Example sentences of "[num] year [adv] at a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This man was immediately recognised as a man called Alfie or Alfred Hogan who the witness knew sixteen years ago at a bakery . |
| 2 | Counting those in the bristle-cone pine establishes that some of these gnarled and twisted trees germinated over five thousand years ago at a time when man in the Middle East was just beginning to invent writing , and have remained alive throughout the entire duration of civilisation . |
| 3 | The Wildlife Department had tried to rescue a similar herd some ten years before at a place called Uda Walawe . |
| 4 | Eva related a similar incident some thirty years later at a meeting entitled " Give to Jesus Glory " . |
| 5 | Helen Hayes and Vincent Price in Victoria Regina which was a Broadway triumph in 1935 Helen Hayes two years ago at a Washington gala |
| 6 | Two years ago at an exhibition centre gig the military two-step intro to their Top 20 hit She Comes in the Fall was played by Lancashire 's version of the Dagenham Girl Pipers . |
| 7 | The Movement increased its membership from 5,000 in 1929 to 40,000 two years later at a time when the Communist Party was at its lowest ebb . |
| 8 | He looked — which Tobie in particular did n't care for — uncommonly like the way he had looked more than two years before at a place called Skylolimne ; and later at another place called Kerasous . |
| 9 | He became a protector of the species four years ago at a time when badger baiting had reached alarming proportions . |
| 10 | They had met four years earlier at a Christmas party in the village , where Mrs Williams ( nee Theakston ) lived and Mr Williams , originally from Shildon , had relatives . |
| 11 | Three or four years perhaps at a time . |
| 12 | Modern human fossils 100000 years old are known and humans were widespread in southern Africa by 50 000 years ago at a time when Europe was still populated by the related Neanderthals . |