Example sentences of "[det] years [adv] [prep] [art] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The photograph had been taken some years ago at a GLC panto . |
| 2 | I 'll remember instead another lecture I once attended , some years ago at the Cheltenham Literary Festival . |
| 3 | Fr Rice has taken over the running of a detoxification centre started some years ago by a Mill Hill priest who died recently . |
| 4 | The strength of feeling that could be raised by what was felt in many quarters to be the attack of modern criticism on the authority of the Bible was shown again some years later in the Robertson Smith case in Scotland . |
| 5 | That was followed a few years later by the Meadows situation in Dallas , Texas , where Alger Meadows had bought from two travelling Frenchmen a whole collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works which were all fakes . |
| 6 | The view that almost everyone except the Commission subscribed to was summed up a few years later by the UN Economic Commission for Europe when it wrote in a report on damage surveys in many countries : ‘ Research results obtained so far indicate that air pollution is an essential , causal factor in the destabilisation of forests or even in the breakdown of some forest ecosystems . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | N. American Star has been available for a few years here in the UK . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | There was a ring of sadness in his voice which she found puzzling until she remembered something from the past — Eddie 's voice repeating what he 'd told her all those years ago at the Oulton Park circuit . |
| 11 | No , no — freedom with responsibility , that was the elusive formula we pondered all those years ago at the LSE . |
| 12 | In fact , immediately upon accepting the Treaty of Rome , the Benelux states agreed in substance in February 1959 to a new treaty of economic union , beginning in January 1960 and to last for 50 years , several years ahead of the Rome programme . |
| 13 | Preliminary information has indicated that usage of this model of belt was prohibited several years ago by a CAA Airworthiness Directive . |
| 14 | The most significant objection , however , was that it would have precluded private prosecutions , the importance of which was amply illustrated several years ago by the Glasgow rape case . |