Example sentences of "[noun prp] a few years back " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
1	She married a chap called Parkes a few years back but he went off and left her .
2	When I was in college in the States a few years back , we read about the pre-feminist lives of the middle-class young women in the 50s and early 60s .
3	It did this in Tuscany a few years back , when Chianti was in the doldrums .
4	A painting by Brueghel the elder was lifted from the Courtauld a few years back .
5	This show is a kind of extension of club events I did in LA a few years back which used computer graphics , big projections , dance music and crowds .
6	In the very next group I chanced upon that guy , you know the one , he used to read the weather on TVS a few years back , grey hair , quite tall , you know , John something .
7	He seems to like getting rid of the crowd pleasers , look at his history Cantona last year , Vinny a few years back , John Sheridan before that and now Batty .
8	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 .
9	We had no Peters , no Colins , only one David and , though there had been a Kevin a few years back , we were now understaffed in that area too .
10	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 .
11	Nahh … what I 'd really like to do is come back as the guy who shot Reagan a few years back , only I would n't miss !
12	Television 's ‘ Hammer ’ found himself in the slammer when he tried smuggling cocaine into Britain a few years back .
13	‘ I believe the Breadalbane men were up in arms against their commanders down at Glasgow a few years back .
14	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 .

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