Example sentences of "year [adv] as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a programme leader of seven years at Iona Abbey , plus three years more as centre warden , she has welcomed , entertained and talked with hundreds of people in pursuit of inner calm . |
| 2 | Responding to criticism from other political parties in his coalition government , Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti stressed that the two men , Mohammed Issa Abbas and Youssouf Ahmed Saad , had secured release about two years early as part of a general amnesty programme ; it was " fantasy " , he said , to suggest that their freeing only two weeks before the outbreak of hostilities in the Gulf was aimed at protecting Italy from terrorist attacks . |
| 3 | At Thanksgiving 1985 , Bush sent North a postcard thanking him for his work ‘ with the hostage thing and in Central America ’ and exhorting him to get some turkey ; North read it out at his trial four years later as evidence of approval , but it was all delightfully vague . |
| 4 | When Thompson joined Goldsmiths ' twenty years ago as head of painting , succeeding Andrew Forge , he immediately set to work amalgamating the painting and sculpture departments into a homogenous fine art course , believing that the old craft distinctions between the media were philosophically untenable . |
| 5 | Vietnam will not sleep — either in world events , or in the minds of those sent out there twenty-five years ago as war correspondents . |
| 6 | It also approved the partial privatization of the federal government bank , the Commonwealth Bank , established 78 years earlier as Labor 's first step into public ownership . |
| 7 | The controls , which laid down a minimum deposit for certain goods , restricted the amount of the finance charge which could be made and prohibited finance charges altogether for others , lingered on for a few years afterwards as part of what was still more or less a strictly managed war-time economy . |
| 8 | Network has just released ‘ The Passage ’ , recorded a year ago as part of a projected Model 500 album . |
| 9 | Almost all undergraduates studying a foreign language in Higher Education are required to spend one academic year abroad as part of their course . |