Example sentences of "so [adj] years [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no evidence , however , to show that it was not until 844 that Molla Yegan gave up his offices , that he did not , for example , do so some years earlier and either live in retirement in Bursa or go on an extended visit to the Hijaz lasting some years . |
| 2 | And Goldberg , in his pad : Dear Harsnet , it may surprise you to hear that after all these years I am finally at work transcribing the notes you entrusted to me so many years ago , with a view to eventually publishing them . |
| 3 | Above all , I do not believe the people of Britain want to see our constitutional monarchy , the ‘ eternal jewel ’ with which our political liberties are bound up , brought into danger or contention by the deceptive device once adopted so ill-advisedly so many years ago for a purpose that is past . |
| 4 | But once before , so many years ago , he had turned to meet God and fell into the hands of the Devil . |
| 5 | As I stood there my mind raced back to that time so many years ago when I had heard my mother say , ‘ I do n't love you , Nicky . ’ |
| 6 | Not so many years ago parents would have thought nothing of their children walking two or three miles to school in the morning and back again in the afternoon . |
| 7 | In particular , if a historical perspective enters into the survey it may well be quite invaluable to interview old people for their memories of the community as it was so many years ago . |
| 8 | Not so many years ago , museums were definitely rather sombre and sobering places . |
| 9 | She rocked the baby in her arms , refusing to put her down for a minute , and she sang snatches of lullabies she remembered her mother singing so many years ago . |
| 10 | He looked into Gorelli 's face , the face he 'd never seen , the face he 'd only heard , and so many years ago . |
| 11 | so many years ago : |
| 12 | Not so many years ago , this would have been a non-question : Christians believed that the Star was one of God 's miracles , while scientists , by and large , believed that the whole story was a myth . |
| 13 | Tabitha liked it well enough as it was , though she remembered better days , not so many years ago , when the jazz bands in the bodegas had been almost loud enough to drown the furious rattle of the old spice prospectors playing mah-jongg . |
| 14 | ‘ Not so many years ago it would have taken me a little longer myself . |
| 15 | That incident so many years ago when she had been punished for the supposed loss of the ring was etched indelibly in her mind . |
| 16 | Do you know , Hugh , what the sortes sent to Roger of Salisbury , who fell into Stephen 's displeasure not so many years ago and died disgraced ? |
| 17 | He remembered the words of his grandfather , so many years ago : |
| 18 | Not just that we found him so many years ago . |
| 19 | Anyway , on that spring day so many years ago , I lounged around , teasing and humouring the girl . |
| 20 | Now in that room at Fontainebleau so many years ago , I studied Francis but my eyes were drawn to that bloody ring which sparkled on the fourth finger of his left hand . |
| 21 | ‘ I followed you both the way I used to do so many years ago . |
| 22 | Not so many years ago , a terrified young Kurdish man from Turkey sought asylum in this country . |
| 23 | I can not tell you … so many years ago … the happiest time of my life . ’ |
| 24 | so that 's not so many years ago . |
| 25 | What had been done in Outremer so many years ago had been evil ! |
| 26 | Fitzormonde licked his lips and closed his eyes tightly , trying to remember events in that sun-drenched city so many years ago . |
| 27 | Thirdly , both murders are certainly linked with Sir Ralph 's dreadful betrayal of Bartholomew Burghgesh in Cyprus so many years ago . ’ |
| 28 | He could then go home , absolved from his part in that terrible crime committed so many years ago . |
| 29 | If Fitzormonde is to be believed , we know the reason for the murders : Burghgesh 's death on that unfortunate ship in the Middle Sea so many years ago . |
| 30 | Someone who knows about the great act of betrayal so many years ago . |