Example sentences of "in [noun prp] a [adj] year " in BNC.
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1 | Graham Greene , in Panama a few years earlier , noticed a similar style of popular consultation and accessibility being used by General Omar Torrijos and his government , and suggested that the country " had evolved a very different form of democracy " from Britain 's , but one with its own validity . |
2 | A problem graphically illustrated in Swindon a few years |
3 | This show is a kind of extension of club events I did in LA a few years back which used computer graphics , big projections , dance music and crowds . |
4 | These had followed a similarly successful event held in Brussels a few years ago for members in Belgium . |
5 | yeah , that , that 's how I bought it in Sainsburys a few years ago |
6 | It did this in Tuscany a few years back , when Chianti was in the doldrums . |
7 | And a strike in nickel mines in Canada a few years ago affected Britain seriously because they were by far the country 's biggest supplier . |
8 | Worst of all , there is no reference to the work on physiological measures of intelligence , begun by J. P. Ertl in Canada a dozen years ago . |
9 | ‘ You got together again in Sydney a few years ago , I 'm told , and here you are a third time . |
10 | I was in China a few years ago and was fascinated to discover there was one bicycle for every thirty Chinese , and you see they 're not going to be distributed very equally are they ? |
11 | That Aethelbald 's position in southern England at the end of his reign was still a dominant one is suggested by the description of him in the record of this grant as ‘ king not only of the Mercians but also of the surrounding peoples ’ , but it may be that a diminution of power in the early 750s played a part in exposing him to assassination in Mercia a few years later . |
12 | At a business seminar in Australia a few years ago , Kerry Packer described his method of obtaining loans : ‘ Make sure you get the bankers to come to your office . |
13 | He was one of the three walking brothers who had stopped their walk to admire the May-Day dance in Marlott a few years before . |
14 | These should include asking the children themselves how to solve the problem , feeding back their own views to them , and enacting effective laws and enforcing them ( in a recent survey carried out by the local trading standards department of 54 premises selling cigarettes in Oxford a 12 year old was able to buy cigarettes in 13 of them ) . |
15 | Well , I , I , I mean I 've been to one , to a meeting , they had in Manchester a few years ago , Irene 's been to some . |
16 | ‘ During the three months I was in America a few years ago , it would happen again and again . |
17 | In fact I sat next to her at a lunch in Abingdon a few years ago , and erm this image one got of her of not being a listener is totally untrue erm every time she turned to me it was to listen to what I had to say . |
18 | He talked about the bad publicity for the Russians flowing from an incident in London a few years before , when the Bulgarian secret service murdered a political exile in London . |
19 | United Motors had already built a component plant in Dublin a few years before , at the specific request of the Chairman , but it had never operated profitably . |