Example sentences of "[adv] [num] years ago [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Japanese learned that their Far Eastern neighbours were better at making portable radios and black and white televisions and for some years now have passed over production of these items when only 10 years ago they were world leaders . |
| 2 | Audiences have tired of Danish and German bands , though only three years ago they accepted them with open arms . |
| 3 | Only two years ago I myself wrote an essay which uses all three of these mechanisms directly about Rose of Lima : it diagnoses her ‘ problem ’ as a sado-masochistic relationship to God , it relates this causally to a religious culture which is viciously sexist and heterosexist , and it suggests that we deal with all this by growing up into spiritual maturity and putting such alarming eccentricities behind us . |
| 4 | Barnes added : ‘ Being on the same pitch as that other bloke Barnes would be a dream because only two years ago I was putting up the nets on Sunday mornings for my hospital team . ’ |
| 5 | Just four years ago I was working in China and I celebrated International Women 's Day in China . |
| 6 | But nearly fifty years ago he was a prisoner at Colditz . |
| 7 | I was erm , asked to er speak on behalf of the locals , as it were , and er so er what can I say but welcome back , welcome back to the where there 's nearly forty years ago you were and erm we do welcome you back here again today . |
| 8 | Although the PCW affair first came to light nearly nine years ago it remains the single largest City controversy on record . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've spent all my life in general PR , but it was about eight years ago I decided that there was room for a specialist agency , not really a PR firm , which was concerned entirely with government relations . |
| 10 | About 12 years ago I was there for four months , and it was 16 weeks too long . |
| 11 | , writes : A FRIEND maintains that about 10 years ago he boarded a train in London , played cards and had a few drinks and did n't leave the train until he reached Paris . |
| 12 | About three years ago we moved to a farm . |
| 13 | Ladies and gentlemen erm about three years ago we finally decided to restore this car that you see behind us and although it was er an impossible task at times we , we carried on regardless and I hope that you 'll agree that everything you see today , plus the fact that seeing everybody out here , I think we , you 'll agree we made the right decision and er we feel that as long as this car is in this position that nobody 'll erm have any doubts who the Three- Ninetieth Group were and er , I think er , I think we 're all proud of this day particularly . |
| 14 | about three years ago he uprooted and went to Guildford . |
| 15 | ABOUT three years ago you wrote about a mystery viral illness called Myalgic Encephalomyelitis . |
| 16 | About three years ago I was running a workshop for students training to be secondary teachers at the Institute of Education in London , something I and colleagues have been doing annually for the last ten years or so . |
| 17 | About three years ago I was reading a newspaper and there was this big article about my approved school . |
| 18 | Till about 5 years ago I used to run a tea stall . |
| 19 | Now in the old we had er quite a reasonable scheme on this actual erm but you see , about ten years ago I think it was , there was another estate built on to , it 's called and although at that time we made the strongest possible representation for improvements and traffic calming in which is the only road that goes in and nothing was done . |
| 20 | About 6 years ago we therefore set out to raise the image of Washroom with the hope of protecting our customer base in difficult times and to generally increase sales . |
| 21 | my Lord , I , my Lord I do recall about five years ago I , remember advising one of the future 's markets and see come to the life of me remember what was in them |
| 22 | But about five years ago it shifted ‘ on expert advice ’ , to a denser uranium titanium mixture . |
| 23 | This guy was great though we met in Ireland cos he was erm he used to own about three or four supermarkets , er small chains and he just one day , he 's about he 's about fifty eight , sixty now and one day he said about five years ago he just got fed up and just walked out . |
| 24 | I can remember at Westfield school about fifteen years ago we had an art teacher , who got the children to make an enormous thing , I think it was a Loch Ness Monster , and it went out of , out of the door of one room into another , you know , and they spent days and ages on making this thing |
| 25 | It was about twenty years ago I met Compeyson . |
| 26 | At all events , when the innovative literary theory derived from structuralism began to arrive about twenty years ago it found actual or potential fissures in the form of life and it sought to enlarge and penetrate them . |
| 27 | Fat fish in laburnum ( above ) ‘ I have always made things , ’ says Ned , ‘ and while on a boating holiday on the Thames about 15 years ago I found a branch of very dark wood lying on the ground . |
| 28 | It must have been about four years ago we 'd come . |
| 29 | ‘ About four years ago I wrote a book called The Bamboo Cage , which investigated the allegation that American prisoners had been left behind in Vietnam after the war had ended . |
| 30 | About thirty years ago it was first demonstrated that a drug , 6-mercaptopurine , suppressed the immune response to bovine serum albumen in the rabbit . |