Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] a [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | They might well have done a thousand years ago , but the Imperial Age converted that horizontal relationship into a vertical one so that Sri Lankan schools still teach vertical history ‘ Ceylon Under British Rule ’ and Senegal continues its cultural obsession with France . |
| 2 | A term which certainly I , would n't have understood a few years ago . |
| 3 | Moreover , CD-ROMs , the media the Data Discman plays , while hardly universally established , are by no means the radical innovation they would have seemed a few years ago . |
| 4 | If it did n't come off , the worst thing that could have happened is that it would have taken a few years to move him out . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I think I must have aged a dozen years today , ’ she said . |
| 6 | ‘ I got him a bit of coley , and it cost me what salmon would 've cost a few years back . |