Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] a [adj] years " in BNC.
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1 | When Edith had met Joss Campbell a few years later he had been so glad for her , because Joss was older than Edith and was more than a match for Nancy . |
2 | Sheldon Glashow writing his thesis at Harvard University a few years later , and Abdus Salam and John Ward independently in Imperial College , London , took this similarity seriously . |
3 | Ever since Bob Haboldt opened his Paris gallery on the faubourg Saint Honoré a few years back , things have been relatively quiet at his New York offices . |
4 | In 1821 , Mr. Pulley resigned and his successor , Thomas Woolridge , a surgeon of the High Street , was appointed at 50 guineas per annum , to be followed himself by Mr. Blower a few years later at a salary of £63 per annum . |
5 | I know he has done some bar work , ( hardly surprising for a pisshead like Harvey ) I remember seeing him in the Three Cups at Stamford Bridge a few years back . |
6 | ‘ OK , so there was poor Georgi Markov a few years ago in London . |
7 | In France , Jean-Pierre Chevènement , who resigned as defence minister shortly after the outbreak of war , accused the United States a few years ago of ‘ the organised cretinisation of our people . ’ |
8 | Hell , everybody I know 's done something like that at some time or another but that does n't make them a murderer ; I think McDunn 's crazy but I ca n't tell him that because , if he 's wrong about that and I 'm wrong about it being something to do with those guys who died in the Lake District a few years ago , then there 's only one suspect left and that 's me . |
9 | Although all of us are deeply concerned to know precisely what happened in East Timor , will she bear it in mind that , since Indonesia took over East Timor a few years ago , there has been considerable development of the infrastructure in that country , and that , although no one condones that massacre , we must know what has been going on before we adopt the language that we heard from the Labour party ? |
10 | Officials said that , had Labour won , there would have been a period of uncertainty , although Mr Kinnock 's policies had changed and he was no longer the frightening prospect he seemed to the US administration a few years ago . |
11 | He was joined by Peter Sheppard a few years later when it became apparent that so much information was potentially available from flight recorders that it needed another man to help interpret all the data . |
12 | The stables of the castle had been bought from the Sanvitale family a few years before by a family from Milan ( but of Fontanellato origin ) called the Gandini . |
13 | I think Melquíades , the Gipsy in Gabriel Garcia Marquez' A Hundred Years of Solitude , gives an answer when he says ‘ Things have a life of their own … |
14 | Gabriel Garcia Marquez' A Hundred Years of Solitude also begins with a childhood but it engages with a quite different feeling : |
15 | In Sri Lanka a few years back , shortly before the elections , he wandered through the frightened crowds at political rallies , despite warnings that danger was imminent . |
16 | The Manchester City chairman Peter Swales sacked Mel Machin a few years ago for the same reason ; rapport with fans , he believed , was even more important than results . |
17 | After her move from New York to New Mexico a few years ago , Rothenberg became neighbours with another aritst who has strongly influenced her career , Agnes martin . |
18 | Trainer Ian Duncan , whose stable is on the shores of Lough Neagh , was also scoring his first win in this historic race although he had gone close when Camlin River was beaten by Phillipinetown Lad a few years ago . |