Example sentences of "[adj] year [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 It was the room they had shared for 30 years since they had moved in to claim his inheritance .
2 All the old favourites are there in a medley of hits which , like him , have hardly failed to age over 30 years since they first hit the charts .
3 Joan nursed at the Memorial for more than 30 years before she retired due to ill health .
4 Adding to his work of 30 years before he proved Galois ' assertion that if a finite group G contains pm elements , p being a prime , when G contains a subgroup of order p .
5 It took him more than 30 years before he told anyone other than friends of his terrifying experience .
6 There may be a latent period of 30 years before it actually erupts .
7 Golf 's popularity was putting pressure on the course because more local people played , and earlier in the day than previously , so the Artisans ' starting time was brought forward to ‘ no later than 8.30 a.m. ’ ( 30 years before it was 9.30 a.m . ) .
8 The technique in question is Bob Blake 's Managerial Grid , still going strong 30 years after it was developed in the US , and likely to show new life in the UK now that management consultants P-E International have taken on the somewhat dusty licence .
9 He still lives on the outskirts of his adopted city close on 30 years after he signed for them .
10 During his time at the flour mill ( which is actually 30 years if you include an earlier spell ) he has been mixerman , cuber operator , machine man , bran packer and even cleaner — when there were seven employees per shift !
11 Harry put in 410 League appearances for Crystal Palace and that stood as a record for over 30 years until it was overtaken by Terry Long in the late 1960s .
12 I 'm beginning to be quite confident that we were right , though it will be some years before we can be really certain we 've made the breakthrough .
13 Though debt-for-equity swaps represent one way for banks to recover part of their developing country debt exposure , they still stand to lose money and look likely to have to wait for some years before they can cash in their equity stakes .
14 It was some years before they were replaced and the legend on the present bridge at the airport tells the story ; Built 1885 .
15 no it was some years before she re-married again
16 The drug 's being tested by cancer specialists … although it could be some years before it 's generally available .
17 It was some years before I went that way again , and something had happened .
18 It was some years before I actually tried to ride it , and that was all because of the kindness of Martin from Sunderland .
19 The high sides will help prevent the gravel being kicked into the garden , so it will be some years before you need to top it up .
20 Without a base , then , Mario had only his private ambitions to fulfil , and it was to be some years before he did .
21 LEFT Fred Hoyle in 1955 , some years before he , Bond i and Gold propounded the Steady State Theory of the Universe .
22 It is some years since it became generally if reluctantly accepted that sport and politics can not be separated .
23 It is some years since I was wont to use the language , though I spoke it often enough at home in Russia .
24 It was some years since I had seen his signature .
25 He added that it had been some years since he had been back in England .
26 It was not for some years after we had separated that I had to face the fact that the deepest part of one 's being is always inaccessible to another , and that only when we are lost in passion , eager above all else for our own gratification — yet unconscious that this is the case — that we ignore the gulf , forget that we are strangers .
27 They had lain dormant for some years after she had left the cottage , but he knew now they had simply been growing in the warm darkness of his being where love bred …
28 I had known Bruce for some years as he often ministered to friends , and on two or three occasions when he had laid his hands on my back , the heat emanating from them was like a blowtorch .
29 I had known the family for some years as I had been Mrs Singh 's English tutor on a local authority adult literacy programme .
30 Jo Durie , who has again carried the ladies game , made her own thoughts very clear and at this rate it could be some years until she is beaten regularly by a British girl .
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