Example sentences of "five years [subord] [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was five years before he made another series , but in 1974 and 1975 he recorded Christmas specials . |
| 2 | Jarvefelt was an actor in Stockholm for five years before he got into opera , and — like many theatre people — he was disinclined to challenge the presumed limitations of opera singers as actors . |
| 3 | It was only nine years since Charles Sturt had returned , starving and almost blind , from discovering the Darling and the Murray Rivers ; it was to be another five years before he ventured towards the centre of Australia in search of that mythical inland sea . |
| 4 | They say the stage is a respectable profession nowadays , well maybe it is , but I ca n't think it 's changed all that much in the five years since I left . |
| 5 | It is some five years since I worked with Mr Edell in his previous incarnation as a lawyer , but he struck me as a man who would do the necessary . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's been five years since I won , ’ Levi said after the round , ‘ five years of struggling . |
| 7 | It was more than five years since she had seen him and she was saying he had n't changed . |
| 8 | She still had n't got over the shock of seeing David Markham again ; it must be … she did a rapid calculation in her head … all of five years since he 'd walked out of their lives . |
| 9 | It was a goal of the highest class , reflecting the progress the 29-year-old striker has made in the five years since he left Blundell Park to earn fame and fortune with Norwich City and Rangers . |
| 10 | Pinchbeck acknowledges that in the five years since he left , Magnus has undergone interesting change . |
| 11 | In the last five years since he set up his consultancy from his Bayswater home with a £20,000 overdraft and a stack of letterhead stationery , he has insisted that he will only work for causes in which he believes , and these causes are , by and large , left-wing . |
| 12 | Rod Bristow saw universities changing more over the next five years than they had in the previous half century . |
| 13 | And er I was pe I was paying I was still paying er five years after I 'd finished ! |
| 14 | erm About five years after I started it , I think everything was , was growing up , and erm I have n't done the major things recently , I 'm just doing gentle management . |
| 15 | In the October of 1855 Sarah returned to London , just five years after she had left her baby to be cared for in the Foundling Hospital . |
| 16 | Do n't accept a wood treatment guarantee as proof that infestation has been eliminated ; reinfestation has been found rife in a roof space only five years after it had been treated . |
| 17 | Trafalgar paid less than £3m for it back in 1976 , five years after it purchased Cunard . |
| 18 | It 's his big TV break and comes five years after he left school with just one O-level . |
| 19 | A path is now being beaten to the door of McGrain , who could not convince anybody in the game to give him a job in management for five years after he left Celtic . |
| 20 | Miss Fielding , from Stockport , presented Blue Peter for five years until she left in the summer . |