Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [was/were] [verb] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Glenn Hoddle says he thinks his team will win because there is a determination running throughout the club and the supporters who were robbed three years ago and could have gone on for another fifty or sixty years waiting a chance like this … |
| 2 | They joined doctors and parents who were celebrating ten years of research into Rhesus disease.Nick Clark reports . |
| 3 | They were part of a prize-winning herd of more than 80 cattle which was founded 5 years ago . |
| 4 | Rumour was rife in 1588 and this was the time , armed with the deathbed testimony of Mrs Barnes , and the cutting taken from the drapes of Littlecote ( incidentally , the cutting was found to fit the curtains which were sold many years later as a memento to an American ) , that the lawyers , probably headed by Anthony Brooks , tried to charge Darrel in court . |
| 5 | Environment Minister Emil Salim said that the 500 firms , spread over 11 of the 27 provinces of Indonesia , have failed to comply with water effluent standards which were set two years ago . |
| 6 | But do you really expect me to remember babies who were born twenty years ago ? ’ |
| 7 | Family notes listing Charles Titford 's children from William Charles onwards ; the notes themselves were written many years after the events they outline — in 1860 or thereabouts . |
| 8 | The wideband cable systems which were trumpeted some years ago could well carry high quality sound as well as umpteen television channels but their development has run into serious economic problems . |
| 9 | er my Lord simply directives under one art article one , eight , nine , erm I can , very simply say in relation to the Lloyds Act and to the bye laws they were adopted ten years after the directive , there ca n't therefore be an implementation , they , they , the the implementation is fully set out in the Insurance Companies Act nineteen eighty two and it quite clear now because the Secretary of S |