Example sentences of "[noun] in [noun] [det] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a vogue for bidets in California some years ago but he thinks they are primarily symbolic as jacuzzis have become . |
| 2 | I met Garret Lysaght in Paris many years later . |
| 3 | I was most interested in your article on water divining ( November 1990 ) because I was asked to practise this art in Africa many years ago . |
| 4 | had in fact performed Bach 's ‘ Double Violin Concerto ’ with him in a concert in America several years before . |
| 5 | For him it 's like déjá vu , having rescued his son from the Moonies in Canada several years ago . |
| 6 | The politics of party , in other words , was replaced by a politics of personality in California many years before such trends became widespread elsewhere . |
| 7 | Yes I mean er when I s er you know when I was on the Q E Two and was chatting with a fella and er he , they 'd been , he 'd obviously been cruising before and was on this cruise and er they were going on the er another Cunard ship a few months later , and it turned out that he was a hotelier who 'd bought a hotel in Swanage some years ago , I think he 'd had about seven bedrooms when he bought it and he gradually extended it , I forget how many he did tell me , and then he had a bit of a heart er attack and er his doctor told him to , you know , well if I were you I 'd just pack in your job which he did and that was about fifteen years ago he was I du n no if he was eighty or he was approaching eighty if he was n't and was in pretty good form , he was dancing , and er , you know , I mean there money 's no object . |
| 8 | The problem facing and other maltsters is that whisky production is cyclical and we have to forecast and adjust for trends in consumption many years ahead . |