Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] a [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | We picked these up on a visit we made to the island of Haiti a few years ago , and they 've become part of our Christmas celebrations ever since . ’ |
| 2 | Ferrasse 's low-key reaction to the incident contrasted vividly with his robust treatment of Jean-Pierre Garuet after the Lourdes prop was sent off in an international against Ireland a few years ago . |
| 3 | She 'd enjoyed a brief dalliance with Lorimer a few years earlier , after she 'd met him at one of the receptions Wakelate had attended , incognito , on business . |
| 4 | Mr Hill won £6,000 with Littlewoods a few years ago . |
| 5 | Television 's ‘ Hammer ’ found himself in the slammer when he tried smuggling cocaine into Britain a few years back . |
| 6 | Graham Greene , in Panama a few years earlier , noticed a similar style of popular consultation and accessibility being used by General Omar Torrijos and his government , and suggested that the country " had evolved a very different form of democracy " from Britain 's , but one with its own validity . |
| 7 | A problem graphically illustrated in Swindon a few years |
| 8 | This show is a kind of extension of club events I did in LA a few years back which used computer graphics , big projections , dance music and crowds . |
| 9 | These had followed a similarly successful event held in Brussels a few years ago for members in Belgium . |
| 10 | yeah , that , that 's how I bought it in Sainsburys a few years ago |
| 11 | It did this in Tuscany a few years back , when Chianti was in the doldrums . |
| 12 | And a strike in nickel mines in Canada a few years ago affected Britain seriously because they were by far the country 's biggest supplier . |
| 13 | Worst of all , there is no reference to the work on physiological measures of intelligence , begun by J. P. Ertl in Canada a dozen years ago . |
| 14 | ‘ You got together again in Sydney a few years ago , I 'm told , and here you are a third time . |
| 15 | ‘ I remember now , he 's the gipsy child Mr Earnshaw brought home from Liverpool a few years ago . ’ |
| 16 | I was in China a few years ago and was fascinated to discover there was one bicycle for every thirty Chinese , and you see they 're not going to be distributed very equally are they ? |
| 17 | That Aethelbald 's position in southern England at the end of his reign was still a dominant one is suggested by the description of him in the record of this grant as ‘ king not only of the Mercians but also of the surrounding peoples ’ , but it may be that a diminution of power in the early 750s played a part in exposing him to assassination in Mercia a few years later . |
| 18 | At 16 he emigrated to Canada and began work in a small shipyard in Quebec , owned by his uncle , John Black , who had gone there from Irvine a few years earlier . |
| 19 | At a business seminar in Australia a few years ago , Kerry Packer described his method of obtaining loans : ‘ Make sure you get the bankers to come to your office . |
| 20 | He was one of the three walking brothers who had stopped their walk to admire the May-Day dance in Marlott a few years before . |
| 21 | Well , I , I , I mean I 've been to one , to a meeting , they had in Manchester a few years ago , Irene 's been to some . |
| 22 | ‘ During the three months I was in America a few years ago , it would happen again and again . |
| 23 | In fact I sat next to her at a lunch in Abingdon a few years ago , and erm this image one got of her of not being a listener is totally untrue erm every time she turned to me it was to listen to what I had to say . |
| 24 | He talked about the bad publicity for the Russians flowing from an incident in London a few years before , when the Bulgarian secret service murdered a political exile in London . |
| 25 | I had made the journey from Aix a dozen years earlier . |
| 26 | United Motors had already built a component plant in Dublin a few years before , at the specific request of the Chairman , but it had never operated profitably . |
| 27 | He came to Baldersdale a hundred years or so ago to help construct the Hury Reservoir — I think Low Birk Hatt was built around the same time . |
| 28 | In the very next group I chanced upon that guy , you know the one , he used to read the weather on TVS a few years back , grey hair , quite tall , you know , John something . |
| 29 | Erle returned to Dorset a few years later to become a ship-money refuser and to head the poll in the county election of March 1640 ; but he resigned the seat to George Digby , second Earl of Bristol [ q.v. ] , and served for Lyme Regis in the Short Parliament , to which he reported on innovations in religion . |
| 30 | At a Symposium organized to pay tribute to Darwin a hundred years after his death , it is perhaps permitted to expand on one tiny fragment of ecological research that may truly be said to have been directly stimulated by Darwin 's own writings , in particular by the paragraph quoted as heading to this paper . |