Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [adj] years [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has now been restored to a superb family home by the present Lord and Lady Feversham and it is hard to imagine that only a few years ago the house was little more than an empty , echoing shell . |
| 2 | Most secondary schools have now reached double figures in their stocks of micros — but only a few years ago the authors of a book ( Howe and Ross , 1981 ) could gently suggest that ‘ we can readily envisage the time when every educational institution in the country will have access to at least one microcomputer ’ . |
| 3 | Rightly , because there was no easy link to be made and only a few years previously the best criminologists were explaining the increase in crime as an inevitable consequence of prosperity . |
| 4 | Nearly a thousand years ago the first settlers made the Glemmtal valley their home , and ever since they 've made a point of extending a warm welcome to all-comers . |
| 5 | For about a hundred years following the publication of Lamarck 's book , the common dog-whelk was known as Purpura lapillus ( L. ) -the brackets to show that Linnaeus had described his type under a different generic name . |
| 6 | Well then every three years all the wagg at the end , er they had to have an M O T. |
| 7 | Almost a hundred years later the Levellers , in the Putney debates , were to reach deadlock over the problem whether men without an assured livelihood could be admitted to the political nation . |
| 8 | Over a thousand years ago the Phoenix King Morvael introduced a system of training large bodies of troops to be called up from the populace . |