Example sentences of "come [adv] [num] years " in BNC.

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1 The protest in Tianjin was perhaps yet another indication of things to come over two years later when respect for the Party had declined still further and Deng Xiaoping had little support left among young intellectuals .
2 The scathing attack came just two years after Sir Claus had caused a storm by warning our crumbling schools were in danger of turning out the dunces of Europe .
3 Acting in line with his belief that ‘ the people who are closest to the work really do know it better ’ , Mr Welch came up two years ago with an anti-bureaucratic device called ‘ the work-out . ’
4 Fellow of Balliol , went to Harvard in his late thirties , came back five years ago .
5 I came out seven years later , and the whole world had changed .
6 Proprietors Joan and Graeme Hall came here 10 years ago .
7 I came here eight years ago from Unilever , and the standards I respected there are the ones I would try to uphold at Cancer Relief .
8 I said to Joan I said well when we came here five years ago , I 'm glad we did n't get her , by gawld she did look young
9 Whyte have paid their dues and done their YTS with countless disasters , eventually coming together three years ago with an inventive house interpretation of Jimi Hendrix 's ‘ Purple Haze ’ .
10 About 500 of the company 's 904 workforce will be on site for the occasion which was coming nearly five years after a visit by the Duke of Gloucester .
11 I think it is about , coming up thirty years now .
12 The bid comes nearly 13 years after Unigate made its first , unsuccessful , attempt to buy Clifford and follows the latter 's announcement in October of a 60 per cent drop in first-half profits to £1.03 million .
13 The second volume of drawings in the J. Paul Getty Museum comes out four years after the first and is equally welcome .
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