Example sentences of "[adj] year [adv] have [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This place , which 30 years ago had the fastest-growing economy in democratic Europe , is now an economic failure . |
| 2 | ‘ Anti-depressant pills a few years earlier had a disastrous effect on me : I was allergic to them . |
| 3 | Not so Mark James , who 10 years ago had The Open in his sights , only to tail off . |
| 4 | The advertising vice-president who stays late every night working on next week 's layouts but who also has to begin making contingency plans for the expected launch of two new local advertising media campaigns three years hence has a responsibility time span of three years . |
| 5 | The Commissioners enquired how and why would the pension be paid , and the Governors explained that Hamilton was now 67 , had been Headmaster for 27 years , and although not then in bad health had two or three years previously had a serious illness , and was not considered equal to the work . |
| 6 | The patient with a duodenal ulcr at the end of treatment ( man aged 31 years ) had positive urease , histology , and bacteriology for H pylori when retested and a woman aged 66 years still had a positive urease test after treatment . |
| 7 | Not since Greta all those years ago had a woman seemed to him so desirable . |
| 8 | I had been having trouble with arthritis for years , and nine years ago had a hip replacement . |
| 9 | In addition to this the men who were passing through the camp after the first year often had a different view of the war from those who had been there since before the fall of France . |
| 10 | ‘ Thirty years ago having a child outside marriage was n't considered to be the accepted thing . |