave us a tip : ‘ Never take a taxi there , ’ he said , ‘ without fixing the price for the journey before you get in . ’ |
| 8 | When an apprentice , after leaving school at thirteen , my father had spent several years as a striker — using a sledgehammer . |
| 9 | AI Japan had spent several years planning the ICM , and Asia , s hosting of the event was appropriate in view of the organisation 's commitment to developing AI in that region . |
| 10 | He had spent several years amongst the small Indonesian islands off Singapore . |
| 11 | But they were all quite delightful fellows about the same age as most of the airmen pupils , and we seemed to fit in very well with each other ; although most of us had spent several years in the RAF the acting pilot officers had only spent , say , a couple of months . |
| 12 | Membership had brought several years of sustained economic growth , with a high level of foreign investment . |
| 13 | When I went overseas I had graduated from the " Pat and Giggle " stage and could join those who had served several years in Mespot . |
| 14 | Suddenly , at work one day , I thought of Cathy Comerford , an ex-WTN colleague who had left several years ago . |
| 15 | Mandy had shaved several years from her life , and put that she 'd spent her last few summers working as a waitress at the Banff Springs Hotel . |
| 16 | The waning of enthusiasm for higher education had begun several years before , but this was the first time there had been fewer applicants than places offered . |
| 17 | Although work on the NEW DEVELOPMENT had begun several years before , with much champagne bottle breaking and blue ribbon cutting , nothing very much had happened since . |
| 18 | There 's little chance of the IFA blanking the game out , as they attempted to do several years ago when a United match interfered with the Glentoran v Steaua Bucharest tie . |