Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | One passage , when Edward was a scholar at Battersea Grammar School , sums up the general atmosphere of 61 Shelgate Road , as the poet recalled it twenty years later : |
| 2 | The job search took him seven years , and by that time he was ripe for retirement . |
| 3 | The allied word ‘ antibiotic , reached the English language when the botanist Marshall Hall used it 10 years later . |
| 4 | One of my assets in journalism , as Fred Workman told me some years later , was the habit of creating stories and features by developing an idea and then taking the necessary steps to work it into an acceptable feature . |
| 5 | I 'd spent most of it with the other two , one bad and the other indifferent , now I 'd come across a good one and fate gave us four years together , that 's all . |
| 6 | I got a bottle of gin a bloke bought me three years ago . |
| 7 | William Golding 's Lord of the Flies reminded us some years ago that children are far from immune to the virus of cruelty and irrationality that is latent in all human beings . |
| 8 | The defending lawyer told magistrate Terence Maher that Long , 48 , turned to the bottle after his wife divorced him three years ago . |
| 9 | I , I , a hairdresser told me that years ago Elaine . |
| 10 | Of the twins , one contracted the condition when 12 years old while the other developed it 36 years later . |
| 11 | The house sank into a gently decayed condition when a local architect bought it four years ago . |
| 12 | Of course now they 're recalling the fact that Tweed 's wife left him several years ago for a Greek shipping magnate , that he has n't had a lot to do with women since … ’ |
| 13 | Do you know one or two of my friends castigated me two years ago for taking food to somebody who was sleeping in the gardens . |
| 14 | The doctors gave him two years to live . |
| 15 | When he was aged eleven , doctors gave him ten years to live . |
| 16 | The Windorah had been a small family hotel before Jenkins bought it seven years earlier . |
| 17 | Baldwin confirmed it twenty years later , when he wrote to Tom Jones front the depths of his retirement : ‘ I spent a lot of my holiday in 1923 walking in the hills around Aix and thought it all out by myself . |
| 18 | Three different horses won it four years running . |
| 19 | The ancient Chinese invented it 2,000 years ago as a way to pass instructions down the line and information up to the top . |
| 20 | The Prince missed it two years ago with the same back trouble . |
| 21 | Former policeman Grant , a sociology student when Julie met him six years ago , stays at home , looks after Maisie and keeps house . |
| 22 | The Court of Appeal made it nine years . |
| 23 | Leeds bought him 2 years ago I think … although I may be wrong — he was nt on schoolboy forms or anything . |