Example sentences of "years early " in BNC.
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| 1 | Responding to criticism from other political parties in his coalition government , Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti stressed that the two men , Mohammed Issa Abbas and Youssouf Ahmed Saad , had secured release about two years early as part of a general amnesty programme ; it was " fantasy " , he said , to suggest that their freeing only two weeks before the outbreak of hostilities in the Gulf was aimed at protecting Italy from terrorist attacks . |
| 2 | Weather is something that effects us all , so Charlie and her team will use the latest technology to bring 21st Century forecasting to your screen , 8 years early . |
| 3 | The plight of an Argentinian clerk , Perico Rodriguez , imprisoned and tortured because of his criticisms of the military government , was brought to Amnesty 's attention by an English couple who had previously befriended Rodriguez two years earlier when they were hitch-hiking across Argentina . |
| 4 | It 's not much use arriving somewhere at ten in the morning clutching the collected works under your arm and wishing you had a wig and been born thirty years earlier in order to play Lear — or for that matter the Duke of Gloucester . |
| 5 | This has a clear relationship with Pius XI 's teaching , eight years earlier on the same subject : ‘ the very fountainhead from which the State draws its life , namely , wedlock and the family ’ ( 1929 : 14 ) , and with the dispositions of the then current Code of Canon Law which had come into effect in 1917 : ‘ The marriage of baptized persons is governed not only by divine law but also by church law . |
| 6 | I had thought at the time , wrote Goldberg , turning the page , wiping his brow , taking a sip of orange juice from the glass on the desk beside him , dreaming for a moment of the cigarettes he had given up two years earlier , I had thought , he wrote , that an edited version of the text , with only those comments directly concerned with the Big Glass included , would serve you best . |
| 7 | Nothing much had happened in my life since the publication of my Carlo Fontana book nearly twenty years earlier ( though even that , as only three hundred copies were sold , was hardly a riot ) . |
| 8 | By this time , I was already leading a life which ten years earlier I would have assured you that I could never have tolerated . |
| 9 | It is therefore difficult for him to appreciate the general view of the Service , that , on his return … he must re-establish his professional standing , even though a few years earlier the Service had sent him to University because he had proved himself to be a good , practical policeman . |
| 10 | Unlike the Shildon display five years earlier , diesels and electrics were included . |
| 11 | A far cry from the £2 tray meal handed out on the first of the Scenic Land Cruise trains eight years earlier , in a decade of special-train running where sophistication got its chance — and left behind many ordinary folk for whom the railway ‘ excursion ’ is now but a fading memory . |
| 12 | This traced itself back to John Merchant , a Fleming given a permit almost 100 years earlier , in 1492 , to export 50 tuns of ‘ ale called berre ’ to the Low Countries . |
| 13 | Such a one may feel that Pound 's ‘ writing off ’ of England , his abandonment of her — physically in 1920 , in imagination some years earlier — was abundantly justified , to the extent indeed that it was not so much his justified rejection of her , as her unjustifiable rejection of him . |
| 14 | The vocabulary is different from the comments of fifty years earlier which wounded and infuriated Pound , and drove him out of England , but the sentiments are identical . |
| 15 | This woman was 37 years old , and she too had had a lumpectomy and radiotherapy four years earlier . |
| 16 | Mrs Merlin and her husband Christopher say radioactive contamination was behind their decision to sell the house , Mountain Ash , Ravenglass , six miles from Sellafield , which fetched only £35,000 — little more than it cost 11 years earlier . |
| 17 | She 'd come to Nepal with a back-pack three years earlier and ended up marrying the US embassy dentist . |
| 18 | He grew up in an age when the youth of the Netherlands were preoccupied with the tales of oppression and corruption in the colonial service revealed some 50 years earlier by the writings of ED Dekker ( writing as ‘ Multatuli ’ ) . |
| 19 | His words are as familiar to Soviet schoolchilden as Cromwell 's ‘ In the name of God , go ’ to the Long Parliament over 250 years earlier , is to us . |
| 20 | In 1989 the agreement concluded some years earlier with the Chinese government for the peaceful winding-up of the 1 50-year lease on Hong Kong suddenly seemed hard to defend . |
| 21 | If it had happened two years earlier , I could n't have coped . |
| 22 | Reading Rivers and Smith a couple of years earlier , Eliot had appreciated this to the full , as his relating contemporary life to Melanesian death in ‘ Marie Lloyd ’ shows . |
| 23 | Gide 's experience , elsewhere and seventy years earlier , was very different , but , as we shall see , he too experiences the desire of the other as finally about disenchantment . |
| 24 | But it was only in 1988 — 9 that the ratio ( excluding privatization receipts ) fell back to that of ten years earlier . |
| 25 | What was interesting about that was that at the time John Brown got into financial difficulties the banks and institutional shareholders took a tough but very constructive view that it was worth helping the company through a reconstruction rather than forcing it into liquidation , which had been an attitude prevalent some years earlier . |
| 26 | Ironically , five years earlier he had been asked by Eric Varley , the Labour Government 's Energy Secretary , to serve on the committee for overseeing the nationalisation of the company . |
| 27 | Two years earlier , on a more limited franchise , the first Senegalese deputy , Blaise Diagne , had been elected to the French National Assembly and had rapidly become a junior minister . |
| 28 | The last time the ‘ Tigers ’ patrolled these streets was exactly ten years earlier . |
| 29 | There followed such extravagant follies as Bonnie Prince Charlie ( 1948 ) and an Anna Karenina ( 1947 ) in which Vivien Leigh vainly tried to bring some of the same magic to the role as Greta Garbo had 12 years earlier . |
| 30 | Soon after came David Cork , an inventive inside-forward once with Arsenal and Huddersfield , and York 's Kevan Smith , who two years earlier had played with Coventry . |