Example sentences of "[noun] a few years ago " in BNC.
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| 1 | He got me a ring a few years ago . |
| 2 | The media commentator Michael Leapman , writing in the Independent on Sunday , observed that ‘ she has not usually done well in other roles … her Panorama programme on TV violence a few years ago was not judged a critical success . ’ |
| 3 | Havel 's friend and co-resister Ludvik Vaculik describes a birthday party for ‘ our own particular Wenceslas ’ ( Vaclav is the Czech version ) in one of its restaurants a few years ago , on one of those occasions when they were wrily living ‘ as if ’ in freedom ; all those present remember some high or low point of their lives happening somewhere in the Lucerna Palace . |
| 4 | He has had the great distinction of having to deny past intelligence experience — when the former Cabinet Secretary made his allegation a few years ago . |
| 5 | One Steiff teddy fetched £55,000 at auction a few years ago , although Stonegate 's reproduction of it is somewhat more sensible priced at £175 . |
| 6 | ‘ The enterprise of the Leeds City management in securing Speirs would have staggered those responsible for the club a few years ago , ’ observed the Yorkshire Evening Post . |
| 7 | After her move from New York to New Mexico a few years ago , Rothenberg became neighbours with another aritst who has strongly influenced her career , Agnes martin . |
| 8 | These had followed a similarly successful event held in Brussels a few years ago for members in Belgium . |
| 9 | Pioneering research a few years ago by American chemists Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Ponns , was dismissed as a false dawn and ‘ con fusion ’ . |
| 10 | yeah , that , that 's how I bought it in Sainsburys a few years ago |
| 11 | That 's why all cars a few years ago started looking the same , now they all look sort of like this . |
| 12 | Jan Turner says that he helped organise an evererst marathon a few years ago and one sad thing about that was the local runners could not afford the right equipment or did n't have the money to tarin … so he 's here to help them |
| 13 | Officials said that , had Labour won , there would have been a period of uncertainty , although Mr Kinnock 's policies had changed and he was no longer the frightening prospect he seemed to the US administration a few years ago . |
| 14 | The problems faced by Britain 's loudspeaker industry a few years ago , when political upheavals in Zaire disrupted cobalt supplies , highlight the crucial nature of the strategic metals . |
| 15 | In France , Jean-Pierre Chevènement , who resigned as defence minister shortly after the outbreak of war , accused the United States a few years ago of ‘ the organised cretinisation of our people . ’ |
| 16 | The township got electric light a few years ago , yet for as long as anyone could remember power-station cooling stacks had blasted out steam day and night ; the power went to white Johannesburg a few miles down the road . |
| 17 | She had been , before her second marriage a few years ago to Mr Alderley , Baroness to Lord Switham , who owned all the land round about , with the exception of Merchiston Lodge and other hunting boxes in the vicinity belonging to various members of the haut ton . |
| 18 | Pioneering work a few years ago by Keith Waters at Middlesex Polytechnic experimented with a computer-generated version of Spitting Image . |
| 19 | I was given a cutting a few years ago by my sister and have subsequently passed on cuttings but have never known the proper name of it or much about it . |
| 20 | What is the true story of the Japanese businessman who returned a stolen Impressionist painting to France and was decorated for it by President Mitterrand on the occasion of the reopening of the Louvre a few years ago ? |
| 21 | Never done , any , any manual work , up , up until when he started packing in the shoes a few years ago . |
| 22 | I am sure members will be aware speed speedway received financial assistance from the Council a few years ago when they ran into difficulties . |
| 23 | Submerged plants rarely attract attention except when they are a nuisance as in the rotting infestation of sea lettuce a few years ago that produced enough hydrogen sulphide gas to discolour housepaint and tarnish silverware in the unfortunate town of Deale , in Maryland . |
| 24 | Ferrasse 's low-key reaction to the incident contrasted vividly with his robust treatment of Jean-Pierre Garuet after the Lourdes prop was sent off in an international against Ireland a few years ago . |
| 25 | I recall going into such a shop a few years ago to replace my survival bag . |
| 26 | ‘ You got together again in Sydney a few years ago , I 'm told , and here you are a third time . |
| 27 | They went into a quiet period a few years ago it was very quiet erm but er yes they 're they 're going strong . |
| 28 | Trainer Ian Duncan , whose stable is on the shores of Lough Neagh , was also scoring his first win in this historic race although he had gone close when Camlin River was beaten by Phillipinetown Lad a few years ago . |
| 29 | When I visited the Edison National Historic Site a few years ago , my guide told me that the full resources of his employer ( the United States Government ) had failed to break one ; but to find out exactly what was inside the quarter-inch slab , they had borrowed a diamond saw and cut one in half . |
| 30 | Thus , if we know of an author who wrote a very good book or article a few years ago on our chosen topic we can look up his name to see if anyone has been citing that article recently . |