Example sentences of "[adv prt] [art] [det] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole school was closed down a few years ago . |
| 2 | I think I settled down a few years back . |
| 3 | The new methods of mass production , were unsuccessful and was closed down a few years later . |
| 4 | I think they closed it down a few years later . |
| 5 | Being of a so-called good family does n't mean much these days , and the sort of money required to keep things ticking over a few years back does n't get you anywhere now . |
| 6 | Picture a once decent apartment building in the Bronx , New York , a part of the city where poverty , drug abuse , AIDS , and prostitution abound , and witness over a few years how it is transformed into a miserable squat and ultimately bulldozed to make way for a new police station . |
| 7 | British farmers who sold up a few years ago to buy cheap agricultural land in France are also finding that the grass is no greener on the other side of the Channel , and costs more . |
| 8 | The view that almost everyone except the Commission subscribed to was summed up a few years later by the UN Economic Commission for Europe when it wrote in a report on damage surveys in many countries : ‘ Research results obtained so far indicate that air pollution is an essential , causal factor in the destabilisation of forests or even in the breakdown of some forest ecosystems . ’ |
| 9 | A good example of this is the Lambeth Lesbian and Gay Group which was set up a few years ago and whose meetings I attended three or four times . |
| 10 | ‘ He told me he could n't face the prospect of another divorce , which I understood because my parents split up a few years ago and it was very distressing , ’ she said . |
| 11 | Conventional Hollywood thinking in the late 1930s was summed up a few years later by Raymond Moley when he was discussing the general ethics of the Production Code . |
| 12 | I gave up a few years ago . ’ |
| 13 | First , Clary did appear without make-up in a photograph in Time Out a few years ago . |
| 14 | Here he elaborates on an argument sketched out a few years earlier , that the label ‘ postmodern ’ denoted the quality of being ‘ free to come to new terms with both realism and anti-realism , linearity and non-linearity , continuity and discontinuity ’ . |
| 15 | A comprehensive review of the problem of attempted suicide and its management was carried out a few years later by a committee chaired by Sir Denis Hill . |
| 16 | Scientific studies carried out a few years ago revealed that regular sunbed users ( those using a bed more than once a week over a period of a few years ) now have a condition called skin fragility syndrome . |
| 17 | The case study is based on an actual consumer behaviour investigation carried out a few years ago by a leading market research agency . |
| 18 | Erm , Andrew , er , I , I find that earlier on the , the only life cover you 've really got is one that you took out a few years ago , a very small one , and you took that out for a set number of years . |
| 19 | To understand how these families , regarded by their Orcadian neighbours as good , clean-living people , came to be at the centre of such serious allegations , it is necessary to go back a few years . |
| 20 | One of my favourite memories of her goes back a few years to when she was playing Martina Navratilova in New England . |
| 21 | The partnership of Müller and Völker dates back a few years to the Bayreuth Festival — we have extracts of their portrayals there of these roles in 1936 ( but studio-made ) on Telefunken ( available on a variety of labels on LP ) . |
| 22 | Although , if we wish to test the depth of these mid-Victorian fears and also to judge the constancy of the vocabularies of reaction , then we must edge back a few years to an episode that would bring back flogging as a judicial punishment almost as soon as it had been abolished . |
| 23 | Tyler and I go back a few years . |
| 24 | Going back a few years , Treasure Hunting , January 1983 issue , contains an article concerning a button that had been found , and requested information on the unit mentioned . |
| 25 | If we go back a few years , I do n't know how many people remember before we had DOPACS , I remember when projects used to come into the group from on high , they used to filter through the organization , until they landed on somebody 's desk who was actually supposed to carry out the work . |
| 26 | A trip to the blood donors may seem like a strange topic to write about in a staff magazine but it is one that took my mind back a few years to the first time my mum persuaded me to go . |
| 27 | Is it a recent alliance , or does it stretch back a few years and involve a few other deals ? |
| 28 | Oh yes you 're going back a few years ! |
| 29 | Oh I , I , I , I 'd one you know , oh I 'd one up , oh I 'm going back a few years now |
| 30 | but that was an old woman 's tale really , that 's going back a few years ago |