Example sentences of "[adj] year [adv] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He compared it with the scheme 30 years ago when Britain built tall chimneys to disperse pollution over a wide area . |
| 2 | Medved is guilty of some distinctly muddled thinking on pop , which is less political than it was 20 or 30 years ago when Alice Cooper sang about school being blown to pieces . |
| 3 | She was twenty-eight , I discovered ; her parents ( mother French , father English ) had separated some years previously when Pater had done a runner with a bimbo ; and she toiled as a handmaiden of the arts , rendering fresh the faded pigments of yesteryear . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Some years ago when St John 's Market was being restored after a fire , the market traders were given temporary sites underneath St George 's car park on the large paved area near the Lime Street underpass . |
| 6 | It was certainly done most effectively for one culture some years ago when Romeo and Juliet were transposed into the idiom of youth group clash in modern New York in West Side Story ( p. 95 ) . |
| 7 | It was only some years later that Jacques learned of the Board 's initiatives and that it had failed because members of the county council had been deeply suspicious of the radicalism associated with liberal adult education in the industrial areas of the county . |
| 8 | The Tetris theme has been around for some years now but shareware authors have taken the original idea to new heights . |
| 9 | It has been known for some years now that records of the electricity activity of the brain during sleep — by electrodes attached to the scalp , face and neck — confirm that different types of sleep exist . |
| 10 | The extraordinary background of this veiled beauty is at first revealed only in hints and large generalisations as Ayesha woos Leo Vincey as her reincarnated lover , and the story was not extended significantly until thirty-six years later when Rider Haggard indulged his passion for Ancient Egypt and for the occult by giving Ayesha a family and a local habitation in Wisdom 's Daughter . |
| 11 | David Bowie appeared there 2 years ago and Michael Jackson has also performed . |
| 12 | Or the 4–0 AWAY win 2 years ago when Speed scored THOSE goals , and Ruddock got sent off : - ) ) ) ) |
| 13 | All the events recorded in this book took place more than forty years ago and memories are apt to play tricks on us , so it may be that I have made a few mistakes . |
| 14 | It was not until forty years later that Betty changed jobs when a new drying machine was introduced changing the system . |
| 15 | From 1859 caves became exciting to geologists , as they had been forty years earlier when Buckland looked for evidence of the Deluge . |
| 16 | Even these statistics palled to insignificance a few years later when cocaine joined with heroin in the hard drugs scene and the high value of low bulk concentrated drugs made it so profitable and easy to smuggle . |
| 17 | It was only a few years ago that cheques and cash were the only means of payment available . |
| 18 | Oh Mrs , she said she 'd be , she would do them but she 'd felt absolutely terrified at the prospect because she had a a few years ago cos Gerry never had trousers with turn ups . |
| 19 | The extent to which the courts could become involved in the politics of such disputes had been shown a few years earlier when Lord Cameron presided over an enquiry into a dispute on London building sites . |
| 20 | Their secrets return to haunt them 12 years later when bodies are discovered buried in the grounds . |
| 21 | Will my right hon. Friend confirm that this year more than £1 billion is being spent by the public sector on energy efficiency ? |
| 22 | On average , women live six years longer than men , and men tend to marry younger women . |
| 23 | This was the first year since he became leader of his party six years ago that Mr Kinnock was relieved of his preoccupation with an ungovernable party and was able to turn his attention properly to the government of the country . |
| 24 | Six years later when Henry Ford 's son , Edsel , cut the first sod of earth on site with a silver spade , the site looked barely more promising . |
| 25 | They had fought off a spirited £1.1bn bid from the BTR conglomerate six years earlier when chairman Sir Antony Pilkington and his team argued the key lay in dedicated research and investment . |
| 26 | It was 10 years ago that Dr Roubik first discovered that some stingless bees are exclusively carrion-eaters , based on a complete absence of pollen in the nest , and the absence of the usual pollen baskets on the hind legs of workers . |
| 27 | Gemma , their sole sister , was born 10 years ago when Olwyn Linighan one of 11 was 43 and her husband 46 . |
| 28 | Alan explains : ‘ I got my first chance of management about 10 years ago when Ronnie McFall was in charge at the Oval . |
| 29 | Air traffic has doubled in the last 10 years so that Singapore is now served by 57 airlines , linking it to 110 cities in 54 countries . |
| 30 | She supposed she ought to be thankful that she and Holly had spent several contented years together before things had become prickly . |