Example sentences of "a few years back " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few years back , I bought an old desk at an auction and , when I got it home , found that the drawers had not been emptied by its previous owner . |
| 2 | ‘ I believe the Breadalbane men were up in arms against their commanders down at Glasgow a few years back . |
| 3 | Well , I take as I find , and can only say that I was happy to do Toshack a favour a few years back when a friend , an international fixer with contacts in Portuguese football , rang to ask if anyone might be available to Sporting Lisbon . |
| 4 | Victoria , aged 12 , made a beeline for the reconstituted orange juice and sandwiches prepared by a pair of stout volunteer ladies who arrived from Russia themselves a few years back , and two-year-old Oleg was soon roaring about wildly on a plastic fire-engine in the playroom . |
| 5 | ‘ A few years back , you could not get young women to be active , ’ said Judy Miller , president of the Los Angeles-based Trusteeship , an organisation of influential women in business and the arts . |
| 6 | But he 's still mainly known either for having had Grace in his face a few years back , or as the third meatboy in line after Stallone and Scharzenegger ; one of that strange Eighties breed of actors who can manage all kinds of complicated weapons , but have trouble with lines of dialogue longer than ten words . |
| 7 | Broderick has faced more of a problem , since it seemed a few years back that he had stopped ageing . |
| 8 | A FEW years back , Neville Brody had a go at redesigning the CND logo . |
| 9 | Well , a few years back someone else not far away opened a late-night disco and also called it the House of Music ! |
| 10 | Are these words to use about an ally you stood shoulder to shoulder with only a few years back ? ’ |
| 11 | A few years back , my mother was staying with us ; a lady of advancing years but still a very keen angler . |
| 12 | A few years back . ’ |
| 13 | It had become obvious a few years back that this was a problem for Britain . |
| 14 | This happened to us a few years back . |
| 15 | Nahh … what I 'd really like to do is come back as the guy who shot Reagan a few years back , only I would n't miss ! |
| 16 | Akai tried a similar idea a few years back with their U4 phrase trainer , but that was , surprisingly , a flop . |
| 17 | Example 1 is the hook riff from a well known Huey Lewis tune from a few years back . |
| 18 | A few years back , when the scale of the problem that AIDS would represent was just becoming clear , a senior civil servant tried unsuccessfully to nudge the Government about the need for a policy to handle the impending crisis . |
| 19 | The NUR had an unfortunate experience , apparently , a few years back when it made an unwise sponsorship . |
| 20 | It did this in Tuscany a few years back , when Chianti was in the doldrums . |
| 21 | This once was a track , a few years back , |
| 22 | I 've known him since our youth days and we became quite friendly when we were picked to play for Scotland 's Under-20 side together a few years back . |
| 23 | ‘ Bell did n't do a market survey and ask , do you want a telephone ? ’ remarked Professor Derek Birchall , a senior ICI research executive , a few years back . |
| 24 | A few years back I was invited by the Church of England to be an ecumenical guest at a consultation , held at Ely , on the charismatic renewal movement . |
| 25 | Television 's ‘ Hammer ’ found himself in the slammer when he tried smuggling cocaine into Britain a few years back . |
| 26 | The former '80s high flier is already well on the way to digging itself out of the mess it got itself into a few years back . |
| 27 | There was a remarkable occasion , a few years back , when the Japanese government begged people to take their proper holidays and spend some of the embarrassingly large trade surplus . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Despite the ‘ Britain 's ugliest group ’ tag that 's hung around their neck since the start , the Inspirals are a better band to look at than they were a few years back . |
| 30 | Ever since Bob Haboldt opened his Paris gallery on the faubourg Saint Honoré a few years back , things have been relatively quiet at his New York offices . |