Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] years ago [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only three years ago women returners were the flavour of the month . |
| 2 | Not so many years ago parents would have thought nothing of their children walking two or three miles to school in the morning and back again in the afternoon . |
| 3 | And so five years ago Lesley , one of the seven children of Colin and Lillian Harrison , joined the Merseyside force . |
| 4 | Yet geographical remoteness had earlier assisted the minimizing of contacts even with neighbouring states , and only 150 years ago Japan was one of the most isolated countries in the world . |
| 5 | up until just six years ago crews unhappy about the weight of their cox would bring them down into the brewery for a spot of heavy labour — shovelling mash , to get their weight down . |
| 6 | Just three years ago desktop publishing was virtually unheard of , today we are as familiar with it as with the spreadsheet , the word processor or the data base . |
| 7 | Exactly four years ago Jeanette 's husband Tim died of cancer . |
| 8 | Just two years ago President Bush was the most popular American president ever . |
| 9 | Nearly fifty years ago Peggy Lucas walked out across an airfield to fly a Spitfire for the first time … now she 's about to come bang up to date with a helicopter . |
| 10 | Nearly fifty years ago Peggy Lucas walked out across an airfield to fly a Spitfire for the first time … now she 's about to come bang up to date with a helicopter . |
| 11 | Since the final stretch through Oxfordshire opened nearly three years ago motoring organisations and the police have been campaigning for service areas to be built so that drivers can take a break . |
| 12 | And of course his own , then , nearly ten years ago Virgin bought its first plane . |
| 13 | In short , it is that it offers a way of by-passing ‘ the awkward corner ’ , Nearly twenty years ago Professor Joan Robinson observed that the predictable consequences of the attainment of near-full employment must , if institutions and attitudes did not accommodate themselves to the new circumstances , be so far to strengthen the power of the trade unions as to prompt a vicious spiral of wages and prices ; and that it would become chronic . |
| 14 | Nearly 200 years ago Darlington was awash with drink . |
| 15 | Again , about 100 years ago chimpanzees were fed on beer and sausages and more recently made to have tea parties to amuse the visitors . |
| 16 | About 100 years ago Robert Koch was confronted by a similar situation , albeit at the microscopic rather than the ultramicroscopic level . |
| 17 | He says about three years ago Lord Rothschild asked us to restore the rock garden at Waddeson which had been overgrown since the 1920s . |
| 18 | About three years ago Radio Shropshire broadcast a series covering four railways that have ceased to operate . |
| 19 | About 25 years ago Margaret 's two-year-old daughter , Dawn , was killed in a road accident outside the family 's former home in Middlewich . |
| 20 | About twenty years ago department stores in Tokyo started to make parts of their buildings into exhibition spaces and called them museums . |
| 21 | About two years ago Autobacs cleaned up its oily-rag image . |
| 22 | For one thing , you have to realise that even three years ago Stephen was rather a different person — to look at , I mean , and to be with , and all that . |
| 23 | The uncertainty is illustrated by the fact that even five years ago Vodafone profits were forecast at around £40million by the end of the decade . |
| 24 | He has to keep these kids in the team because there 's nothing better to replace them — yet even five years ago Jamie Redknapp and Don Hutchison would have been back in the reserves , getting the time they need . |
| 25 | What was written almost 30 years ago remains substantially true : ‘ Countries including many language and culture groups , like most African and Asian ones , have not split up , and those taking in only part of a single language group , like the Arab ones and North Africa , have … not united . ’ |
| 26 | And almost 10 years ago Atcheson was arrested and charged on the evidence of loyalist supergrass James Crockard . |
| 27 | Almost ninety years ago Stevenson 's romantic adventures were put in their place by a reviewer in the London Daily Chronicle who remarked that ‘ great literature can not be composed from narratives of perilous adventures ’ . |
| 28 | Five years ago the prospect of music biz power-brokers scraping over the rights to the Reading Festival would have been laughable , but then five years ago Reading was laughable , light years removed from the vital , fun , rather homely popstravaganza it is today . |
| 29 | Around two years ago Djaimin decided to follow the traditional DJ trail and embark on a recording career , starting with remixes . |
| 30 | Over fifty years ago Dorothy George contested the views of writers like the Webbs and the Hammonds that 1799 and 1800 amounted to " the most unqualified surrender of the State to the discretion of a class in the History of England " . |