Example sentences of "a [num] years [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since I got my FAA seaplane rating a dozen years ago I have become a complete convert to aquatic aviation , trying my hand at it whenever I get the opportunity . |
| 2 | ( Calculations show that a million years ago it shone as much the brightest star in the sky , and equalled Venus ; it was closer to us then than it is now . ) |
| 3 | ‘ I know some are n't well off , but a hundred years ago they starved on the streets . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ A hundred years ago they were carried in after coming off their horses , or being knocked clown by carriages . |
| 5 | A hundred years ago they might have made sense , due to ignorance : like the child said , there 'd been talk of witches . |
| 6 | Over a hundred years ago they started making brass taps in the factory which is now Cooper Oils of Nailsworth . |
| 7 | are old and tired songs a hundred years ago they were on the go . |
| 8 | A hundred years on we are much less certain ; it all depends . |
| 9 | Early in the fourth century the Carthaginian clergy disapproved of a local lady addicted to the habit of venerating a martyr 's bone ; but a hundred years later we hear of only isolated protests . |
| 10 | In 1865 , the infant mortality rate was 154 per thousand live births ; a hundred years later it was 21.8 per thousand ( Registrar General , 1963 ) . |