Example sentences of "in [noun prp] [adv] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frances Millary was introduced to Medau by Marjorie Worgan in Sussex about 20 years ago . |
| 2 | There , there was a wonderful display in Chester about five years ago |
| 3 | Just as her mother had done when she 'd arrived in Athens so many years before . |
| 4 | Astor was a German who had settled in Canada about 12 years earlier and started in business , trading with Indian tribes and immigrant trappers . |
| 5 | You do not need to be a Christian , or any sort of a believer in established religion , to want to live your life by the simple principles of goodness that are symbolised by the baby born in Bethlehem almost 2,000 years ago . |
| 6 | Kingdon accepts , probably too uncritically , that modern humans originated in Africa about 200,000 years ago and then dispersed across the globe . |
| 7 | They were not too concerned with what had happened to a couple of whores in Paris over ten years ago , or even the other matter . |
| 8 | FOUR US marines were laid to rest in Virginia nearly 26 years after they were killed in Vietnam . |
| 9 | He stayed for a while reflecting on what Fitzormonde had told him ; first , both Sir Ralph and Mowbray 's murders were connected to that terrible act of betrayal in Cyprus so many years earlier . |
| 10 | Thirdly , both murders are certainly linked with Sir Ralph 's dreadful betrayal of Bartholomew Burghgesh in Cyprus so many years ago . ’ |
| 11 | At the time of the recording , Mrs S. had lived in Britain nearly twenty-five years . |
| 12 | What had been done in Outremer so many years ago had been evil ! |
| 13 | ‘ I was offered a restaurant in Cheltenham about five years ago , but I did n't even consider it . |
| 14 | Now I 'd just like to sort of This is a This is not very clear on here but I would just like to bring out This is an accident which happened down in Kent about two years ago now . |
| 15 | The US helicopter manufacturer Sikorsky signed an agreement with Turkey reported to be worth US$1,100 million on Dec. 8 for the sale and co-production of Black Hawk helicopters ; 45 were to be delivered in 1993 and 50 produced in Turkey over four years . |
| 16 | Harrison , who with colleagues has comprehensively studied deaths from asthma prospectively in Norwich over five years in a confidential inquiry , reports an average of just under five ( undoubtedly genuine ) deaths from asthma a year in a population of almost half a million . |
| 17 | The last time in Norwich about six years ago , and then there were five Magistrates out , and the sittings went on , for between two and three days . |
| 18 | Yet if Miss Hill was unlucky not to get a medal , her disappointment was nothing compared to that felt by the American Lance Larson on a steaming hot night in Rome over 30 years ago . |
| 19 | This fine old variety , raised in Suffolk about 150 years ago , owes its aromatic flavour to another good old apple , Ribston Pippin , which was one of its parents . |
| 20 | We had all heard rumours about the Legion 's paras , and I was holding myself to my vow made in the bathroom in Wales nearly ten years before . |
| 21 | He is being held in solitary confinement in Gibraltar , charged with murdering his parents in Jersey nearly five years ago . |