Example sentences of "[num] years [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To think that not less than 30 years ago we still had a fiver worthy of the 18th century and felt no need to supplement the revenue by the constant issuing of new postage stamps . |
| 2 | Novae are now believed to be caused by gas spilling from one star to another in a close double-star system , but 30 years ago they were a complete mystery ; only two dozen had been spotted in time for astronomers to study them while they were still erupting . |
| 3 | John Butterworth joined the company as an apprentice 30 years ago he says Westcott has changed beyond all recognition . |
| 4 | Leonard Coote , President has a record of service to the Association extending back in excess of 30 years when he was first elected a branch representative . |
| 5 | He banged it into us very successfully , but singing Mozart 's Requiem 30 years later I found I knew most of it by heart . |
| 6 | Forty-five years later he 's returned to his roots , with a retrospective display of his favourite surrealist paintings . |
| 7 | Leeds bought him 2 years ago I think … although I may be wrong — he was nt on schoolboy forms or anything . |
| 8 | Forty years ago they were a bit … ’ |
| 9 | Forty years ago they would have all been half-colonels in Intelligence . |
| 10 | Thirty and Forty years ago they played to packed houses up and down the country … now they 're doing it again |
| 11 | " Forty years ago we would n't have said that ! " |
| 12 | Forty years ago he 'd have kicked his cousin under the table . |
| 13 | I was erm , asked to er speak on behalf of the locals , as it were , and er so er what can I say but welcome back , welcome back to the where there 's nearly forty years ago you were and erm we do welcome you back here again today . |
| 14 | Forty years ago I saw a friend off at Paddington , bound for Totnes . |
| 15 | that Jackie will tell you the same , I told her mother anything from thirty to forty years ago I said , that do n't matter some toss what political power they get in power you 'll find the unions will run the country |
| 16 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon had been a major force in English religious life for almost forty years when he died in 1892 . |
| 17 | Forty years later we are in a stage of chaos and doubt . |
| 18 | Jack appreciated that thirty or forty years later he might never have been born . |
| 19 | Forty years later it rings true . |
| 20 | Forty years later I am still sure I was right . |
| 21 | Forty years later she |
| 22 | Suddenly , 12 years ago I ended up the only one left , ’ said David . |
| 23 | About 12 years ago I was there for four months , and it was 16 weeks too long . |
| 24 | ‘ When I had my first heart attack 12 years ago I was terrified . |
| 25 | Is there any reason why the ‘ decibel ’ rating of an amp ca n't be given by the manufacturer and/or yourselves ? ( 3–4 years ago I was in a band where we always had a decibal reading at the soundcheck . |
| 26 | In fact he had only been away from the town for one period of six years when he was at university in Aberdeen . |
| 27 | Ed Stafford , 37 , had bee married for six years when he divorced in 1982 . |
| 28 | In Australia six years ago they released a squealingly plump piglet onto the field , with the legend ‘ Eddie ’ daubed on its side . |
| 29 | Six years ago they attacked my uncle 's prahu , killing him and everyone on board for their cargo . " |
| 30 | Five years six years ago they introduced the postal wallets because they found that estate agents were sending the very expensive glossy brochures out in the post . |