Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [num] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Times Beach unwittingly became contaminated ten years ago , when trucks sprayed the town 's unpaved streets with waste oil containing dioxin , an extremely toxic byproduct of a common herbicide . |
| 2 | I stopped smoking two years ago and I stopped doing all the silly drugs and drink nearly six years ago , so you naturally gravitate towards quite a healthy diet . |
| 3 | In 1987 AMV invested in McBain Noel-Johnson , a design and advertising agency which Baulk helped found 20 years ago . |
| 4 | Kenny Everett said : ‘ I stopped watching 10 years ago because it was hideously irritating . |
| 5 | The Jerusalem that Richard tried to capture 700 years ago is proof of that . |
| 6 | At St Martin 's School of Art , where they 'd met three years previously , they had already decided to make themselves the subject of their art . |
| 7 | The stern , slightly pained expressions on the saints ' white and pink faces seemed to reflect fifty years or more of having a brass trumpet sounding in their ears . |
| 8 | That was what Lord Weinstock did when his GEC seemed threatened two years ago . |
| 9 | I 'd done twenty years in the family planning and I 'd done twelve years on the council and I 'd done thirty years as school governor . |
| 10 | He would of course require a pastoral call even if he did not — and his car did not bode well — look like the kind of man Peter might hope for , as a breath of fresh air on the PCC ; as a possible churchwarden in place of old Sir Francis Mayhew who said he 'd done fifteen years which was more than enough ; or even as a parishioner willing to raise the £25,000 that the diocesan architect had said would have to be spent on Loxford church roof within the next three years . |
| 11 | I 'd done twenty years in the family planning and I 'd done twelve years on the council and I 'd done thirty years as school governor . |
| 12 | Anyway to finish that story about stopping and starting , I stopped there for fifty years and me mother was still alive when er when I at ninety three and when I retired in nineteen seventy nine , nineteen eighty I told me mum that I was finishing and she looked at me I told you that job would n't last and I , I , I mean I 'd done fifty years all but a few months . |
| 13 | I 'd done twenty years in the family planning and I 'd done twelve years on the council and I 'd done thirty years as school governor . |
| 14 | I did n't know , she 'd done three years she said ! |
| 15 | Imagine if he found out that the frock I claimed I 'd bought two years ago in a closing-down sale had , in fact , arrived in my wardrobe a little over two weeks ago , having been purchased from a smart department store ? |
| 16 | When I needed some black shoes for the annual ASP banquet in Honolulu , Bodo van der Leeden dug out a pair he 'd bought fifteen years before . |
| 17 | John Lee Hooker : ‘ Woke up this mornin' , found I 'd had 43 years of chart activity … ’ |
| 18 | I 'd had twenty-five years of booze and using other recreational substances . |
| 19 | Changi Jail was still there , though , together with the old sergeants ' mess he 'd known 40 years earlier . |
| 20 | Could n't she see that this was not the same Silas she 'd known three years ago ? |
| 21 | Elizabeth agreed to do our programme after we 'd spent five years gently hammering at her representatives — and of course we were n't the only people after her , the whole world was beating at her door . |
| 22 | ‘ My friend , if you 'd spent two years burning up with sulphur injections , or shaking from haloperidol , you too might develop certain uncanny abilities . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'd spent two years at Stanford University Press , so I knew something about price ceilings . ’ |
| 24 | The Prime Minister and senior Cabinet colleagues gathered at the House of Commons Church … it was a fitting place for Nicholas Ridley 's memorial service , he 'd spent 33 years of his life at the centre of British politics . |
| 25 | We 'd spent seven years rehearsing the same plays , playing in the same team , calling the same teachers by their nicknames and falling in love with the same classmates . |
| 26 | She seemed to shed ten years in one second as she hollered , ‘ Oy , Richard ! ’ at the top of her voice across the car-park . |
| 27 | Kenny Scharf belongs to a group of East Village artists which came to notice ten years ago and included Keith Haring and Jean Michel Basquiat . |
| 28 | It was such an odd feeling , as if I 'd lost twenty years somewhere . |
| 29 | He looked as though he 'd lost twenty years , as though a ten-ton weight had been lifted from his shoulders . |
| 30 | You always knew when a child was lying , by the light in the child 's eyes , as she 'd discovered twenty-seven years ago with her own Winnie . |