Example sentences of "year ago a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few years ago a minute fossil only about 2 mm long was recovered from limestones of Ordovician age , and christened Janospira . |
| 2 | Six years ago a road accident left him severely injured . |
| 3 | 100 years ago a legion of artists and craftsmen made the same journey . |
| 4 | A few years ago a friend told me that he once started counting them . |
| 5 | Two or three years ago a friend of mine who is a publisher applied to me for help in dealing with a complaint from a man who had bought one of his cookery books . |
| 6 | Ancient Egypt , rather than Ancient Rome , was used to fine effect by Agatha Christie in Death Comes as the End and I have even reviewed , most favourably , some years ago a novel in which the great Aristotle , no less , was the sleuth . |
| 7 | Some years ago a man-hole was built behind the retaining wall . |
| 8 | Some years ago a humbucker was designed for Gibson that has a base plate which looks like a printed circuit board . |
| 9 | Forty years ago a Sunderland shirt-maker married a shipyard pattern-maker . |
| 10 | Five years ago a parent company acquired a recruitment agency subsidiary . |
| 11 | I remember a few years ago a lady bought a jumper to the knitting club , displaying it proudly and saying : ‘ it 's just some out of the washing machine ’ . |
| 12 | FROM tiny beginnings in Tubwell Row over 200 years ago a firm of international repute has grown . |
| 13 | While visiting Yugoslavia in those more happy days of some two years ago a member of the Swanage Railway noted the existence of a similar machine and reckoned that conversion would not be too difficult . |
| 14 | Three years ago a tortoise of ours got killed like that and on just about this very spot . |
| 15 | Readers may be surprised to learn that I have never owned anything larger than a 48″ × 18″ × 18″ , though at one point many years ago a 72″ × 18″ ( angle iron , with a divided front like the windscreen in very old Morris Minors ) nearly came to live with me . |
| 16 | For instance , some years ago a patient came to the out-patient department complaining of severe bouts of depression . |
| 17 | Twenty years ago a film concerning bears would use playful music for bears at play , and portray the animals as living teddy bears . |
| 18 | Ten years ago a New Zealand company was given a licence to dig it out . |
| 19 | Some years ago a man named John Powell wrote a book entitled Why Am I Afraid To Tell You Who I Am ? |
| 20 | In a contest which arose from such proceedings about five years ago a Man was killed . |
| 21 | Years ago a man walked in to the paper and said he wanted to confess to a murder — and to prove it , he had sawn-off sections of the body with him in a carrier bag . ’ |
| 22 | Several years ago a man working the beach not far from Happisburgh spotted what looked like a hunk of dull yellow glass lying on the sand . |
| 23 | At this mine two years ago a man was buried and later died after a massive roof fall in an extended cut section . |
| 24 | Two thousand years ago a sex manual written in China laid down a few guidelines for gauging a woman 's sexual characteristics from a careful study of her face . |
| 25 | Only a few years ago a drug 's prospects were easy to calculate . |
| 26 | He rubbed his chin , ‘ Some years ago a platelayer named Jed Knighton opted out of the rat race and became what I suppose you 'd call a tramp . |
| 27 | Four years ago a couple began work on a garden to be laid out on the site of an old country house . |
| 28 | Whereas a few years ago a mainframe computer would have been essential to perform corpus processing , a desktop computer now suffices . |
| 29 | Two years ago a report by ERL , a British consultancy firm , said there were two possibilities : direct charges on those using the plant , or an indirect levy , a tax on chemicals , say . |
| 30 | About erm eighteen months , two years ago a report was published , the Cockroft Report , this is the same Sir Wilfred Cockroft who 's chairing the Examination erm Council , which looked into the teaching of mathematics at all level in the country and it was an extremely good report and a lot has followed from it . |