Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [verb] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | A woman whose wedding ring was stolen eight years ago has got it back . |
| 2 | Not since the Jockey Club was founded 243 years ago has such radical racing reform been in the air and today is also the threshold of a new era which begins with Britain 's betting shops next Thursday . |
| 3 | The local support groups and befriending schemes that MIND was running two years ago are expanding all the time , and a new advocacy service to help people with mental health problems deal with lawyers , the courts , doctors , and other professionals is taking off . |
| 4 | Major restoration projects include the Cathedral of Our Lady whose exterior is now almost complete ; inside , the first phase of work on the nave and roof was completed some years ago . |
| 5 | There are 14 people in Documentation and the department was established seven years ago when the old Royal Scottish Museum and the National Museum of Antiquities merged to become the National Museums of Scotland . |
| 6 | The twice-weekly programme was founded 15 years ago by Frank Delaney . |
| 7 | When the BES programme was started ten years ago , it aimed to provide tax incentives for entrepreneurs willing to take the risk of investing over five years in new small businesses . |
| 8 | Although their research was done some years ago , the conclusions of Hatch and Mocroft still hold : ‘ On the whole , towns low in voluntary organisations tended to be the ones that were low in terms of social class ’ . |
| 9 | The British chapter was founded three years ago , and has made its presence felt in various ways , although they emphasise that ‘ We 're terribly shy and retiring — we 'd hate to think anyone felt we like drawing attention to ourselves . ’ |
| 10 | He is one of a series of Scholars in Residence who have run courses there since Schumacher College was started two years ago , with the support of the Dartington trustees , by Satish Kumar , the ever-busy founder of the Small School in north Devon , and editor of Resurgence magazine . |
| 11 | ‘ Equal pay for equal work ’ was a justifiable battle-cry of the feminist movement and that ambition was achieved some years ago . |
| 12 | The term was to cover 21 years with a Royalty of one-twelfth of all metals and minerals — in a merchantable condition . |
| 13 | The Nemo Brass Quintet was formed three years when all its members were students at the Royal Northern College of Music , Manchester . |
| 14 | Our marriage was arranged many years ago . |
| 15 | The divorce was granted two years later . |
| 16 | The mill 's equipment was removed many years ago following which it was converted to a row of cottages . |
| 17 | ‘ BEST-EXECUTION' — an adviser or broker dealing on the best available terms — was one of the pillars on which the Financial Services Act was built six years ago . |
| 18 | This Act was enacted five years before the federal Act of that name and highlights the tendency for California to lead the way in pollution control legislation , with the federal government following in its footsteps . |
| 19 | PERCY GEORGE HERBERT FENDER was born 100 years ago on August 22 . |
| 20 | The institute was formed six years ago as a result of the amalgamation of the Macaulay Institute of Soil Research and the Hill Farming Research Organisation . |
| 21 | If you had put £25 per month into a savings plan with the Pru when your child was born TEN years ago it would be worth £5,661 . |
| 22 | Its ornate Town Hall was completed in 1858 and was ceremonially opened by Queen Victoria herself , while the oval , glass-domed Corn Exchange was erected three years later . |
| 23 | This fundamental requirement was established some years ago and is achieved by creating work , spatial , engineering and technical sub-files with the CAD part files . |
| 24 | A demo of Epic was released two years ago which was extremely impressive . |
| 25 | An effect of this sort was reported some years ago by Grastyan ( 1961 ) , who monitored an electrophysiological correlate ( hippocampal slow waves ) of the overt OR during conditioning and found that the electrical response diminished as the CR emerged . |
| 26 | Six hundred people in the business coughed up £2 10s 0d each , thereby becoming known as the Noble Six Hundred ; subsequent donations and the proceeds of Royal Variety performances meant that a nursing wing was added two years ago , and today there are 36 residents with a staff of 60 to look after them . |
| 27 | The inference which might be drawn from this analysis was that Eliot himself had conceived a homosexual passion for just such a young man and , when the article was reprinted four years after Eliot 's death , it was suggested to be Jean Verdenal , the Frenchman whom Eliot had met in Paris when he was a student there and to whom , after his death in the First World War , he dedicated Prufrock and Other Observations . |
| 28 | And since the custom was revived four years ago the cider crop has never been better . |
| 29 | Ministry of Defence approval was gained many years ago and as such PAS have supplied much needed parts to the RAF 's Battle of Britain Memorial Flight , all transactions being made with the relevant release documentation . |
| 30 | The Friend Teesside group was formed four years ago to provide a counselling and advice service and last year received 597 calls for help . |