Example sentences of "a [adj] years [subord] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , Dudek had taken his doctorate at Columbia , and Federico Garçia Lorca had studied there a few years before Leonard was born . |
| 2 | Although a few years since Sunday Caddies were mentioned , they were still controversial , and in 1925 the Harpsden Parish Church of St Margaret sought to ban them under 14 years of age , so as to improve the chances of their attending Sunday School and Church . |
| 3 | It was only a few years since Schiaparelli had been a living pan-cultural matrix , a cosmopolitan crossroads of the solar system , where all the client races of Capella could co-exist in noisy harmony , or pass through , haggling , to the caravanserais of the south . |
| 4 | It was nearly two and a half years since Hamish had walked out on Daisy and she could no longer claim to be madly in love with him , but she missed the presence of a man in her life , and her self-confidence was in tatters . |
| 5 | Yet now , three and a half years after Debbie was discharged from hospital , her mother has written a letter to the authorities , bitterly criticising them for ‘ bad planning , no comprehension and dismissive attitudes ’ . |
| 6 | It is just a hundred years since Felix Liebermann first propounded the theory that Anselm 's friendship with Archbishop Hugh of Lyons brought a new element into his life . |
| 7 | A hundred years before Elizabeth came to the throne no member of the human race had ever been in a position to make a map of the whole world ; civilizations had risen and flourished in different regions of the world but they had little or no idea of their geographical relationship to one another . |
| 8 | Almost a hundred years before Richard Baxter was born , Tyndale 's Bible was being smuggled into England . |
| 9 | A hundred years before Copernicus published , Nicholas of Cusa had argued that man 's distinctiveness consisted not in his location but in his ability to cultivate a state of learned ignorance . |