Example sentences of "in a [noun] [det] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | To give the House another example of a fault in the management of the prison service , I remember taking part in a case several years ago involving a prison breakout . |
| 2 | He believed it to work in scenes rather than in its entirety , and in a lecture some years later he criticized himself for not properly developing the action and for failing to adapt the classical theme to a contemporary situation . |
| 3 | He really said it all to me in a comment some years ago : ‘ The ICM must become the accepted mirror of the credit scene , and we must be wary of some things which can break the reflection . ’ |
| 4 | In an editorial some years later the Army magazine Salvationist reported , " Diane Thompson and Sharon Swindells did not merely lose their lives . |
| 5 | On Thursday last week , wheelchair-bound Linda Eldisogi , 41 , who lost a leg in an accident several years ago , arrived at the Daily Mirror in a taxi . |
| 6 | Nevertheless his poetry , as he said in an interview some years later , had " connected the wartime work very well " and " fitted in very nicely to the conditions under which I was writing " . |