Example sentences of "[vb past] a [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | We still grow some of the varieties listed a hundred years ago many of which had already been improved by the 1890s , some favourites like ‘ White Lisbon ’ spring onions and ‘ Scarlet Globe ’ and ‘ French Breakfast ’ radishes were also established . |
| 2 | But I think the political climate on that changed a few years ago , when there was the big influx of heroin onto the market … . |
| 3 | Salmon , who was an intimate friend of Picasso 's at this time , described a few years later his restless state of mind : ‘ Picasso was unsettled . |
| 4 | ‘ Yes , it 's our centenary and we are charging the prices we charged a hundred years ago . ’ |
| 5 | One classic er case that only occurred a few years ago and it was way before bonfire night , but erm , people working from home to try and make a little bit of pin money , a young lady had taken on the task of putting sparklers into five into a little bag for a particular manufacturer . |
| 6 | Kevin tried a few years ago and failed this time … he aims to make history … and if he does we 'll be there … |
| 7 | Child benefit is the only benefit which is in fact available to women , even then the government tried a few years ago to change that and to make it paid to the man . |
| 8 | They have a very special significance , and how I wish I had known how to press flowers when I was given my first red roses by my husband , but unfortunately I learnt a few years too late ! |
| 9 | If anyone deserved a few years in an open prison it was Beamish . |
| 10 | Mr Creme believes Christ has already come again — came a few years ago actually — and is now residing in the Asian community in London , waiting for a more receptive attitude from the press before He shows Himself on worldwide television , when ‘ He wo n't actually speak , but His thoughts , His ideas , His call to humanity , will take place silently , telepathically . ’ |
| 11 | In 1752 Horace Walpole instructed his brother , Ned , to collect tea seed ; Gilbert White came a few years later to discuss difficulties over growing melons at Selborne ; and Charles Hatton selected two pots of passion flower , ‘ lusty and strong ’ in April 1760 . |
| 12 | One of the sharpest recessions came a few years after the Conservative government , sensitive to the enormous profits made in earlier years , had imposed ( in 1963 ) a variable levy rising to 45 per cent on the companies ' advertising revenue ( as distinct from their profits ) . |
| 13 | But she liked the money , and the new house , and the new dresses — and the six fields of apple trees and the big farm north of Stratford that came a few years later . |
| 14 | It seemed a million years since the morning . |
| 15 | Broderick has faced more of a problem , since it seemed a few years back that he had stopped ageing . |
| 16 | To get proof that these are not ‘ our ’ birds is not easy , but is illustrated by an incident which happened a few years ago . |
| 17 | Modern plastics and silicones have made pipe connections so easy : no more messing about with tarred hemp and mortar , which inevitably cracked and leaked a few years later . |
| 18 | Its history , if you skipped a thousand years , was as violent as Phnom Penh 's or Smolensk 's . |
| 19 | The new calendar , now known as the ‘ Young-Avestan calendar ’ appears to have been adopted in the reign of Cambyses ' great successor Darius I. The most thorough and plausible investigation of the date of its introduction is that made a few years ago by the distinguished historian of ancient astronomy the late Willy Hartner of Frankfurt University . |
| 20 | In a survey on shopping which I made a few years ago one of my student interviewers was questioning an old lady about the grocer 's shop she used . |
| 21 | This was typical ‘ normal science ’ — the very necessary filling-in operation which had to follow the categorically original discoveries made a few years earlier by the chief . |
| 22 | One of the wonder boys we sold a few years back was Ian Snodin , to Everton . |
| 23 | Certainly not as well as her books sold a few years ago . |
| 24 | He contrasted the " long rearguard action " that EC car makers fought a few years ago against tougher emission controls with the " very encouraging " willingness by industrial producers and users of chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) to phase these substances out on a largely voluntary basis . |
| 25 | you got a few years back . |
| 26 | The survey — ‘ mapping the universe ’ — which Geller and Huchra began a few years ago is not yet complete but they have seen enough to conclude that ‘ the size of the largest structures we detect is limited only by the extent of the survey ’ . |
| 27 | There followed a few years as a ‘ journeyman ’ caddy , industrious years but without great success . |
| 28 | There followed a few years when the situation looked bright . |
| 29 | There followed a few years of growth with turnover increasing from £11 million 1982 to £18 million in 1987 . |
| 30 | And the judge imposed a three years and four months jail sentence — the time she has already served in prison . |