Example sentences of "[det] years [adv] in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | Noble had been allowed to dissect the last of Kammerer 's nuptial pad specimens ( the rest had been destroyed some years earlier in a fire ) . |
| 3 | One of the most poignant studies is of a graceful ten-year-old girl who drowned a few years later in a Mississippi boating accident . |
| 4 | ‘ Liverpool have exploited that but it first came to me many years ago in a charity match at Newcastle . |
| 5 | This division was well laid out many years ago in a Ministry of Health memorandum issued with HM(65)77 , the needs of the two categories of elderly people being quite different . |
| 6 | A Japanese aristocrat , which I first came across many years ago in a Berkshire woodland garden , is Kirengeshoma palmata , with large , lobed , vine-like leaves on dark 3ft stems . |