Example sentences of "[adj] years [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ship seemed a million light years away as she tilted her head back , letting the liquid slide coolly down her throat . |
| 2 | He thought to take Mr gross salary in the present financial year , to reduce it by a third to get from gross to net earnings and to do similar calculations for the rest of the three and a half years so as to arrive at the figure of fifty three thousand nine hundred and six pounds . |
| 3 | His knowledge of Birkdale paid off handsomely a few years later as he accompanied Arnold Palmer to Palmer 's first Open win . |
| 4 | A lost love or family tragedy had the same impact on a Ukrainian living 300 years ago as it does today on a 30-year-old singer living in Leeds . |
| 5 | — Iron Ladies in Stockton ( ) started out six years ago as just that , doing ironing . |
| 6 | It was as difficult for them to develop a public analysis of rape eight years ago as it is for them today publicly to acknowledge the extent of sexual abuse of girls and young women inside and outside the home . |
| 7 | She was apt to confuse the past with the present , talking of events that had happened forty or fifty years ago as though they had happened only the day before . |
| 8 | Trafalgar shares have slumped from a peak of £3.96 three years ago as the recession has bitten into profits . |
| 9 | According to Richard Prebble , then Minister for State-owned Enterprises , the two companies would reduce their holding in Telecom to 24.95 per cent each over the next three years so as to keep in line with the government 's planned 49.9 per cent limit on foreign ownership of the company . |
| 10 | In the village of Portlethen , some 15 miles outside Aberdeen , the main line station was closed many years ago as it was said to be uneconomic . |
| 11 | I had worked there many years before as a footman in one of old Mother Nightbird 's molly houses , from where she sold plump , perfumed flesh to the great lords and merchants of the city . |
| 12 | The effects of the oil industry observed in this study are also consistent with long established observations on both experimental and human epidemics which Topley summarised 50 years ago as indicating that outbreaks of many infective diseases can be produced simply by ‘ movements of susceptible and infected hosts in relation to one another , and aggregations or dispersals of human or animal herds . ’ |
| 13 | Mr Wells worked for the council for over 25 years initially as Group Training Officer becoming area training manager 25 years ago and Chief Executive and Training Director in 1984 . |
| 14 | And erm there are now only twenty five percent of butchers that there were ten years ago as well . |
| 15 | Pregnancy testing was as commonplace 4,000 years ago as it is today , although the results were more haphazard and far less reliable . |
| 16 | So you have a very particular view of the constitution , that given by the founding fathers and one which is still in force some seventy eighty years later as America headed towards its most momentous and divisive crisis in its history . |
| 17 | Written nearly eighty years before as marauding French forces seized their first tracts of territory in Cochin-China , they reflected his own deep conviction , derived from a totally different experience , in the ultimate supremacy of the spirit of man . |
| 18 | ‘ I last drafted Francis 's will twelve years ago as per his instructions and he returned it signed , everything in order . ’ |
| 19 | Twenty years later as many of you will remember Save The Children launched its stop polio campaign which in turn led to polio prevention becoming an integral part of world wide immunisation programmes . |
| 20 | Twenty years there as well ? |
| 21 | Planning started several years back as exhibits were re-assessed and others found to fill ‘ gaps ’ in the story of aviation , but the rework of the gallery itself was one of the quickest revamps the Museum has ever undertaken with work starting in January this year . |
| 22 | Sometimes he would revert to a previous journey to a particular spot and described his personal experiences of several years before as in Vol I , pp. 111–113 when he describes how he had made sketches for plate Nos. 46 , 47 and 49 of Sixty Large Etchings . |
| 23 | Hailed two years ago as one of the most important archaeological discoveries in Europe , the painted caves at Alave in northern Spain are decorated with images of animals , symbols and splashes of colour . |
| 24 | Jatinder came back to England two years ago as their son could not cope with the Indian climate . |
| 25 | This was a truly remarkable achievement for Chris , who was diagnosed two years ago as having medically untreatable tumours in his lungs . |
| 26 | Meeting informally on Jan. 21 in Dublin , the Irish capital , EC Foreign Ministers supported the Soviet Union 's call for the holding of a summit meeting of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) in 1990 rather than two years later as scheduled . |
| 27 | Built 200 years before as legal chambers , they still bore traces of their former grandeur : beams , joists , and bearing timbers of sound oak ; wainscoting and lofty rooms . |
| 28 | ANOREXIA NERVOSA is an eating disorder which has become an increasing problem over recent years especially as there is so much pressure these days to be ‘ thin ’ . |
| 29 | This strategy was invented seven years ago as Mr Harrison , as he then was , saw Racal 's difficulties in competing with the defence industry giants even after the takeover of Decca . |