Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] years ago [pers pn] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tom West , head of Data General 's Advanced Systems Development Group claims that DG 's lonely advocacy of the 88000 RISC ‘ is not a problem — two or three years ago I was more worried about the decision than I am now ’ . |
| 2 | Three or four years ago we were involved in this only in a very minor way . |
| 3 | The column makes no secret of the fact that ten years ago we were his best man . |
| 4 | However , there is no escaping the fact that fifteen years ago it was rare to see wildly deranged people on the streets of London and other major cities . |
| 5 | Okay , yeah better transport technology a hundred and fifty years ago it was impossible t erm , to transport meat across the Atlantic it 's er , very straightforward now so the advent of different types of , er , transport technology and improved transport technology erm , has made tr , facilitated trade okay . |
| 6 | As a student at Cambridge he played squash for the University and three years ago he was set to take up stock car racing . |
| 7 | Excavations have uncovered positive proof that between 10,000 and 25,000 years ago it was a wild beast 's den with bones of extinct animals having been found in the stalagmites on the cave floor . |
| 8 | It 's Lord Blandford 's second trip to Pentonville … there was a drugs sentence in 1986 … and two years ago he was sent to Oxford prison for driving offences . |
| 9 | I do n't know whether I told you … but some years ago she was diagnosed as having … polyneuritis … ’ |
| 10 | Novae are now believed to be caused by gas spilling from one star to another in a close double-star system , but 30 years ago they were a complete mystery ; only two dozen had been spotted in time for astronomers to study them while they were still erupting . |
| 11 | The boat which regularly patrols the waterway was once crewed by police officers , but two years ago they were withdrawn . |
| 12 | But two years ago he was finally discharged , to be treated as an out patient . |
| 13 | At 59 I 'm the novelty man of big time races , but seven years ago it was a different matter . |
| 14 | Why I er , said that was because twenty years ago we were n't a second-rate football team . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | 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 . |