Example sentences of "years [adv] [vb past] [vb pp] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This noticeboard had already played a significant part in my life : nearly thirty years before then it had displayed the result of my own first degree ( second-class honours ) ; a few years later had come the perfunctory notice saying my doctoral thesis had been accepted by the college ; and shortly after that an even briefer note to the effect that I had joined the teaching staff . |
| 2 | The people were so strong in the faith for which their forebears had fought and suffered ; their steadfastness and courage , handed down through the ages , lived on in the men and women who only a few years ago had defied the invader of their homeland . |
| 3 | But the pope , who two years earlier had confirmed the forged privilege guaranteeing the existence of the monastic community at Canterbury , warily told him to have the matter of the primacy discussed in a provincial council in the presence of a papal legate . |
| 4 | The first nude statue to be unveiled in London was the work of Sir Richard Westmacott and showed the Greek warrior Achilles in all his manliness ; a subject that had been chosen to represent the all-conquering powers of the Duke of Wellington , who seven years earlier had trounced the French at Waterloo . |
| 5 | I wondered what memories were passing through the minds of the other members of the group , especially those that 50 years earlier had paid a flying visit to Norway in rather different circumstances . |
| 6 | Peacock was indeed a director of the Bank of England ; but he was also the partner in Baring 's who two years earlier had succeeded the late Lord Revelstoke as adviser on the King 's private finances . |
| 7 | Popham Down was a 66–1 outsider for the 1967 Grand National — a decent price for a horse who three years previously had won the Scottish equivalent at Bogside — but his backers did not enjoy much of a run for their money . |