Example sentences of "[vb pp] a [det] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the large Gothic window of the chapel was replaced by a smaller one , and bay windows were added a few years later , it is still , in Pugin 's own words , ‘ the only modern building that is complete in every part in the ancient style ’ . |
| 2 | If only it had come a few years earlier . |
| 3 | They all know that the Bill has been brought to the House in this form only because of the catastrophe of what happened on the Bills that were guillotined a few years ago — the poll tax Bills . |
| 4 | And he had the article written a few years ago about the missing Tsarist treasures . |
| 5 | ‘ He only found out what he 'd missed a few years ago when some German came in asking questions . |
| 6 | Frederick II himself had argued a few years earlier that ‘ useful hard-working people should be guarded as the apple of one 's eye , and in wartime recruits should be levied in one 's own country only when the bitterest necessity compels ’ . |
| 7 | Last year he was invited to hold an exhibition of his work at Urbino , in central Italy , at the house once owned by the Renaissance painter Raphael , which he had visited a few years before . |
| 8 | During such a study , a serendipitous observation was made a few years ago in our laboratory at Bangalore . |
| 9 | I was put in touch with a local historian who thought that the stone was possibly a Roman altar stone and said that it had been discovered set into the wall of the church when renovations were made a few years ago . |
| 10 | A similar suggestion was made a few years later by the French scientist the Marquis de Laplace , apparently independently of Michell . |
| 11 | Science had made enormous progress since Jonson 's day ; the Royal Society had been founded a few years before ; a virtuoso was not the same thing as an alchemist . |
| 12 | This grew while the city docks declined and finally were closed a few years ago . |
| 13 | I have had a few years in which to practise cooking and , somewhat immodestly , I think this cake recipe could be classed as excellent . |
| 14 | but I 've had a few years out |
| 15 | The extent to which the courts could become involved in the politics of such disputes had been shown a few years earlier when Lord Cameron presided over an enquiry into a dispute on London building sites . |
| 16 | The old watermill was demolished a few years ago , but was active until 1960 . |
| 17 | Coming as I did directly from higher education , I had expected to be treated as an adult and be allowed to explore my own educational needs during my three year RGN training , undertaken a few years ago . |
| 18 | When the idea of ‘ set-aside ’ was first mooted a few years ago , the hostility reached almost hysterical proportions . |
| 19 | He said he 'd played a few years before but was very out of practice |
| 20 | It was sounded a few years ago by Helen Gardner in In Defence of the Imagination , by the contributors to Laurence Lerner 's Reconstructing Literature , and in America by Gerald Graff 's Literature Against Itself ( Graff 's position has shifted somewhat in his more recent Professing Literature ) . |
| 21 | A term which certainly I , would n't have understood a few years ago . |
| 22 | Why was the lignite option given such short shrift by NIE when it was raised a few years ago ? |
| 23 | Moreover , CD-ROMs , the media the Data Discman plays , while hardly universally established , are by no means the radical innovation they would have seemed a few years ago . |
| 24 | Well I think an awful lot of people think of Oxfam and think of the shops , er and the shops have been terribly important to us for such a long time , but we 've found a few years ago that er people who , er were asked said that they would give money to Oxfam , but that they were n't necessarily always asked . |
| 25 | For many years it lay ignored in store , but was restored a few years ago ; its lack of finish is particularly significant . |
| 26 | Advertising is such a complicated business that you may be able to assimilate it better if you have spent a few years " knocking-around " — travelling perhaps , or working in a shop or doing different kinds of jobs . |
| 27 | Having spent a few years in both camps the matter was resolved in 1981 when Stoddards and Templetons were merged . |
| 28 | I just wondered if someone who had spent a few years in medical school might take a job away from the field … just for a summer . |
| 29 | The idea of light coming only in packets , called quanta , had been introduced a few years earlier by the German physicist Max Planck . |
| 30 | That was followed a few years later by the Meadows situation in Dallas , Texas , where Alger Meadows had bought from two travelling Frenchmen a whole collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works which were all fakes . |