Example sentences of "which [pron] [vb past] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | One piece of research which I contemplated some years ago , but did not actually carry out , was a comparison between people who do go to the theatre and those who do not . |
| 2 | When my right hon. Friend the Minister of State next has contact with the Indonesian ambassador , will he express the abhorrence of the House at the indiscriminate shooting of men , women and children in Dili , which I visited three years ago with other hon. Members ? |
| 3 | One moved to Woodhall Farm which I joined 11 years ago . |
| 4 | These are applications which you wrote ten years ago and they may have been written in a an old like COBOL , but they meet a business need and if they 're meeting the business need day in day out then why should you replace them ? |
| 5 | Christina then became a self-employed economist-researcher after which she spent four years as the economics research officer for a major political party . |
| 6 | She also spent some time in her home country , Romania , which she left 20 years ago to live in the United States . |
| 7 | Miss Asher also runs her own cake shop , which she opened three years ago in Chelsea . |
| 8 | For instance this bit of woodland which we planted fifteen years ago — it 's becoming part of the countryside and in another generation will be here as a bit of habitat for wildlife — it 's of no monetary significance at all . |
| 9 | ‘ Project 1990 ’ , which we started two years ago , is a great help here and is a process that must and will continue . |
| 10 | In a fashionable area now known as Brompton Cross ( just a short walk from Harrods , Joseph and The Conran Shop ) , Linda and Neville Codling run Eastern Accents which they founded nine years ago on their return from the Far East . |
| 11 | He was educated at the Royal High School and the University of Edinburgh , after which he spent two years learning commerce with a London agency house . |
| 12 | In 1868 he began a two-year novitiate at Manresa House , Roehampton , after which he spent three years as seminarian at St Mary 's , Stonyhurst . |
| 13 | From 1938 to 1940 he was in England ; he returned to New Zealand in 1940 , working at various jobs until 1942 , when he joined the NZRAF , in which he spent three years . |
| 14 | For McOwan he played Justin O'Connell in Waste in 1937 , the same Granville-Barker play to which he returned 48 years later , as Russell Blackborough , with the Royal Shakespeare Company . |
| 15 | He was appointed CBE in 1951 , the year in which he began twelve years as the first president of the SSI . |
| 16 | The novel The Distant Lands , which he began twenty years later , abandoned , then took up again and finished in 1987 — a 52-year gestation ! — is dedicated ‘ to the memory of my mother , daughter of the South ’ . |
| 17 | Kenneth Andrew Sanderson , of Wallace Avenue , Huyton , was sentenced in January 1991 after a Southampton Crown Court jury found him guilty of the two robberies for each of which he received seven years , concurrent ; he got six months concurrent for an admitted burglary . |
| 18 | The article unleashed a storm about his head , the more so because of his peerage , which he renounced six years later . |
| 19 | Already , at the age of nineteen , he was experiencing the morbidity which occasionally harassed him and which he described sixteen years later in a chapter on the ‘ character ’ of Keats : |
| 20 | Britain 's top singer-impressionist told The People and friends he was planning to take the AIDS wonder drug AZT in a desperate fight against lymphoma , a rare and deadly form of cancer which he contracted four years ago . |
| 21 | Accordionist Tommy Edmondson , 58 , of Rothbury , Northumberland , has received £100 for the signature tune of the BBC children 's cartoon Captain Pugwash , which he recorded 40 years ago and was paid £2 . |
| 22 | COYHAIQUE , Chile ( AFP ) — President Pinochet said he has decided to abolish the secret police which he established 16 years ago , shortly after coming to power . |
| 23 | It was actually something of a momentous decision — and one which it seemed thirty years later was never to be repeated . |