Example sentences of "of [pers pn] [num] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of this is tied up in grants , salaries and existing programmes , some of them five years long . |
| 2 | When Pound revised and expanded this to make The ABC of Reading ( the title is still a misnomer ) , he winkled out of it most of the anti-Englishness that had been present in the first version , when Pound was still smarting from what he took to be England 's rejection of him eight years before , in 1920 . |
| 3 | So here I publish a picture of him ten years ago when he was Junior Minister he is enjoying a marvellous a party at London 's Intercontinental Hotel . |
| 4 | It was an affliction rather than a gift , and I was to be healed of it two years later by what I believe was the power of Christ . |
| 5 | The whole idea has always been abhorrent to us , and we were rid of it 14 years ago in 1977 , when we voted to secede from South Africa and re-assist control over our own affairs . |
| 6 | The Queen was forced to strip him of it 13 years later . |
| 7 | Mr. Wilberforce and I agree that where we knew one instance of it thirty years ago , there are now a dozen or more . ’ |