Example sentences of "year [subord] i [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is getting toward 70 years since I attended the lectures of that egregious humbug ‘ Tubby ’ Radcliffe at the Tech ( now UMIST ) . |
| 2 | There has been a Europeanisation of academic life over the past 20 years since I had the good luck to be appointed to Edinburgh 's Regius Chair of Public Law . |
| 3 | Software has improved dramatically in the six years since I bought the old computer and this one is faster and easier to use . |
| 4 | The railway grapevine was not the sophisticated piece of equipment we know today , and it was several years before I discovered the reason for these ‘ apparitions ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ I like to think that I have a lot to offer as well and I do n't want to have to wait years before I get the opportunity to prove myself . |
| 6 | Nothing put me off , I 'm happy to say , but in the years before I got the chance to enjoy what I did for a living , I still had to pay the rent . |
| 7 | Old John Knox had been ill for a long time and , two years after I joined the firm , he was told that he must retire . |
| 8 | I was amused , several years after I delivered the lecture , to be approached by the late Lord Rothschild — who had undertaken to discharge the lecture in that year — with an enquiry about the fee I had received . |
| 9 | Even so , I had been surprised when he agreed to back me on the amateur circuit for one year after I left the university . |
| 10 | The headmaster from 1927 to 1953 ( from the year before I was born to the year before I joined the staff ) was C. G. M. Broom : a scholar of Brasenose and , like all his predecessors , a classic in the old manner . |