Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [art] [det] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a survey on shopping which I made a few years ago one of my student interviewers was questioning an old lady about the grocer 's shop she used . |
| 2 | They have a very special significance , and how I wish I had known how to press flowers when I was given my first red roses by my husband , but unfortunately I learnt a few years too late ! |
| 3 | I spent a few years on The Scotsman and then to Thomson House to join The Guardian soon after it dropped the ‘ Manchester ’ from its title and started printing in London . |
| 4 | I remember a few years ago a lady bought a jumper to the knitting club , displaying it proudly and saying : ‘ it 's just some out of the washing machine ’ . |
| 5 | erm I remember a few years ago when there was a great panicky shutting down of teachers ' training colleges . |
| 6 | ‘ Oh , I think a few years younger . ’ |
| 7 | And I remind this council of something I said a few years ago of an incident , incident concerning the Atherstone hunt in my ward where the hounds attacked the dogs of , a couple of dogs of a constituent of mine in his back garden totally uncontrolled , they were running amuck right across land in Ellistown this is nothing the hunt could do nothing the hunt tried to do they were too busy off still dashing ahead chasing the fox or what they thought was a fox . |
| 8 | To get proof that these are not ‘ our ’ birds is not easy , but is illustrated by an incident which happened a few years ago . |
| 9 | you got a few years back . |
| 10 | On leaving school , she spent a few years working in the British Transport Police . |
| 11 | Until she died a few years ago , a wise woman lived there , a strange being who wore outlandish brightly-coloured clothes and had feathers in her hair . |
| 12 | CATHERINE No , she died a few years ago . |
| 13 | One of the most poignant studies is of a graceful ten-year-old girl who drowned a few years later in a Mississippi boating accident . |
| 14 | Between 1019 and 1023 , Champagne fell into the hands of Eudes II , the count of Blois and Chartres , who had a few years earlier annexed Sancerre . |
| 15 | Surplus component boards etc. are most useful if they contain expensive semiconductors , and are probably something that are best left to those who have a few years experience of electronics behind them . |
| 16 | Anderson 's heart was not in these changes , and she retired the same year . |
| 17 | One of the wonder boys we sold a few years back was Ian Snodin , to Everton . |
| 18 | Well we did a few years ago . |
| 19 | There followed a few years as a ‘ journeyman ’ caddy , industrious years but without great success . |
| 20 | There followed a few years when the situation looked bright . |
| 21 | There followed a few years of growth with turnover increasing from £11 million 1982 to £18 million in 1987 . |
| 22 | Properties they say a few years ago are down by 25 to 30% , that with lower mortgage rates gives them a tremendous boost . |
| 23 | He has a few years on me — maybe ten — and sometimes he treats me like the son he never had . |
| 24 | He says a few years ago I asked my father 's test pilot Geoffrey Quill about this business of the seagulls and he told me your father was a hard-headed engineer and if he was stuck for inspiration he would never have wasted time watching bloody seagulls ! |
| 25 | If anyone deserved a few years in an open prison it was Beamish . |
| 26 | Broderick has faced more of a problem , since it seemed a few years back that he had stopped ageing . |
| 27 | Cheyney passed from Sandhurst into the army , buying a commission in a regiment which was ordered to India , where he spent a few years in inactive service . |
| 28 | It opens a few years after the final English conquest of Wales in 1282/3 ; it closes with the outbreak of the last great Welsh revolt . |
| 29 | The cost of educating our children is below the national recoupment figure , and that I think is good , right and proper and it reflects the many years of excellent Conservative administration that Oxfordshire has enjoyed . |
| 30 | ‘ Phoenixa ’ is EMI 's culling from the old Pye Nixa catalogue , which it acquired a few years ago and launched with a contribution from each record sold to the environmental music charity ‘ Music for the World ’ . |