Example sentences of "some year [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 For example , support given some years ago to a postgraduate in Theoretical Chemistry , Mark Bayley , led to offers of collaboration between Bristol , Yale and a German University .
2 The authority 's predecessor river board granted a consent some years ago with a number of parameters : 20 BOD , 100 p.p.m. suspended solids ( relaxed from the usual 30 ) , and various metals , including zinc , consented to the standard 0.5 p.p.m .
3 Does he recall the debate that took place some years ago about the deployment of cruise missiles ?
4 The Law Society 's Accident Legal Advice Service ( ALAS ) started some years ago as a way of promoting personal injury work .
5 In other areas , precedent established some years ago in the light of circumstances then may be disputable in relation to the present day .
6 Its natural environment , its four national parks , its recreational facilities are supremely attractive — just the sort of advantage exploited in America some years ago in the model high-tech regeneration of Georgia and the Carolinas .
7 An initiative first launched some years ago by a member of Her Majesty 's Inspectorate , the Hotel Employers Group and education groups were revived in 1992 .
8 The old hand-chiselled level was opened some years ago by the writer and a description of this , along with these others , is given in the guide to the orefield and its mines .
9 The points at which fighting was fiercest were Shalamcheh and Fish Lake , a reservoir constructed by the Iraqi forces some years earlier as a barrier against anticipated attempts to take Basrah .
10 CD had already satirized the Movement some years earlier in a piece for The Examiner ( 3 June 1843 ) , ‘ Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the Condition of the Persons variously engaged in the University of Oxford ’ ( collected in MP ) .
11 Noble had been allowed to dissect the last of Kammerer 's nuptial pad specimens ( the rest had been destroyed some years earlier in a fire ) .
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