Example sentences of "few years ago [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few years ago one could begin to glimpse a series of ‘ cushions ’ as IBM began to bring in more consultants , more temps , more part-timers , more student projects . |
| 2 | Only a few years ago no-one in the transport industry ever really thought about BS5750 and it was n't until companies started feeling pressure from customers , particularly in the field of hazardous goods that minds started to become focused on the benefits . |
| 3 | Yes a few years ago yu were seen as a weirdo |
| 4 | A few years ago no … came away from Pontypool without a few bruises and a thorough beating by the famous front row … those days have long gone … |
| 5 | Erm again , this is why er er jogging at th at this point became so er popular if you remember everyb er a little while , few years ago everybody was rushing out jogging and there are still people who are doing it . |
| 6 | When I conducted a " phone-in " on sleep and dreaming on a local radio station a few years ago somebody called in to ask what I had to say about flying dreams . |
| 7 | A few years ago they were making some of the best pop singles you could play on a jukebox : ‘ Something About You ’ , ‘ Leaving Me Now ’ , ‘ Lessons In Love ’ , all the kind of thing that you felt you were going to be sick of hearing before long but which still sounded good after the thousandth time . |
| 8 | ‘ Only a few years ago they were plenty of colliers playing rugby in Wales . |
| 9 | These are the new boys on the stylish restaurant scene — a few years ago they were few and far between . |
| 10 | Companies are keen to adopt the ‘ open ’ moniker simply for that purpose : how many suppliers these days describe themselves as open systems companies , when just a few years ago they would probably have sneered at the term . |
| 11 | Indonesia has large industries , recently developed in the country , and are exporting large quantities to saw mills , whereas a few years ago they were exporting to lots , they are now exporting saw wood and ply wood . |
| 12 | ‘ A few years ago we realised we had lost our way , ’ says The Economist UK marketing manager Chantal Hughes . |
| 13 | ‘ A few years ago we 'd be down the piano bar listening to … ’ |
| 14 | A few years ago we had rows all the time about politics but more recently we kept off the subject most of the time . |
| 15 | A few years ago we bought a company called who manufacture all the filters that we use . |
| 16 | A few years ago we hoped that a footpath would have been incorporated in the flood protection scheme . |
| 17 | ‘ A few years ago we thought the Butter Market could have been made into a little museum but it would have been difficult to cross the roads into it . ’ |
| 18 | But a few years ago we were at a session in a pub one night erm playing music and er there was about twenty of us and about two o'clock in the morning the police raided it and we all had our names taken and we were all up in court and we were all fined I think three pound for being er drinking after hours and Tony was drinking a cup of coffee . |
| 19 | Also , the land which stretches back to Rockhill Farm from Swingswang on the opposite side of that road is all part and parcel of the County Council smallholdings , and only two fields away they sold off a piece of land a few years ago which has now been developed on to the frontage of the Banbury Road , which is in fact the Cromwell Business Park . |
| 20 | A few years ago my pair of Zebra Finches decided to become parents . |
| 21 | A few years ago you wrote about the merits of sarkandas reed as a waggler material . |
| 22 | A few years ago you would not have caught me talking about underground publishing ; I have too many bad memories from the Seventies . |
| 23 | ‘ A few years ago you would niver have heard of such a thing . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ But until a few years ago you were chairman , Mr Glastonbury . ’ |
| 25 | A few years ago I wanted to invest in a new spindle moulder . |
| 26 | Emergency wanted A few years ago I wrote a little book called Discovering Backpacking . |
| 27 | For instance , a few years ago I studied paul Simon 's music quite extensively . |
| 28 | ‘ A few years ago I gave a lecture at Preston Polytechnic and afterwards nine black girls , some of them with toddlers , stayed behind and we began to talk . |
| 29 | A few years ago I saw a modification with two small hydraulic servos , one fitted to the front and one fitted to the rear brake pipes , ahead of the brake failure device . |
| 30 | A few years ago I was a guest in an Indian village . |