Example sentences of "year [adv] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This rude awakening was , however , still a few years away at the time when Dustin joined . |
| 2 | I was light years away at the time these alleged crimes took place . |
| 3 | Figure 4.1 shows the employment status of two age-groups of older workers immediately after redundancy and three years later at the time of interview . |
| 4 | One of the children , the little boy , did indeed follow his mother ten years later at the age of fourteen . |
| 5 | Years later at the age of thirty-eight , she finally killed herself . |
| 6 | He and Hopkins met only once , but that was enough to cause an emotional crisis in Hopkins , who was upset at the unexpected depth of his feelings for him , even after he was drowned two years later at the age of nineteen . |
| 7 | In 1922 Mr Charles Hinks became articled to Mr Latimer and was given a partnership on qualifying five years later at the age of 21 quite a distinction as the custom was to buy a share in a practice . |
| 8 | In between the posts went Ian Hepburn who retired from football several years ago and whose previous game in that position was ‘ umpteen ’ years before at the age of 12 . |
| 9 | Indeed , animals with shells ( the first kind of skeletons ) appeared only 530 million years ago at the beginning of the period known as the Cambrian — fairly late , compared with the age of life itself . |
| 10 | Euparkeria appeared 225 million years ago at the beginning of the Triassic — a small archosaur . |
| 11 | ‘ Primitivism ’ the big show that addressed the relationship between the two a few years ago at the Museum of Modern Art got the debate off to a controversial and often acrimonious start . |
| 12 | Former Macci pupils include Tommy Ho , who turned pro three years ago at the age of 15 , and Will Bull , the National Boys 18 runner-up in 1990 who is a rookie on the tour . |
| 13 | He played for Bradford Park Avenue against Millwall in the Second Division 60 years ago at the age of 15 years , 158 days . |
| 14 | From the moment he decided to take up running nine years ago at the age of 38 , Zarei had never been interested in running against the clock , or in beating others . |
| 15 | SEVEN years ago at the age of 41 , Carolyn Scott moved to Essex and started a full-time philosophy degree at Essex University . |
| 16 | Stuart had told me that Aj ( whose name is short for Arnold Junior , after the Head Forester of whom he became the spitting image when he first came to work at Clumber as a woodsman ten years ago at the age of sixteen ) was a dab hand with a tractor . |
| 17 | For someone who describes herself as a late starter in sailing — she first stepped into a dinghy 15 years ago at the age of 29 — Mary Falk has accumulated a phenomenal amount of experience . |
| 18 | SOME 70 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous and beginning of the Palaeocene the climate of the Earth underwent a profound change . |
| 19 | ‘ I saw her play Saffi twenty years ago at the Volksoper . |
| 20 | The man who headed the pack was Naoya Ogawa , 21 , of Japan , who first came to prominence two years ago at the World Championships in Essen when he threw Britain 's Elvis Gordon for ippon in the final of the open weight category . |
| 21 | Today it 's officially known , as it was five thousand years ago at the height of its civilization , as Thera Island . |
| 22 | They may have had some basis in reality because bones of a large primate 3.5 metres tall and weighing 800 pounds , found in caves in southern China , date back to over 300,000 years ago at the time Homo Erectus was still alive . |
| 23 | When she went to Bolsover a few years ago at the time of the salmonella in eggs crisis , she went into South Normanton marketplace and met a woman there who said , ’ Hey you , are you Currie , the one about the salmonella ? ’ |
| 24 | A former Roman Catholic priest who had spent eight years as a missionary in Africa and then seven years in England and Scotland , he arrived in Kingsley four years ago at the start of the project to breathe new life into the empty village school . |
| 25 | HCI offers discounts for all children aged 2–11 years inclusive at the time of travel . |
| 26 | Now penurious ( ‘ I live , ’ she said , ‘ from mouth to hand ’ ) , and accepting her situation with great dignity and courage , she was striving to fulfil her ambition of taking the degree denied to her on the grounds of race years earlier at the University of Cracow . |
| 27 | Ten years earlier at the time of the Younger Report , it had been possible to compile a rough estimate of the number of computer installations ; all thoughts were then on the powerful centralised main-frame equipment which had dominated the technology till then . |
| 28 | Tatarinov argued that all ministries and other governmental institutions should be obliged to produce detailed estimates for the year ahead at the time they submitted their annual accounts . |
| 29 | Well , we bought a caravan last year actually at the end of May |