Example sentences of "three years ago [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three years ago Vasco da Gama and Botafogo left the Rio championship final claiming to have won the title and completing laps of honour . |
| 2 | But the remarkable thing is that three years ago Euravia did n't exist at all — except in the mind of its founder , Denis Mendoros , who had only lately arrived from his native Greece . |
| 3 | Three years ago Swindon were denied promotion because of financial irregularity . |
| 4 | Three years ago Anna McGurk was murdered by a man who 'd been bailed on a rape charge . |
| 5 | Three years ago France 's president , François Mitterrand , made a similar speech about Africa at La Baule . |
| 6 | Just over three years ago England defeated them 2-0 at Wembley , but Yugoslavia might have drawn or even won that game had they taken their chances . |
| 7 | Three years ago Mrs Cooper , from Darlington , suffered two miscarriages at 12 and nine weeks and realised how little support was available . |
| 8 | Three years ago Mrs Cooper , from Darlington , suffered two miscarriages at 12 and nine weeks and realised how little support was available . |
| 9 | Three years ago Adam Dent 's parents took him out of school because they thought he was n't making enough progress . |
| 10 | He says about three years ago Lord Rothschild asked us to restore the rock garden at Waddeson which had been overgrown since the 1920s . |
| 11 | Just over three years ago Dr Helmut Kohl , federal chancellor , declaimed in the remains of the Reichstag that the Wall , stretching beyond the former capital of a united Germany around 100 miles in length , was ‘ a monument to inhumanity which tears families apart and prevents human contact . ’ |
| 12 | Three years ago Peter Champion took over the King 's Head at Wootton near Woodstock . |
| 13 | Three years ago ICI successfully prevented a wholesaler in East Anglia from importing and selling a substandard version of the company 's lucrative Beta-blocker , Propranolol . |
| 14 | Only three years ago women returners were the flavour of the month . |
| 15 | Two or three years ago signs of such vulnerability would have attracted lots of predators , from home and abroad . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , three years ago Whitton was disturbed , agitated , as if he had seen a ghost . |
| 17 | THREE years ago Olivia Goldsmith went through an ugly , painful and expensive divorce . |
| 18 | Three years ago BP was n't even in the top half-dozen . |
| 19 | Just three years ago desktop publishing was virtually unheard of , today we are as familiar with it as with the spreadsheet , the word processor or the data base . |
| 20 | Three years ago Mr Taylor asked the Forest of Dean District Council to force his landlord to improve the building . |
| 21 | Three years ago Mike Phelan , now with Manchester United , was injured and Robert Fleck was given compassionate leave after his father died on the eve of the game . |
| 22 | Three years ago Labour was the preferred vehicle for anti-poll tax , anti-government sentiment . |
| 23 | Three years ago Miss Joyce was accused by the Today newspaper of stealing letters sent to Princess Anne by her equerry Commander Tim Lawerence . |
| 24 | For one thing , you have to realise that even three years ago Stephen was rather a different person — to look at , I mean , and to be with , and all that . |
| 25 | Three years ago Rover linked up with Honda , which took a 20 per cent stake in the company . |
| 26 | Three years ago Darlington Health Authority entered into a commitment with the Leukaemia Unit Fund that if we raised the £250,000 required for building and equipping a new unit they would provide the necessary staff and resources . |
| 27 | Three years ago riots were sparked by a ludicrous tale that Christians had used American-designed spray guns to stain Muslim women 's clothing with indelible crosses . |
| 28 | About three years ago Radio Shropshire broadcast a series covering four railways that have ceased to operate . |
| 29 | Three years ago John Small , a sheep farmer in the Mendip Hills , read an editorial in his local newspaper which claimed that foxes never killed lambs . |
| 30 | THREE years ago James Oberg won the New Scientist /Cutty Sark competition for his essay on unidentified flying objects . |