Example sentences of "many years ago [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not so many years ago parents would have thought nothing of their children walking two or three miles to school in the morning and back again in the afternoon . |
| 2 | Many years ago scientists tried to develop machines that produced speech from a vocabulary of pre-recorded words ; the machines were designed to join these words together to form sentences . |
| 3 | Many years ago Fathalla proposed that repeated minor trauma to ovarian epithelium caused by ‘ incessant ovulation ’ increased the risk of cancer . |
| 4 | Many years ago Tony came to Iceland as a raw teenage cyclist . |
| 5 | Many years ago Tony and I sat drinking coffee and swapping experiences . |