Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adj] years [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | McGrath was fined £8,500 by the Football Association three years ago for a newspaper article attack on Ferguson , who responded with his own condemnation of the defender in his autobiography earlier this year . |
| 2 | READERS of New Scientist will be familiar with the sensational discovery two years ago of a young Australopithecus female frozen in a glacier atop Mt . |
| 3 | The authority 's predecessor river board granted a consent some years ago with a number of parameters : 20 BOD , 100 p.p.m. suspended solids ( relaxed from the usual 30 ) , and various metals , including zinc , consented to the standard 0.5 p.p.m . |
| 4 | He left Forest three years ago in a £1.5m deal and although he was an immediate success in United 's midfield , the last 12 months have turned sour . |
| 5 | The Minister 's wife related to my grandfather , in the presence of her mother-in-law , how the latter had accompanied her husband many years before on a mission to the Barbary Coast , where plague was raging . |
| 6 | Couvelaire started his business 25 years ago with a Cessna 182 and a Comanche after serving as a pilot in the French Air Force during the Algerian war . |
| 7 | Little lead Darlington to promotion from the GM Vauxhall Conference two years ago with a win on the last day of the season thanks to an 87th minute winner in their final game . |
| 8 | Robert Harris established his name many years ago as a designer of sound blue water cruising yachts , so it was no surprise when a couple tackled him in the late 1960s to design for them a small yacht that would take them from Canada to New Zealand in both comfort and safety . |
| 9 | I was optimistic , because I 'd had a good turnout two years earlier for a smaller project , the clean-up of an old railway path . |
| 10 | I FIRST came across Theatre de Complicite seven years ago in a show called More Bigger Snacks Now , which featured a definitive demonstration of just how much mess it is possible to make with a few packets of crisps and a couple of cans of Coke . |
| 11 | CD had already satirized the Movement some years earlier in a piece for The Examiner ( 3 June 1843 ) , ‘ Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the Condition of the Persons variously engaged in the University of Oxford ’ ( collected in MP ) . |
| 12 | An electronics specialist called Colin Crook set up Zynar three years ago as a subsidiary of the Rank leisure group . |
| 13 | She had been swopped with another baby 13 years before in a tragic hospital blunder . |
| 14 | MOTHERWELL climbed to the top of the Scottish Premier Division for the first time since League reconstruction 14 years ago with a 1-0 win over Rangers at Fir Park last night . |
| 15 | Anthony John Allen , aged 23 , of Huyton , Liverpool , was cleared by the appeal judges , along with William Willis , aged 23 , who had been given an 11-year sentence for his alleged part in the attack three years ago on a Southampton publican , his wife , and a barmaid . |
| 16 | Best known as the judge who ( unsuccessfully ) defied Mr Gonzalez 's government five years ago in a case involving the recruitment of mercenaries to assassinate terrorist suspects , his decision to join the politicians he was unable to beat has caused some disillusion but much excitement . |
| 17 | Mr Baig , a Lahore business man , was the subject of a BBC documentary four years ago about a Japanese heroin smuggler who was caught in Amsterdam and sentenced to 10 years ' jail . |
| 18 | The woman in his life weighs 225 tons , has a 420in waist , a 4½-foot long nose , and celebrated her 100th birthday six years ago with a $66 million facelift . |
| 19 | The runner-up was former contract herdsman Rex Goodfellow , who started farming on his own account three years ago on a 34 acres Cheshire County Council smallholding Westview Farm , Shotwick Park , Saughall , near Chester . |
| 20 | So Portadown , last season 's runners-up , return to Dublin where they last won the cup two years ago with a classic 4–2 triumph over Muckross . |
| 21 | The royals won a bumper rise two years ago in a deal due to last until the end of the decade . |
| 22 | I bought the green sofa-bed three years ago from a shop whose proprietor assured me it was the product of a reputable English firm ; after its delivery I found a large label underneath which said ‘ Made in Belgium ’ . |
| 23 | Sut Jhally , who created a stir two years ago with a critical video he produced for his students about the sexist images on MTV , explains : ‘ Most pornography reflects male fantasies . |
| 24 | I first met the Southport wizard 20 years ago in a remote Welsh outpost ; and within minutes we were immersed in a fascinating discussion about rises in sea level and the expanding Earth . |
| 25 | He was speared to death six years later by a Masai whose favourite bullock he insisted on requisitioning for a government destocking programme . |
| 26 | Alan Winmill first had doubts about socialism 5 years ago on a visit to the former Soviet Union . |
| 27 | But I 've put him in touch with engineer Eric Pendry who came into my office nine years ago with a story about his son , Paul , who was also shot dead on an SAS live-fire training exercise . |
| 28 | Shah Jehan had himself come to power twelve years earlier after a bloody civil war . |
| 29 | Bought in an English street market thirty years ago for a few shillings , a hitherto unidentified still-life by Luis Melendez ( 1716–1780 ) was sold at Bonhams on 10 December for £850,000 ( $1.36 million ) . |
| 30 | Chadwick himself had been forced out of office four years earlier by a powerful lobby of anti-centralizers , private drainage and water authorities and those with a personal antipathy to the ‘ wizard of Whitehall ’ . |