Example sentences of "[subord] [adj] year [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gamekeeper John Bosher returning to the Blenheim estate wood where 10 years ago he came across a half decomposed body . |
| 2 | In 1985 Dr Rosalind Maskell at St Mary 's Hospital , Portsmouth , reported a noticeable fall in TMP resistance where two years previously she logged a sudden surge in resistance . |
| 3 | They will go to Klosters , his favourite resort in the Swiss Alps where four years ago he nearly lost his life in the avalanche which killed Major Hugh Lindsay . |
| 4 | After indifferent form in the early games , the first Test at Sabina Park , where four years earlier they had been annihilated in three days , was upon them . |
| 5 | To think that not less than 30 years ago we still had a fiver worthy of the 18th century and felt no need to supplement the revenue by the constant issuing of new postage stamps . |
| 6 | Although some years later he was to describe the kind of people with whom he now associated in a less than enthusiastic manner , it was really only in such company that he could feel any sense of purposefulness . |
| 7 | Although some years ago it seemed that a new general classification scheme based upon the theory of faceted classification might emerge and be widely adopted , organizational factors have militated against this . |
| 8 | Dalgliesh had n't seen him for more than ten years when he had been a newly appointed inspector in the Metropolitan CID and was surprised to see how little he had changed ; time , marriage , removal from London , promotion , had left no apparent mark on him . |
| 9 | When Glenn thinks about what would have happened if he had needed the transplant now rather than two-and-a-half years ago he says he gets cold shivers . |
| 10 | Less than four years later he played a significant role in Vietnam 's ousting of the Chinese-backed Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia . |
| 11 | He neglected his family for more than two years when he became obsessed with his studies on the secret of life , despite the advice of a professor called Krempe . |
| 12 | Does he recall that more than two years ago he announced that an organic scheme would be introduced in a matter of months ? |
| 13 | When he first became the candidate more than two years ago it caused considerable controversy . |
| 14 | Remarkably , more than seven years later he ran laps of 58½ , 63½ , 65¾ , and 66 seconds at Lillie Bridge , London , on 23 August 1886 to establish a world 's best time of 4 minutes 12¾ seconds that was unbeaten anywhere for the next twenty-eight seasons and was unbeaten by a Briton for forty-nine years , until Sydney Wooderson returned 4 minutes 12.7 seconds , running in Glasgow on 3 August 1935 . |
| 15 | Our Secretary has received a letter from Mr. Doug Baird , Press Officer for I.O.M. Tourism , to the effect that Saddle Mews has won the Island in Bloom award for the BEST VILLAGE — no mean achievement , and even better than last year when we were awarded 1st prize in the ESTATE AND NEIGHBOURHOOD section . |
| 16 | Gloucester are flying up country tonight … to Tyneside for tomorrow 's game against Newcastle Gosforth … the cherry and whites are unchanged … and hoping for better luck than last year when they lost against the geordies … |
| 17 | I think that they are only just getting into their stride on this particular issue , because some years ago we had flooding in Worthing , quite severe flooding , so every application went to the Southern Water Authority and we never got back no , you ca n't develop on that area and it was , it was very difficult . |
| 18 | I know because many years ago I happened to be in the right place , in the ambulance I was driving at the right time and was able to e effect a rescue of an old woman from her smoke filled house at Burstill Ten minutes later I could not have done it because of the smoke . |
| 19 | Why I er , said that was because twenty years ago we were n't a second-rate football team . |
| 20 | Yeah I mean we did insert actually in the Chairman 's statement a cautionary note about the credit announcement because two years ago we had a similar increase which in fact by the time we got to the end of the year had disappeared so we view it with a lot of caution is the answer if you ask me to be more precise I ca n't because we 've never really had a set of tax increases the like of which we face now any other questions ? |
| 21 | Erm now Alton for example started off at the beginning of the year with four and they 're now at thirty three very s very impressive how much they , them will succeed I do n't know but some other good news on that front is that erm the average age of our consultants overall is now thirty one , whereas three years ago it was twe below twenty one . |
| 22 | ( London ) , gaining a first in mental and moral science and a second in mathematics , while three years later she became the first woman to be awarded a D.Sc . |
| 23 | In 1592 Sir Thomas Sherley offered £200 for an office , while two years later he was expressing shocked — but rather unconvincing — indignation at the rumour that he was being paid £4,600 for his own position as Treasurer of the Wars . |
| 24 | I think that that is , is something that you know we looked at the you know the Mirror that you know while thirty years ago they were doing short punchy stories and they maintained that , that there was actually |
| 25 | ‘ Today , he was able to be dropped in behind , whereas last year when he ran third in the Tiffany Highflyer , he was drawn on the far side in a 30-runner race and Steve [ Cauthen ] had to ride him handy to the pace , ’ Stoute said . |
| 26 | On many a winter morning I jumped out of bed and put a letter of his in the fire , feeling it would be wrong to allow it to survive ; and when some years ago I was asked by a distinguished man of letters if I could help him to write an account of Maurice |
| 27 | When some years ago I decided to pay the Life Governor 's subscription the expense was for me a serious cost but was willing to pay it to ensure that I should continue to enjoy the privileges without having to worry about future subscriptions when I had retired from salaried work . |
| 28 | Cotswolds are a rare breed success story , as twenty years ago they were almost extinct.Now there are around a thousand Cotswold ewes , and the future of the breed is assured . |
| 29 | As we live only a short distance from the Thames , we have to keep a net over the pond , as two years ago we lost 18 fish to a heron . |
| 30 | But when two years ago I woke you |