Example sentences of "[be] [that] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is that two years , two and a quarter years ago I established a procedure in the Labour Party … ( uproar from audience ) . |
| 2 | What might be more dangerous is that forty years of so-called socialism have made people accustomed to a kind of egalitarianism , so that they will not readily tolerate great differences in income or lifestyle . |
| 3 | But the remarkable thing is that three years ago Euravia did n't exist at all — except in the mind of its founder , Denis Mendoros , who had only lately arrived from his native Greece . |
| 4 | One reason is that previous years ' figures were bloated by communist managers with an interest in padding their production numbers to get bonuses or promotion . |
| 5 | The result was that 15 years later the plaster was loose and needed replacement . |