Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [verb] a [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Horacio Bento Gouveia 's writings include romantic novels set in Madeira and , although he died a few years ago now , he remains the best known of Madeiran writers . |
| 2 | Salman Rushdie 's The Satanic Verses illustrated that while our now largely secular society regards blasphemy as rather less heinous than it did a hundred years ago some parts of our society are offended to such an extent that the call for retribution goes beyond censorship . |
| 3 | The Devil no more threatens Christians today , we might think , than he did a thousand years ago . |
| 4 | Until she died a few years ago , a wise woman lived there , a strange being who wore outlandish brightly-coloured clothes and had feathers in her hair . |
| 5 | Its history , if you skipped a thousand years , was as violent as Phnom Penh 's or Smolensk 's . |
| 6 | You 'll never profit from it if you live a hundred years . |
| 7 | It was one of the few remaining to keep an old cinema organ until it closed a few years ago . |
| 8 | I used to work with him in my mother 's shop — he worked there for twenty-five years , until he died a few years ago . |
| 9 | If anyone deserved a few years in an open prison it was Beamish . |
| 10 | Broderick has faced more of a problem , since it seemed a few years back that he had stopped ageing . |
| 11 | My memories of it , I 've got , I 've always got wonderful memories of the Co-op , you see and that Co-op has been there m on that corner which , when it closed a few years ago I went down to see the present executive officer , he was then assistant , and we campaigned against the closing of Walsall Wood shop but erm course it was of no avail . |
| 12 | The Working Men 's College says today , as it said a hundred years ago : ‘ We seek no greater good than education ; we scorn to justify it save by itself . ’ |
| 13 | Tom 's latest acquisition is EMF 's Unbelievable and he makes the song as much his own as he did a few years ago with Prince 's Kiss . |