Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [adj] years before [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trouble was that after they were born , children had to wait for six years before they could be sent to school and forgotten for most of the day . |
| 2 | Though debt-for-equity swaps represent one way for banks to recover part of their developing country debt exposure , they still stand to lose money and look likely to have to wait for some years before they can cash in their equity stakes . |
| 3 | He was fifty when his rise to prominence began soon after the accession of Amenophis III , whom he was to serve for thirty years before he died at the age of eighty . |
| 4 | It saved two years repayments at the end of the mortgage , because endowments matured here , saving those last two years , purely because we started paying in two years before we actually took the mortgage out . |
| 5 | Compared with five years before it was a raging torrent . |
| 6 | " And we worked for many years before we collected a single cup of rubber , do you hear ? |
| 7 | Available in varying maturity , it must be kept for two years before it attains a real ‘ bite-back ’ sharpness . |