Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] a [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Science had made enormous progress since Jonson 's day ; the Royal Society had been founded a few years before ; a virtuoso was not the same thing as an alchemist . |
| 3 | The idea of light coming only in packets , called quanta , had been introduced a few years earlier by the German physicist Max Planck . |
| 4 | She is opinionated , and can confidently predict that William Burroughs , whose books have me aching with boredom , will be read a hundred years from now . |
| 5 | It 'd been taken a few years earlier at a family Christmas party when we were playing Musical Chairs . |
| 6 | The building of the Henry Ford factory on the Marina had been started a few years before ; and Denis , whose regular walks to Blackrock — solitary now that his father was no longer there to accompany him took him past the site , had watched its growth from the first brick . |
| 7 | Well I think they 're helping us erm possibly if this system had been started a few years ago , then possibly flats complex , would n't have got the bad reputation it has today . |
| 8 | They all know that the Bill has been brought to the House in this form only because of the catastrophe of what happened on the Bills that were guillotined a few years ago — the poll tax Bills . |
| 9 | Although the large Gothic window of the chapel was replaced by a smaller one , and bay windows were added a few years later , it is still , in Pugin 's own words , ‘ the only modern building that is complete in every part in the ancient style ’ . |
| 10 | I was put in touch with a local historian who thought that the stone was possibly a Roman altar stone and said that it had been discovered set into the wall of the church when renovations were made a few years ago . |
| 11 | This grew while the city docks declined and finally were closed a few years ago . |
| 12 | Erm , and to look at the stories which are of a different time but are still relevant to our time and place , they have a , have a message for us , even though they were set a hundred years ago , they 've still got something to say us , so I think that 's an area we need to explore . |
| 13 | She was born when they had been married a few years . |
| 14 | no at the moment all my friends have , have been married a few years erm next time you come and er |
| 15 | Over ninety states have accepted the obligation not to acquire nuclear arms under the 1968 Non-Proliferation Treaty ; although this treaty has not prevented the detonation of a nuclear device by India and the covert acquisition of nuclear capacity also by Israel and South Africa , the total list of nuclear powers is relatively small , and perhaps less than may have been predicted a few years ago . |
| 16 | Black , because it had been burned a thousand years ago ; it still showed the shape of the face impressed upon it . |
| 17 | Ehm is a it is n't actually a a erm a new school it 's Birchwood High School it used to be Margaret Dane which has been established a few years but Birchwood just been started for a year erm it has is some information but obviously there have n't been any feedback from the school so I starts there . |
| 18 | During such a study , a serendipitous observation was made a few years ago in our laboratory at Bangalore . |
| 19 | A similar suggestion was made a few years later by the French scientist the Marquis de Laplace , apparently independently of Michell . |
| 20 | The old watermill was demolished a few years ago , but was active until 1960 . |
| 21 | They urged friends to join them and so the Society of St Peter Apostle was born a hundred years ago in France . |
| 22 | Why was the lignite option given such short shrift by NIE when it was raised a few years ago ? |
| 23 | It was sounded a few years ago by Helen Gardner in In Defence of the Imagination , by the contributors to Laurence Lerner 's Reconstructing Literature , and in America by Gerald Graff 's Literature Against Itself ( Graff 's position has shifted somewhat in his more recent Professing Literature ) . |
| 24 | For many years it lay ignored in store , but was restored a few years ago ; its lack of finish is particularly significant . |
| 25 | That was followed a few years later by the Meadows situation in Dallas , Texas , where Alger Meadows had bought from two travelling Frenchmen a whole collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works which were all fakes . |
| 26 | I was involved a few years ago in the in the Lance , the rescue er That the lance went ashore on Hoy and er the helicopter there took the casualties of the Lance and dropped |
| 27 | Around the church , cottages and the remains of the county 's largest motte-and-bailey castle are the three large fields , only parts of which have ever been enclosed , where the feudal system of agriculture was practised a thousand years ago . |
| 28 | You will remember that a decision was taken a few years ago that we would lay our track to the standard British gauge of 4′ 8½″ rather than to the Irish gauge of 5′ 3″ . |
| 29 | This sentiment was repeated a few years later by the Newsom Report in relation to average ability working-class adolescents . |
| 30 | This has been partly due to the new and attractive packages offered to depositors , and partly due to the increase in competition in the sector since the interest rate cartel was ended a few years ago . |