Example sentences of "a [adj] year ago [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes a few years ago yu were seen as a weirdo |
| 2 | A few years ago they were making some of the best pop singles you could play on a jukebox : ‘ Something About You ’ , ‘ Leaving Me Now ’ , ‘ Lessons In Love ’ , all the kind of thing that you felt you were going to be sick of hearing before long but which still sounded good after the thousandth time . |
| 3 | ‘ Only a few years ago they were plenty of colliers playing rugby in Wales . |
| 4 | These are the new boys on the stylish restaurant scene — a few years ago they were few and far between . |
| 5 | Companies are keen to adopt the ‘ open ’ moniker simply for that purpose : how many suppliers these days describe themselves as open systems companies , when just a few years ago they would probably have sneered at the term . |
| 6 | Indonesia has large industries , recently developed in the country , and are exporting large quantities to saw mills , whereas a few years ago they were exporting to lots , they are now exporting saw wood and ply wood . |
| 7 | ‘ A few years ago we realised we had lost our way , ’ says The Economist UK marketing manager Chantal Hughes . |
| 8 | ‘ A few years ago we 'd be down the piano bar listening to … ’ |
| 9 | A few years ago we had rows all the time about politics but more recently we kept off the subject most of the time . |
| 10 | A few years ago we bought a company called who manufacture all the filters that we use . |
| 11 | A few years ago we hoped that a footpath would have been incorporated in the flood protection scheme . |
| 12 | ‘ A few years ago we thought the Butter Market could have been made into a little museum but it would have been difficult to cross the roads into it . ’ |
| 13 | But a few years ago we were at a session in a pub one night erm playing music and er there was about twenty of us and about two o'clock in the morning the police raided it and we all had our names taken and we were all up in court and we were all fined I think three pound for being er drinking after hours and Tony was drinking a cup of coffee . |
| 14 | Until a few years ago it was possible to stand on the incline , particularly in summer , without becoming the least aware that here once stood one of the most complex and sophisticated pieces of apparatus ever constructed on English canals , and the idea of two narrow boats going up while another pair came down would have been quite beyond belief . |
| 15 | Built just a few years ago it looks battle-scarred by usage and needs a good smartening up . |
| 16 | Once upon a time a few years ago it was realised that the costs of circuits from the Post Office to broadcast choral evensong ‘ live ’ easily outstripped the courtesy fees paid to the participants . |
| 17 | Only a few years ago it was a considerable achievement to fly a model helicopter at all . |
| 18 | Until a few years ago it had been clear that the courts would be prepared in such situations to exhibit a marked degree of ‘ tenderness ’ towards wives in such cases , greater tenderness in fact than would be applied to any other third party surety . |
| 19 | ‘ When Jefferson left Downton International a few years ago it certainly was n't of his own free will . |
| 20 | They went into a quiet period a few years ago it was very quiet erm but er yes they 're they 're going strong . |
| 21 | A few years ago it was not even included in some school Easter holidays . |
| 22 | A few years ago you wrote about the merits of sarkandas reed as a waggler material . |
| 23 | A few years ago you would not have caught me talking about underground publishing ; I have too many bad memories from the Seventies . |
| 24 | ‘ A few years ago you would niver have heard of such a thing . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ But until a few years ago you were chairman , Mr Glastonbury . ’ |
| 26 | A few years ago I wanted to invest in a new spindle moulder . |
| 27 | Emergency wanted A few years ago I wrote a little book called Discovering Backpacking . |
| 28 | For instance , a few years ago I studied paul Simon 's music quite extensively . |
| 29 | ‘ A few years ago I gave a lecture at Preston Polytechnic and afterwards nine black girls , some of them with toddlers , stayed behind and we began to talk . |
| 30 | A few years ago I saw a modification with two small hydraulic servos , one fitted to the front and one fitted to the rear brake pipes , ahead of the brake failure device . |