Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [verb] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sainsbury 's own-label champagne I bought two years ago tastes even better now , developing greater fullness and depth of flavour without losing its keen edge or sparkling personality . |
| 2 | In fact , I arrived at a look I liked fifteen years ago and I have hardly changed it since then . |
| 3 | ‘ The innocence I saw five years ago is gone , ’ he said calmly , ‘ and one day you 're going to tell me how it happened . |
| 4 | ‘ Every branch of literature , reading , orthography , recitation , grammar and composition together with British history forms the prominent part of the system ; while the entire curriculum of study which occupies six years embraces the Latin , Greek , French , Russian and German languages , history , geography , physiology , chemistry , natural philosophy , zoology , botany , algebra , geometry , drawing and painting , fencing , gymnastics and military drill . |
| 5 | The rest is history , but one which records her pivotal work with the Ordinary Life initiative more than ten years ago , from which so much else has flowed ; working with Maureen Oswin on bereavement which culminated two years ago in the latter 's Am I Allowed to Cry ? , helping to get the Campaign for Mentally Handicapped People ( now Values into Action ) off the ground ; respite care ; and the initiative to get children out of long-stay hospitals . |
| 6 | Freda Gray was a pioneer who spent 40 years teaching and working with mentally handicapped young people , many of whom had been abandoned by society . |
| 7 | Brian Chievely Phillips , M.C. , who has died aged 76 , was a well-known and popular figure on the Kentish sporting scene and beyond , a robust striker of the cricket ball and lethal coverpoint , a good enough lawn tennis player to win the Kent singles title in 1948 and , most notably , for many years a leading squash exponent who played seven years for England , in 1948 as captain , and over 20 years for Kent . |
| 8 | Wu himself spent 19 years incarcerated ( for expressing ‘ counter-revolutionary ’ opinion ) , beaten , tortured and starved before going to the United States as a visiting professor . |
| 9 | Bonemeal is a good base which lasts several years , and can be spread at the rate of about 180–240 g per sq m ( 6–8 oz per sq yd ) , and garden compost into which wood ashes have been mixed is particularly helpful on such soils . |
| 10 | Visitors to Westminster Hall are amazed at Warren Hastings ' ability to survive a case which lasted seven years . |
| 11 | A lady I knew many years ago designed knitted suits and so on at the drop of a hat . |
| 12 | Her achievements are detailed in a section of the Good Health exhibition at the Dorman Museum which charts 100 years of health care in Middlesbrough . |
| 13 | As one of the team writing of the new catechism , Bishop David was in great demand to comment on the work which began some years ago . |
| 14 | He 's handsome , he 's fit , he 's a self-made millionaire and he 's the strident enigma who spent five years dragging Glasgow Rangers into the twentieth century . |
| 15 | The Protestants are scarcely measurable and the Catholics ( 3pc ) amount to only a quarter of the proportion who went 20 years ago . |
| 16 | Memory loss by the state Erlend Clouston reports on the difficulty people like Debbie Finni have in obtaining treatment for brain disorders like the amnesia she suffered four years ago . |
| 17 | CONGRATULATIONS to electrician who completed 25 years service on . |
| 18 | ERNIE MARTIN , fund raiser for the Dawn Craggs Meningitis Appeal fund launched in memory of the Darlington 16-year-old who died six years ago . |
| 19 | It was stated that the 20-month-old child he killed twelve years earlier was a named woman 's ‘ illegitimate son ’ . |
| 20 | Achieving a personal style became his ultimate photographic ambition , and under the influence of Josef Herman , a Polish photographer who spent many years in Wales documenting the lives of the coal miners , he paid his first visit to The National Gallery , where he gazed at the Old Masters and eventually formed what he called ‘ a concept of total image ’ . |
| 21 | But I do n't want to forget him , it 's not you forget it save your own life , you see er Irene one Wales , er she 's Greek , she 's only a young woman , she lost her husband I think two years ago and she 's already , cos you needs , delicate and people , people keep on thinking that you , you , you do n't want nobody then , you land in a mental home or stroke or , or something |
| 22 | In 1914 an offer from Australia took Lewis and his trainer , Alec ‘ Zalig ’ Goodman , to Sydney and five matches in three months , from where they sailed to the USA on business which lasted five years . |
| 23 | Germany 's bishops were in exile when Bismarck , in 1879 , began to consider a restoration of relations with the Papacy , a process which took several years ( see also below , p. 220 ) . |
| 24 | Thus commenced a quest for salvation which lasted six years and in which he was often in a state of great depression . |
| 25 | Additional information about examination results at age 16 is being added to the existing data-base which covers four years of junior schooling . |
| 26 | Edvard Radzinsky — an author who spent 25 years researching the Tsar 's life — says : ‘ There is also a huge nostalgia for the monarchy . |
| 27 | About , for example , the internal problems in what was the Soviet Union , a story we began some years ago , but are now in danger of leaving hanging in the air . |
| 28 | Depends on how long you 've known each other I mean fifteen years and you 've only just ! |
| 29 | And the bullets in the gun in the watch-tower above , they 're real … and the cold , and the sentence of the court which has fourteen years to run , and the worst luck that the Consul had ever heard of … they 're real . |
| 30 | In the two I 've just mentioned you will find a character who lives many years without the benefit of some vital knowledge , something they really needed to know . |