Example sentences of "that [verb] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the strangest case on record is that described five years ago in The Lancet ( 1978 , vol 2 , p 952 ) by Dr M. Loughhead and two colleagues at the Royal Hobart Hospital , Tasmania . |
| 2 | For Washburn 20 years of visual carnage has meant increasing mental instability and a compulsion to uncover the truth behind a murder that occurred 120 years before . |
| 3 | Some Old Testament books describe events that occurred many years before they were written . |
| 4 | Why are we discussing events that happen 12 years ago , talk about that season is bringing back painful memories . |
| 5 | Well that happened two years ago did n't it ? |
| 6 | ‘ David brings up situations that happened five years ago and still writes about them . |
| 7 | A spokesman for Midland said : ‘ They are technical rule breaches that happened three years ago . |
| 8 | I 've always had better things to do with my time than to plot hypothetical revenge for something that happened ten years ago ! ’ she snapped . |
| 9 | ‘ Do you really believe I 'd have blown a career I loved just to get even with you for something that happened ten years ago ? |
| 10 | The skill that takes five years to learn |
| 11 | Furthermore , as the gilded eagle seems poised for take-off to do battle with enemy hordes coming from the south-east , the memorial seems to have anticipated most aptly the events that followed 17 years after its unveiling . |
| 12 | ‘ You 're talking about a world that seems light years from here . |
| 13 | From their discarded belongings she had made a museum that recorded forty years of family history . |
| 14 | Using a national cancer registry that started 50 years ago , we examined trends of anal cancer in Denmark . |
| 15 | That latter race was to be the forerunner of the great Paris races that started seven years later when continental manufacturers would use the races to show off their vehicles . |
| 16 | She was going to a flat which would have very little growing space , apart from the odd window box , and was leaving behind an extremely beautiful garden that contained many years of memories . |
| 17 | A career that spanned seven years at Oldham and four years with Hibs can now be seen only as preparation for the place where , and the time when , Goram would reach a higher plane of achievement . |
| 18 | TransTools ' latest product is MultiBase , an applications development tool for relational databases that took four years to develop . |
| 19 | And so — in my case very reluctantly , in a slow process of decision-making that took two years — we have taken the road to Budapest . |
| 20 | Unveiled : the jigsaw that took ten years |
| 21 | Largely missing from de Gaulle 's account were the dilemmas , ambiguities , illusions , deceptions , and self-deceptions that gave these years their poignancy . |
| 22 | I did n't know the person but I knew of her and I knew a friend of mine went to her , this is the one that did seven years . |
| 23 | In many subjects , statements of attainment can not sensibly be seen as achievements that take two years of work . |
| 24 | In any event , few parents and teachers would be satisfied with a system with such weak powers of discrimination that it could detect nothing more detailed than changes that take two years to occur . |
| 25 | Then , suddenly , when a manager had responsibility for tasks and projects that exceeded five years in scope , everyone seemed to perceive a difference not only in the scope of responsibility but also in its quality and in the kind of work and worker required to discharge it . |
| 26 | Exposed : The black hole that hides forty years of pollution . |
| 27 | I know it because I see people regularly that retired five years ago six years ago , seven . |
| 28 | The colony are the survivors of 60 baboons which escaped from a safari park that closed 20 years ago . |
| 29 | Now the remarkable psychic detective exclusively opens a casebook that spans 20 years to tell two more amazing stories : Why she believes that Lord Lucan is still alive ; and how she helped the hunt to find the killers of tragic safari girl Julie Ward . |