Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [verb] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1987 AMV invested in McBain Noel-Johnson , a design and advertising agency which Baulk helped found 20 years ago . |
| 2 | The Jerusalem that Richard tried to capture 700 years ago is proof of that . |
| 3 | It was the day after Marie went missing four years ago . |
| 4 | A director once commented that Kiefer Sutherland had lived two years for every one that had passed . |
| 5 | Renault had decided two years previously to close the plant , with the loss of 4,000 jobs ; production was moved to more functional and efficient sites in north-east France . |
| 6 | Lord Mountbatten had spent ten years tirelessly promoting the dream , talking about it all over the world , often in the highest places , inspiring everyone around him and shamelessly raising money to build more colleges . |
| 7 | As Suez had occurred twenty-four years earlier and as both Eden and Mountbatten were dead , it seemed to me that Sir Robert 's arguments were nonsensical . |
| 8 | That was in 1977 and Hope had to wait two years before making his second attempt . |
| 9 | Although Iceland had changed some years before to driving on the right , the bus which was well past its sell-by date — was right-hand drive ; the first bit of England I had seen for three weeks . |
| 10 | By 1898 national interest had been aroused and the British Institute of Undertakers was formed , succeeding where the United Company of Undertakers had failed 160 years previously . |
| 11 | They settled in England after Frits had spent many years serving in the Dutch Merchant Navy . |
| 12 | Madeline had spent 20 years in education and childcare management and for the last 10 had been running nine nurseries for a charity in London . |
| 13 | Guntram had died three years earlier and , according to the seventh-century chronicler Fredegar , Sigibert 's son , Childebert II ( 575 – 96 ) took over his kingdom , thus uniting what had been the kingdom of Orléans , but which came to be known as the kingdom of Burgundy , with that of Rheims , or Austrasia . |
| 14 | Rather than remove these reminders of Glasgow 's past , the city 's planners wisely insisted that the facade survived not as a real building but almost as a museum exhibit whose Stones of Venice had appeared two years earlier . |
| 15 | In it was a single bed and also the cradle in which she and Jessie had lain many years ago . |
| 16 | Mr Young started knitting 10 years ago . |
| 17 | Mrs Menzies had died five years before , killed by malaria and stomach trouble from their time in Bengal . |
| 18 | It was a chutzpah ; Zvi Lipsky had taken thirty years to build up his practice and reputation . |
| 19 | He adopted the same principle in the spandrels as William Edwards had used eight years before at Pontypridd ( q.v. ) , lightening the load with hollow tunnels through the rubble infilling . |
| 20 | Project Eden had eaten five years of his life , and spat them back at him , empty of meaning . |
| 21 | Norman Baillie-Stewart had suffered three years of bureaucratic delay while his application was passed from one office to another and back again . |
| 22 | Dr Whelan had spent three years at the Chester Beatty and had devoted herself to a detailed study of this particular Qur'an . |
| 23 | My parents , using mule transport , travelled to Addis Ababa through the Chercher mountains , by way of Harar , that ancient walled city which Burton had reached fifty-four years earlier . |
| 24 | It could not have been for lack of qualifications , for Moira had served seven years on the BBC 's General Advisory Council and four years as a director of Border Television ; so one can only assume it was because of my Liberal Party connections . |
| 25 | Against Darwin 's five years in Beagle , Wallace had spent four years exploring the Amazon basin , followed by eight years , largely alone , travelling throughout the Indonesian islands expressly seeking a solution to the evolutionary divergence of species . |
| 26 | AI Japan had spent several years planning the ICM , and Asia , s hosting of the event was appropriate in view of the organisation 's commitment to developing AI in that region . |
| 27 | ‘ Whatever S.B. can not do , ’ Tom Jones had written three years earlier , ‘ he can speak a funeral oration . ’ |
| 28 | Erm I would imagine Tukuse that the the difference that you put in difference that you would get between the reportage , to use a French expression , of Princess Diana 's abdication from public life was probably quite pronounced between say for example the Sun newspaper and the Independent newspaper I would imagine that the Independent newspaper probably did n't play in any great significance , it was probably on the front page , perhaps not with a picture but erm there was a couple of columns of report erm the Independent is famous as being the newspaper which when Prince Charles and Lady Diana got married many years ago , they reported it with a single paragraph saying Prince Charles and Diana , the whole world went made at the Royal Wedding and the Independent had one paragraph , which many people , including myself , said right on . |
| 29 | Sandra began collecting several years ago after a large repair bill for a timepiece prompted her to learn the intricate ins and outs of their workings . |
| 30 | Of the other three , Port Erin had to wait 58 years for its lifeboat station , being formed only in 1882 , while those suggested for Jurby and Laxey never materialised . |