Example sentences of "not so [adj] years [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not so many years ago parents would have thought nothing of their children walking two or three miles to school in the morning and back again in the afternoon . |
| 2 | Not so many years ago , museums were definitely rather sombre and sobering places . |
| 3 | Not so many years ago , this would have been a non-question : Christians believed that the Star was one of God 's miracles , while scientists , by and large , believed that the whole story was a myth . |
| 4 | Tabitha liked it well enough as it was , though she remembered better days , not so many years ago , when the jazz bands in the bodegas had been almost loud enough to drown the furious rattle of the old spice prospectors playing mah-jongg . |
| 5 | ‘ Not so many years ago it would have taken me a little longer myself . |
| 6 | Do you know , Hugh , what the sortes sent to Roger of Salisbury , who fell into Stephen 's displeasure not so many years ago and died disgraced ? |
| 7 | Not so many years ago , a terrified young Kurdish man from Turkey sought asylum in this country . |
| 8 | so that 's not so many years ago . |
| 9 | Not so many years ago the country was covered with windmills . |
| 10 | I had slept in the bedroom myself not so many years before , and in the first light of morning had got up to see what the village might have looked like before the traffic came and before the stone walls had been breached . |
| 11 | He also always displayed apparent technical ease with the difficult rhythmic and harmonic extensions that so divided ‘ swing ’ from ‘ bebop ’ jazz performers not so many years before , and his lightning quick playing merely reinforces the impression that he was never really extended . |