Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] a few year " in BNC.
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| 1 | They all know that the Bill has been brought to the House in this form only because of the catastrophe of what happened on the Bills that were guillotined a few years ago — the poll tax Bills . |
| 2 | Although the large Gothic window of the chapel was replaced by a smaller one , and bay windows were added a few years later , it is still , in Pugin 's own words , ‘ the only modern building that is complete in every part in the ancient style ’ . |
| 3 | I was put in touch with a local historian who thought that the stone was possibly a Roman altar stone and said that it had been discovered set into the wall of the church when renovations were made a few years ago . |
| 4 | This grew while the city docks declined and finally were closed a few years ago . |
| 5 | During such a study , a serendipitous observation was made a few years ago in our laboratory at Bangalore . |
| 6 | A similar suggestion was made a few years later by the French scientist the Marquis de Laplace , apparently independently of Michell . |
| 7 | The old watermill was demolished a few years ago , but was active until 1960 . |
| 8 | Why was the lignite option given such short shrift by NIE when it was raised a few years ago ? |
| 9 | It was sounded a few years ago by Helen Gardner in In Defence of the Imagination , by the contributors to Laurence Lerner 's Reconstructing Literature , and in America by Gerald Graff 's Literature Against Itself ( Graff 's position has shifted somewhat in his more recent Professing Literature ) . |
| 10 | For many years it lay ignored in store , but was restored a few years ago ; its lack of finish is particularly significant . |
| 11 | That was followed a few years later by the Meadows situation in Dallas , Texas , where Alger Meadows had bought from two travelling Frenchmen a whole collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works which were all fakes . |
| 12 | I was involved a few years ago in the in the Lance , the rescue er That the lance went ashore on Hoy and er the helicopter there took the casualties of the Lance and dropped |
| 13 | You will remember that a decision was taken a few years ago that we would lay our track to the standard British gauge of 4′ 8½″ rather than to the Irish gauge of 5′ 3″ . |
| 14 | This sentiment was repeated a few years later by the Newsom Report in relation to average ability working-class adolescents . |
| 15 | This has been partly due to the new and attractive packages offered to depositors , and partly due to the increase in competition in the sector since the interest rate cartel was ended a few years ago . |
| 16 | Without the motor car in mind , I mean for instance , we had Oxford , Reading and Swindon it was suggested a few years ago , that they got together and formed the Thames Valley United . |