Example sentences of "years [adv] [pron] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other instance : we are told on unimpeachable authority that a woman is looking forward to the birth of her daughter ; years later we read of a young man arriving on the scene . |
| 2 | Some years later it appeared from a decision in the Chancery Division that the tolls had been unlawfully demanded and the plaintiff sued for their recovery . |
| 3 | About two-and-a-half years later I walked into a small clothes shop to see the celebrity holding court . |
| 4 | Ten years later he quit as a parish priest to concentrate on his pro-life activities . |
| 5 | Three years ago they went through a ‘ cultural revolution ’ like Mao 's in China : Personnel apparatchiks were sent out into the field to become generalists , with only dotted lines back to their personnel masters . |
| 6 | Some years ago we lent to a colleague a memory-training book with a very attractive title , which implied that after studying the book the reader would have a superb memory for all occasions . |
| 7 | About three years ago we moved to a farm . |
| 8 | The prosection claims they tampered with a statement in a fraud case five years ago which led to a man being jailed for six years . |
| 9 | Nearly a hundred years ago there emerged from an obscure Suffolk parish an eight hundred year old manuscript book of the Gospels . |
| 10 | Gamekeeper John Bosher returning to the Blenheim estate wood where 10 years ago he came across a half decomposed body . |
| 11 | ABOUT three years ago you wrote about a mystery viral illness called Myalgic Encephalomyelitis . |
| 12 | It 's to do with the Government housing policy at national level , but there are certain things we can do , and I remember about two and a half years ago I arranged for a group of people to come and give a seminar to the Housing Committee . |
| 13 | Some years ago I worked with a golfer who had achieved a considerable amount of success , winning several amateur trophies . |
| 14 | Many years ago I worked as a Time and Motion Study ( Work Study ) officer in industry , where the question was always : why ca n't all workers produce the output achieved by the best workers ? |
| 15 | Twenty years earlier he fled from an elder brother plotting to kill him . |