Example sentences of "years [adv] [verb] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1945 he became MP for Coventry East , and nine years later married Anne McDougall , the daughter of a senior manager of the aluminium company whose arrival in Banbury had brought a measure of prosperity to the town in the years of the Depression . |
| 2 | Three years after his return to railway work he became deputy chief mechanical engineer of the newly formed London , Midland and Scottish Railway in 1923 and two years later succeeded George Hughes as chief mechanical engineer . |
| 3 | Some 270 years later came Derek Pringle ! |
| 4 | But it was Casaubon who fifty years later imposed Polybius as the expert in political life , as a far better guide than the fashionable Tacitus . |
| 5 | She came to live in Madeira in 1880 and two years later opened St George 's High School in the Palace of São Pedro ( where the Municipal Museum is now housed ) . |
| 6 | The high standard of Eadberht 's coinage declined before his reign ended , but these years immediately following Eadberht 's abdication were not so disruptive of Northumbrian political life that Aethelwald was unable to mint . |
| 7 | Was n't it that the Australians who , who about twenty odd years ago had Britain test all of their erm nuclear weapons |
| 8 | And a strike in nickel mines in Canada a few years ago affected Britain seriously because they were by far the country 's biggest supplier . |
| 9 | And England manager Taylor , whose departure five years ago signalled Watford 's decline as a footballing force , was there to witness their greatest night since those days . |
| 10 | A pioneer in this department is Ed Kienholz , who some years ago became Ed and Nancy Kienholz and not just on the marriage certificate . |
| 11 | The most dramatic defection from its board was that of Martin Sorrell , its former finance director , who left about three years ago to join WPP , a small industrial company , which he transformed into the world 's second largest advertising group , principally with takeovers of J Walter Thompson and Ogilvy & Mather , two of the leading US agencies . |
| 12 | Fifteen years ago Ally MacLeod said we 'd bring home medals from Argentina and reneged on his promise spectacularly . |
| 13 | A family drama five years ago awakened Steilmann to the ecological crisis — his daughter had taken a strong dental painkiller and was close to death because of an allergic reaction . |
| 14 | A LEGACY bequeathed more than 50 years ago to help Birkenhead is at last giving benefit to its elderly folk . |
| 15 | Smart 's financial intervention six years ago saved Hartlepool from liquidation , but this summer the tide turned . |
| 16 | British Steel 's job-shedding experience of ten years ago provides Ostrava 's industry with a particularly appropriate model . |
| 17 | The idea had come from a short documentary I saw years ago called Werner Herzog Eats His Show . |
| 18 | It was made and first broadcast 25 years ago starring Patrick McGoohan in the title role and as Executive Producer . |
| 19 | Many many years ago did Shirley Bassey . |
| 20 | A few years earlier Aung San might possibly have taken to the jungle , bandit or resistance fighter according to one 's viewpoint , known only within a few miles of his own home . |
| 21 | Between 1019 and 1023 , Champagne fell into the hands of Eudes II , the count of Blois and Chartres , who had a few years earlier annexed Sancerre . |
| 22 | Having for years either aped Hollywood or presented us with cheery Cockney families braving the Blitz , a whole slew of films came along ( A Taste Of Honey , Saturday Night And Sunday Morning , etc ) that simultaneously both oddly dissected and glorified the northern working class experience of the early '60s . |
| 23 | He was in command when the treachery of Guy Burgess and Donald McLean , George Blake and Kim Philby was uncovered , scandals which for years seriously damaged Britain 's relations with the American CIA . |