Example sentences of "[adj] years [adv] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Novae are now believed to be caused by gas spilling from one star to another in a close double-star system , but 30 years ago they were a complete mystery ; only two dozen had been spotted in time for astronomers to study them while they were still erupting . |
| 2 | What we 're actually lo doing here is those of longer members who remember we used to have a thing called the area health authority which was proposed in a three tier structure by a corporation called the McKenzie corporation at great expense charity governed by three quarters of a million pounds to invent structure of the National Health Service nineteen seventy two some years later they came back and said , well give us another million pounds and we 'll go back and look at it again , and say actually we were wrong , and they abolished the areas , and produced districts ! |
| 3 | For some years now they had licensing agreements with some major U S companies to produce ‘ Laura Ashley ’ designs on sheets and other home furnishings . |
| 4 | The thirteen children who developed schizophrenia could be characterised by the following factors : their birth had been relatively difficult ( longer and more complicated than average ) ; most of them had been separated from both parents and many placed in children 's homes at a young age ; they posed a disciplinary problem to their teachers ; and some years earlier they had had a rapid autonomic nervous system ( ANS ) recovery rate . |
| 5 | Forty years ago they were a bit … ’ |
| 6 | Forty years ago they would have all been half-colonels in Intelligence . |
| 7 | Thirty and Forty years ago they played to packed houses up and down the country … now they 're doing it again |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ Only a few years ago they were plenty of colliers playing rugby in Wales . |
| 10 | These are the new boys on the stylish restaurant scene — a few years ago they were few and far between . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | That was , that was what the crew were getting four pound a week and course my father that time he done away with a cabin boy so I had to do more or less two jobs , see if I were n't working on deck I 'd go down and clean the cabins and that 's how , that 's how we kept the money going course then after a few years when they got to the finish about nineteen thirty one then the harbourmaster turned round and he ruc reduced our wages five shillings a week , so we were getting three pound fifteen a week . |
| 14 | In Australia six years ago they released a squealingly plump piglet onto the field , with the legend ‘ Eddie ’ daubed on its side . |
| 15 | Six years ago they attacked my uncle 's prahu , killing him and everyone on board for their cargo . " |
| 16 | Five years six years ago they introduced the postal wallets because they found that estate agents were sending the very expensive glossy brochures out in the post . |
| 17 | She married solicitor , David Ashby in 1974 , and six years later they parted . |
| 18 | Whereas , in 1964 , the Russians had only about a quarter of America 's total of ICBM 's , six years later they had achieved parity . |
| 19 | Six years earlier they 'd played brother and sister in another soap opera , Skyways . |
| 20 | The Japanese learned that their Far Eastern neighbours were better at making portable radios and black and white televisions and for some years now have passed over production of these items when only 10 years ago they were world leaders . |
| 21 | The 1861 census enumerator had caught the family at the height of its expansion ; 10 years later they were down to two children , one of whom would be leaving home very shortly . |
| 22 | Formerly I had an English couple who used to come every day , that lasted seven or eight years then they got too old . |
| 23 | Fifty years later they captured Delphi , if only for a brief period . |
| 24 | Fifty years ago they were in closer touch . |
| 25 | Fifty years ago they would have said this trip was impossible ; crouching on beaches , men in their teens and early twenties had believed they would never see another dawn . |
| 26 | In later years when they were reduced to penury , she displayed great moral heroism in preserving intact the framework of a family and a household , which alone enabled her husband to continue his work . |
| 27 | Audiences have tired of Danish and German bands , though only three years ago they accepted them with open arms . |
| 28 | Three years ago they would have hesitated before speaking against the Seven ; now — however covertly — they sanctioned armed rebellion . |
| 29 | When the radical proposals on general practitioner fundholding were put forward three years ago they were not enthusiastically received by most of the medical profession . |
| 30 | 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 . |