Example sentences of "[adv] [num] years since [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is only three years since she took up painting dogs as a profession , but in that short time she has been kept constantly in work . |
| 2 | Although it 's only two years since they began acquiring the magazines , there are now so many that the bulk must remain in storage . |
| 3 | It 's only two years since they were shocked by the couple 's secret wedding in America . |
| 4 | Can it really be only two years since he was taking 4 for 36 for England against the Windward Islands ? |
| 5 | It is already sixteen years since we left London specifically to help put Norfolk on the map in the Medau world . |
| 6 | Later when Sophie remarked to no one in particular , ‘ Imagine , it is already five years since we was sitting here in Paris — ’ Lily said : |
| 7 | It was nearly six years since I first met the people of Sabra and Shatila . |
| 8 | It 's nearly three years since I started writing , I have n't got |
| 9 | By the spring of 1964 I had persuaded myself that as it was nearly nine years since I joined AIB as a Senior Inspector and I was still a Senior Inspector , I would probably draw my pension as status of the engineering investigators to that of the operational investigators . |
| 10 | We 've had that pebble-dash nearly , nearly , it 's nearly two years since they did that pebble-dash . |
| 11 | When you think it 's nearly two years since I 've been here . |
| 12 | It 's nearly two years since he was kidnapped . ’ |
| 13 | I do not doubt that over the next 20 years the Community 's evolution will be as marked as it has been in the nearly 20 years since we joined . |
| 14 | It is now 4 years since I gave my first remedy in an LM potency and it has become my preferred method of prescribing for a number of reasons 1 ) No decision has to be made on potency level i.e. whether 6 , 30 , 200 , etc is indicated . |
| 15 | It 's now ten years since he set up Some Bizzare , and in that time he has enticed Matt Johnson , You 've Got Foetus On Your Breath , Psychic TV , Einstuerzende Neubauten and Berlin-born cabaret singer Anges Bernelle into his entourage . |
| 16 | It was now ten years since he had died , and during the first year she had herself pushed the handcart out almost every day for , except for young Ben , she was on her own . |
| 17 | It is now 16 years since I wrote a book , The Poor of the Earth , to popularise one of the huge international conferences that were common during the seventies , the United Nations ' Second Development Decade . |
| 18 | However , he reflected that it was now twenty years since he had been ejected from the church on ‘ Black Bartholomew 's Day ’ , and during all that time , by God 's mercy , he , and many others had been kept in relative ‘ peace ’ and freedom to serve the Lord , despite all the efforts of the Church and State to silence them . |
| 19 | About two years since they gave me that . |
| 20 | It is not quite eight years since I made a beginning ; so that my plants must be considered as young ones . |
| 21 | It 's almost 17 years since I was last hauled up a mountainside with a metal bar across my bum , two poles in one hand and my arm around the anorak of an unknown Austrian whose only English was ‘ Bend ze knees ’ and ‘ Open ze legs ’ . |
| 22 | It is almost ten years since they have been in existence . |
| 23 | Those guidelines were produced for the police national computer mark I. It is now almost five years since they were published . |
| 24 | But latterly I 've been here very little ; in fact it must be at least fifteen years since I stayed here for any length of time … |
| 25 | It was at least fifteen years since he 'd carried a glass across a room to her . |
| 26 | It must be at least twenty years since I first saw works by Basil Rocke . |
| 27 | and they 'd both been there thirty years since they 've left school |
| 28 | Mr Austick recalled that it was almost 19 years since he ‘ turned the Tories out ’ at a by-election and said Coun. Hall was poised to repeat that surprise victory in Skipton and Ripon on April 9 . |
| 29 | Mr. Dennis has had the benefit of living in the house , despite his bankruptcy , for over eight years since he was adjudicated bankrupt . |
| 30 | All the old favourites are there in a medley of hits which , like him , have hardly failed to age over 30 years since they first hit the charts . |