Example sentences of "year [adv] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elizabeth and Helen moved into their own basement flat in an inner-city suburb in 1987. they are middle-aged and spent nearly thirty years together at the same mental handicap hospital but lived separately for the two years before the move into the community because Helen was transferred to a smaller institution . |
| 2 | Fräulein had been two years already at The Towers . |
| 3 | This rude awakening was , however , still a few years away at the time when Dustin joined . |
| 4 | I was light years away at the time these alleged crimes took place . |
| 5 | ‘ I think it may have more to do with my age — but I do feel I have got four or five years more at the top level in the game and I would love to perform at the top level of the Premier League . |
| 6 | One of the children , the little boy , did indeed follow his mother ten years later at the age of fourteen . |
| 7 | Years later at the age of thirty-eight , she finally killed herself . |
| 8 | Figure 4.1 shows the employment status of two age-groups of older workers immediately after redundancy and three years later at the time of interview . |
| 9 | He and Hopkins met only once , but that was enough to cause an emotional crisis in Hopkins , who was upset at the unexpected depth of his feelings for him , even after he was drowned two years later at the age of nineteen . |
| 10 | In 1922 Mr Charles Hinks became articled to Mr Latimer and was given a partnership on qualifying five years later at the age of 21 quite a distinction as the custom was to buy a share in a practice . |
| 11 | The couple , who were introduced to each other by one of Mr Jefferson 's relatives in 1940 , were married two years later at the Holy Trinity Church in Darlington . |
| 12 | In between the posts went Ian Hepburn who retired from football several years ago and whose previous game in that position was ‘ umpteen ’ years before at the age of 12 . |
| 13 | He did a further two years ' apprenticeship at Covent Garden , and then six years back at the Arts Council in finance department . |
| 14 | The United Kingdom 's reserves are likely to be empty in forty years even at the current rate of consumption . |
| 15 | No , no — freedom with responsibility , that was the elusive formula we pondered all those years ago at the LSE . |
| 16 | Wendy Vaughan began cooking professionally six years ago at the Old Rectory in Llansanfraid , North Wales — the family home she converted to a small hotel with her husband Michael when he sold his motor parts company . |
| 17 | Former Macci pupils include Tommy Ho , who turned pro three years ago at the age of 15 , and Will Bull , the National Boys 18 runner-up in 1990 who is a rookie on the tour . |
| 18 | He played for Bradford Park Avenue against Millwall in the Second Division 60 years ago at the age of 15 years , 158 days . |
| 19 | The man who headed the pack was Naoya Ogawa , 21 , of Japan , who first came to prominence two years ago at the World Championships in Essen when he threw Britain 's Elvis Gordon for ippon in the final of the open weight category . |
| 20 | I recall that two years ago at the NFT he announced that his great ambition as a young man had been to become a movie director : now ( aided by director of photography William Lubtchansky and production designer Chloe Obolensky ) he has made a landmark television film . |
| 21 | The meeting would be their first on an American track since their collision eight years ago at the Los Angeles Olympics . |
| 22 | Indeed , animals with shells ( the first kind of skeletons ) appeared only 530 million years ago at the beginning of the period known as the Cambrian — fairly late , compared with the age of life itself . |
| 23 | From the moment he decided to take up running nine years ago at the age of 38 , Zarei had never been interested in running against the clock , or in beating others . |
| 24 | A former Roman Catholic priest who had spent eight years as a missionary in Africa and then seven years in England and Scotland , he arrived in Kingsley four years ago at the start of the project to breathe new life into the empty village school . |
| 25 | No details on coherence of the supersecret X-ray laser demonstrated two years ago at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have been reported in public , but it seems that that device probably would not have generated coherent output for similar reasons |
| 26 | SOME 70 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous and beginning of the Palaeocene the climate of the Earth underwent a profound change . |
| 27 | Euparkeria appeared 225 million years ago at the beginning of the Triassic — a small archosaur . |
| 28 | They may have had some basis in reality because bones of a large primate 3.5 metres tall and weighing 800 pounds , found in caves in southern China , date back to over 300,000 years ago at the time Homo Erectus was still alive . |
| 29 | I was pleased to renew friendships made over two years ago at the First Congress of Black Catholics , and it was a joy to be again in a crowd of African , Afro-Caribbean and Asian Catholics where for once I was not the only black face in a sea of white ones . |
| 30 | Today it 's officially known , as it was five thousand years ago at the height of its civilization , as Thera Island . |