Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the strangest case on record is that described five years ago in The Lancet ( 1978 , vol 2 , p 952 ) by Dr M. Loughhead and two colleagues at the Royal Hobart Hospital , Tasmania . |
| 2 | For Washburn 20 years of visual carnage has meant increasing mental instability and a compulsion to uncover the truth behind a murder that occurred 120 years before . |
| 3 | Some Old Testament books describe events that occurred many years before they were written . |
| 4 | Well that happened two years ago did n't it ? |
| 5 | ‘ David brings up situations that happened five years ago and still writes about them . |
| 6 | A spokesman for Midland said : ‘ They are technical rule breaches that happened three years ago . |
| 7 | I 've always had better things to do with my time than to plot hypothetical revenge for something that happened ten years ago ! ’ she snapped . |
| 8 | ‘ Do you really believe I 'd have blown a career I loved just to get even with you for something that happened ten years ago ? |
| 9 | Furthermore , as the gilded eagle seems poised for take-off to do battle with enemy hordes coming from the south-east , the memorial seems to have anticipated most aptly the events that followed 17 years after its unveiling . |
| 10 | From their discarded belongings she had made a museum that recorded forty years of family history . |
| 11 | Using a national cancer registry that started 50 years ago , we examined trends of anal cancer in Denmark . |
| 12 | That latter race was to be the forerunner of the great Paris races that started seven years later when continental manufacturers would use the races to show off their vehicles . |
| 13 | She was going to a flat which would have very little growing space , apart from the odd window box , and was leaving behind an extremely beautiful garden that contained many years of memories . |
| 14 | A career that spanned seven years at Oldham and four years with Hibs can now be seen only as preparation for the place where , and the time when , Goram would reach a higher plane of achievement . |
| 15 | TransTools ' latest product is MultiBase , an applications development tool for relational databases that took four years to develop . |
| 16 | And so — in my case very reluctantly , in a slow process of decision-making that took two years — we have taken the road to Budapest . |
| 17 | Unveiled : the jigsaw that took ten years |
| 18 | Largely missing from de Gaulle 's account were the dilemmas , ambiguities , illusions , deceptions , and self-deceptions that gave these years their poignancy . |
| 19 | I did n't know the person but I knew of her and I knew a friend of mine went to her , this is the one that did seven years . |
| 20 | Then , suddenly , when a manager had responsibility for tasks and projects that exceeded five years in scope , everyone seemed to perceive a difference not only in the scope of responsibility but also in its quality and in the kind of work and worker required to discharge it . |
| 21 | I know it because I see people regularly that retired five years ago six years ago , seven . |
| 22 | The colony are the survivors of 60 baboons which escaped from a safari park that closed 20 years ago . |
| 23 | I was in prison on remand for three weeks , then I went to court and got three years ' probation . |
| 24 | The Royal Commission on Local Government , under the chairmanship of Lord Redcliffe-Maud , was appointed in 1967 and reported two years later . |
| 25 | Counting the cost of a fire which has brought his business to a standstill and caused ten years of research to go up in smoke . |
| 26 | The disguise was good and added ten years to him . |
| 27 | The penny farthing was an extremely difficult bicycle to ride , but Thomas Stevens left San Francisco on one in 1884 and returned two years later having ridden 13,500 miles round the world . |
| 28 | The greatest German composer of the seventeenth century , Heinrich Schutz , studied in Venice with Giovanni Gabrieli , composed Italian madrigals there , and returned twenty years later to sit at the feet of Monteverdi . |
| 29 | He was released in 1960 and rehabilitated three years later . |
| 30 | Early in the 1950s , Richard Titmuss pointed out that the average working class woman marrying in her teens or early twenties during the 1890s experienced ten pregnancies and spent fifteen years in pregnancy and nursing compared with an average of four years so spent by her counterpart in the years following World War II . |