Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [num] years [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A former history professor at the University of Michigan and at Columbia University in New York City , Waggoner traded blackboard for typewriter five years ago and since then his main journalistic beats have been baseball , travel , food and fashion . |
| 2 | I 'm glad I 'm grown-up now actually because er y'know it 's one of my great pleasures in life to wake up in the mornings and think great I 'm grown-up , I do n't have to go to school and er and I do n't have to live with my parents and er things are much better now than they were say sort of y'know twenty years ago or so , er giving away my age there . |
| 3 | It was as difficult for them to develop a public analysis of rape eight years ago as it is for them today publicly to acknowledge the extent of sexual abuse of girls and young women inside and outside the home . |
| 4 | Maris Otter was first listed as an approved variety by the Barley Committee of the Institute of Brewing 26 years ago and is still used by brewers such as Youngs , Brakspear and Eldridge Pope . |
| 5 | Bronson immersed himself in work on television movies after his actress wife Jill Ireland died of cancer two years ago but he is now set to marry girlfriend Kim Weeks , 31 . |
| 6 | Bridgit Walker 's son Benjamin was vaccinated against polio ten years ago when he was a few months old . |
| 7 | The school , at one time down to 9 pupils , was threatened with closure two years ago but reprieved when parents vowed to increase numbers to 19 . |
| 8 | Castlebrae was threatened with closure two years ago because of falling school rolls but the local community fought to achieve a stay of execution . |
| 9 | Mark went into rehab 11 years ago when he was 14 , then spent every night for three years at Narcotics and Alcoholics Anonymous meetings . |
| 10 | Stuart ran for Britain in the 1988 Olympic Games and in the European Championships in Split two years ago but has since had ankle and Achilles problems , as well as her degree course , hampering her progress . |
| 11 | Now she 's one of the country 's top experts on Aerodynamics , Fluid Mechanics and Aircraft Propulsion , won the Plessey prize for Women in Engineering two years ago and is determined to get more women in engineering . |
| 12 | It was back in january two years ago when he and a colleague were delivering money to a branch of LLoyds bank in Cheltenham . |
| 13 | We met , fell head over heels in love in a shockingly short time , and were still in love thirty years later when he died . ’ |
| 14 | In one scene of this comedy about university revue artists meeting in acrimony ten years later and which also features comedienne Rita Rudner , Branagh as a once-promising writer reduced to penning an American TV sitcom for his wife had to become drunk at a New Year 's Party . |
| 15 | Erm very attractive building , and I think in fact ten years ago when I took that photograph . |
| 16 | This was to come to light two years later when the Football Association appointed a commission to inquire into allegations that Sir Henry had offered financial inducements above the legal fees to attract players to Highbury and that he had diverted club funds to his private account . |
| 17 | The Llanelli right wing returned to Aussie two years later but staggered away from Brisbane 's Ballymore Stadium close to tears after being part of the most humiliating defeat in his nation 's history . |
| 18 | It was in a desperate attempt to woo them back to work two years ago that Spencer 's established its nursery . |
| 19 | Likewise , said Dr Forwell , a study of life expectancy tables showed that men in Edinburgh after retirement could expect to live on average four years longer than their counterparts in the city of Glasgow . |
| 20 | The drawing was sold by Lord 's at auction five years ago and now resides , fittingly , in Darlington . |
| 21 | Penny was bought as a puppy for Vicky at Christmas four years ago and cost the family £250 . |
| 22 | Damaged by fire ten years ago and closed ever since they have been restored especially for the exhibition the Neo-classical architecture and decorative elements making an ideal setting for Canova 's works . |