Example sentences of "year [adv] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fräulein had been two years already at The Towers . |
| 2 | This rude awakening was , however , still a few years away at the time when Dustin joined . |
| 3 | I was light years away at the time these alleged crimes took place . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | One of the children , the little boy , did indeed follow his mother ten years later at the age of fourteen . |
| 6 | Years later at the age of thirty-eight , she finally killed herself . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He did a further two years ' apprenticeship at Covent Garden , and then six years back at the Arts Council in finance department . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Euparkeria appeared 225 million years ago at the beginning of the Triassic — a small archosaur . |
| 13 | No details on coherence of the supersecret X-ray laser demonstrated two years ago at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have been reported in public , but it seems that that device probably would not have generated coherent output for similar reasons |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | I recall that two years ago at the NFT he announced that his great ambition as a young man had been to become a movie director : now ( aided by director of photography William Lubtchansky and production designer Chloe Obolensky ) he has made a landmark television film . |
| 16 | There was a ring of sadness in his voice which she found puzzling until she remembered something from the past — Eddie 's voice repeating what he 'd told her all those years ago at the Oulton Park circuit . |
| 17 | The meeting would be their first on an American track since their collision eight years ago at the Los Angeles Olympics . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He played for Bradford Park Avenue against Millwall in the Second Division 60 years ago at the age of 15 years , 158 days . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | SEVEN years ago at the age of 41 , Carolyn Scott moved to Essex and started a full-time philosophy degree at Essex University . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I 'll remember instead another lecture I once attended , some years ago at the Cheltenham Literary Festival . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | No , no — freedom with responsibility , that was the elusive formula we pondered all those years ago at the LSE . |
| 27 | ‘ I saw her play Saffi twenty years ago at the Volksoper . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Today it 's officially known , as it was five thousand years ago at the height of its civilization , as Thera Island . |
| 30 | 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 . |