Example sentences of "year [adv] as a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A YOUNG handbag snatcher was jailed for five years yesterday as a judge signalled the fight back against street crime . |
| 2 | Penguin starts life as a hideously deformed tot who bursts on to the scene years later as a fat , big-beaked freak determined to rule Gotham City and do away with Batman ( Michael Keaton ) . |
| 3 | Rumour was rife in 1588 and this was the time , armed with the deathbed testimony of Mrs Barnes , and the cutting taken from the drapes of Littlecote ( incidentally , the cutting was found to fit the curtains which were sold many years later as a memento to an American ) , that the lawyers , probably headed by Anthony Brooks , tried to charge Darrel in court . |
| 4 | It finally fell two years later as a result of famine , having been surrounded by Frankish earthworks and troops who had remained through the winter months . |
| 5 | The ancient Chinese invented it 2,000 years ago as a way to pass instructions down the line and information up to the top . |
| 6 | The Law Society 's Accident Legal Advice Service ( ALAS ) started some years ago as a way of promoting personal injury work . |
| 7 | Starting 100 years ago as a way of entertaining a bored little girl on a picnic in Oxford Lewis Carroll 's story still fascinates . |
| 8 | An electronics specialist called Colin Crook set up Zynar three years ago as a subsidiary of the Rank leisure group . |
| 9 | ‘ I came here years ago as a child with cousins from Norwich , just for the day . ’ |
| 10 | Recent plays have focussed on the sensational , and probably the most successful recent depiction was in a play written over 100 years ago as a novel , the National Theatre 's production of Nicholas Nickleby featuring the character , ‘ Smike ’ . |
| 11 | Defined twenty years ago as a community 's ability to collaborate effectively in identifying problems and finding solutions , community competence has recently been associated with improved health outcomes ( Eng , 1989 ) . |
| 12 | In the absence of the proverbial golf course , the lack of networks through which to find suitably experienced women for senior board appointments could be construed as the final obstacle — were it not , it was pointed out , for the rapid proliferation of alternatives in the form of Network , set up all of 12 years ago as a meeting point for women managers , the Scottish Women 's Enterprise Group and Businesswomen 's Clubs . |
| 13 | The Olympic Games , conceived in the days of ancient Athens , and revived nearly a hundred years ago as a festival of athletic excellence , brings the young from every corner of the globe every four years in the pursuit of glory . |
| 14 | Although the standard of management has been variable , it is much better than it was 10 or 15 years ago as a result of fiercer competition and a great deal of fall-out . |
| 15 | MICHAEL O'Neill started his cycle business at Main Street three years ago as a result of his own interest in cycling . |
| 16 | The institute was formed six years ago as a result of the amalgamation of the Macaulay Institute of Soil Research and the Hill Farming Research Organisation . |
| 17 | Robert Harris established his name many years ago as a designer of sound blue water cruising yachts , so it was no surprise when a couple tackled him in the late 1960s to design for them a small yacht that would take them from Canada to New Zealand in both comfort and safety . |
| 18 | The points at which fighting was fiercest were Shalamcheh and Fish Lake , a reservoir constructed by the Iraqi forces some years earlier as a barrier against anticipated attempts to take Basrah . |
| 19 | Operating profit for the year fell to £2,450m from £3,400m last year again as a result of redundancy charges . |