Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | one of the Medway Towns , adjacent to Chatham where CD passed the happiest years of his boyhood , 1817–22 . |
| 2 | Kings who showed independence risked the fate of Pleistoanax , exiled in 446 — most unfairly , because Sparta ratified his provisional settlement with Athens , which became the Thirty Years Peace ( p. 46 ) . |
| 3 | I found the early years far harder to cope with than the teens and others often agree with me . |
| 4 | He found the teenage years confusing — college would at least provide a different background , new faces , fresh distractions and , eventually , the chance to shake off ghetto restrictions , to escape . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But I think the political climate on that changed a few years ago , when there was the big influx of heroin onto the market … . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , it 's our centenary and we are charging the prices we charged a hundred years ago . ’ |
| 9 | If the cicadas erupted every 14 years , for instance , they could be exploited by a parasite species with a 7-year life cycle . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Kevin tried a few years ago and failed this time … he aims to make history … and if he does we 'll be there … |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This event , which took place at the Scarborough Congress in 1980 , epitomised the preceding years of change , as he spelt out in his farewell speech : The first BDA Congress I attended was nearly fifty years ago … |
| 14 | Then came the post-war years of austerity , the food and fuel shortages . |
| 15 | Not until the spring and summer of 1989 when , for the first time , the Thatcher government showed clear signs of frailty , with electoral defeats , economic difficulties , and internal acrimony which recalled the later years of Macmillan 's government in the early 1960s , did the critics begin to regain their confidence . |
| 16 | He paused to take a sip of wine as he recollected the distant years . |
| 17 | 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 ! |
| 18 | If anyone deserved a few years in an open prison it was Beamish . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It seemed a million years since the morning . |
| 24 | Broderick has faced more of a problem , since it seemed a few years back that he had stopped ageing . |
| 25 | Such then was the equipment and the ethos with which the Brewery faced the 50 years of violent growth which lifted it by 1914 to first place in the world league . |
| 26 | To get proof that these are not ‘ our ’ birds is not easy , but is illustrated by an incident which happened a few years ago . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Its history , if you skipped a thousand years , was as violent as Phnom Penh 's or Smolensk 's . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |