Example sentences of "few years ago [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes a few years ago yu were seen as a weirdo |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ Only a few years ago they were plenty of colliers playing rugby in Wales . |
| 4 | These are the new boys on the stylish restaurant scene — a few years ago they were few and far between . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ A few years ago we realised we had lost our way , ’ says The Economist UK marketing manager Chantal Hughes . |
| 8 | ‘ A few years ago we 'd be down the piano bar listening to … ’ |
| 9 | A few years ago we had rows all the time about politics but more recently we kept off the subject most of the time . |
| 10 | A few years ago we bought a company called who manufacture all the filters that we use . |
| 11 | A few years ago we hoped that a footpath would have been incorporated in the flood protection scheme . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | A few years ago you wrote about the merits of sarkandas reed as a waggler material . |
| 15 | A few years ago you would not have caught me talking about underground publishing ; I have too many bad memories from the Seventies . |
| 16 | ‘ A few years ago you would niver have heard of such a thing . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ But until a few years ago you were chairman , Mr Glastonbury . ’ |
| 18 | A few years ago I wanted to invest in a new spindle moulder . |
| 19 | Emergency wanted A few years ago I wrote a little book called Discovering Backpacking . |
| 20 | For instance , a few years ago I studied paul Simon 's music quite extensively . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | A few years ago I was a guest in an Indian village . |
| 24 | A few years ago I and my two sons made an amazing discovery — a discovery we shared with a few of our colleagues here . |
| 25 | I usually make my own curtains but a few years ago I decided to make use of a free making-up service offered by a large department store . |
| 26 | A third noted : ‘ A few years ago I would have said gay or weak , but it 's improving , ’ |
| 27 | A few years ago I saw a catalogue offering Scotch , sometimes called ‘ Burnett ’ , roses . |
| 28 | A few years ago I saw a couple of Eastenders stars come in erm and Ross whatever his name forget his name there were two young girls standing in front of me scraping pennies out of their purse to get in though we loved that character they wanted to come that night we 've got to get girls like that youngsters like that interested to come on other nights and then come again that 's what needs doing . . |
| 29 | When I read Mary Gordon 's Final Payments a few years ago I shuddered with relief at having broken the spell of what had been wished on me . |
| 30 | And there was an instance a few years ago I think where they were going somewhere in Glasgow and a toilet was put in |