Example sentences of "a [adj] years ago [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few years ago manuscript evidence was discovered that Torriano 's copy of de' Dondi 's clock was still at his house in Toledo in the seventeenth century , and it is therefore unlikely that , as formerly thought , it perished when the convent of San Yuste with its art treasures was set on fire by the French in 1809 . |
| 2 | ‘ I was amazed , I could get to places with cameras which just a few years ago Russians would n't have been allowed to visit , ’ he said . |
| 3 | A few years ago Jo would have been unable to resist a put-down , but the Hollywood brat had grown up and knew how and when to be gracious . |
| 4 | It seems that a few years ago Mrs Brissett 's daughter 's husband left her and she had trouble finding a job and had no money … and Harriet helped her find a job somewhere . |
| 5 | When they opened the ground at a few years ago Bill was still alive , and er we could go and visit , go into the ground and go and have a look round and it was open to the , the general public . |
| 6 | A few years ago Dr Palcic , Dr Lam and their colleagues started a company called Xillix to build machines to do just that . |
| 7 | 7 & 8 A few years ago Sally Baring of Borderline went into an antique shop and left with an 1895 fabric block . |
| 8 | Vincent said that a few years ago watch batteries had to be renewed every year . |
| 9 | A few years ago Claythorpe mill was in a state of dilapidation ; a sad , neglected relic of a past long forgotten . |
| 10 | A few years ago Saunderson was a tele-communications student at the local East Michigan University . |
| 11 | The Japanese are number one in terms of imports in the US ceramics market , whereas a few years ago Wedgwood was clearly number one . |
| 12 | He said a few years ago patients could be ‘ fairly guaranteed ’ a bed on the unit . |
| 13 | He said a few years ago patients could be ‘ fairly guaranteed ’ a bed on the unit if they needed one . |
| 14 | He said : ‘ A few years ago Graham Taylor , then at Aston Villa , rang and said I should join the old organisation . |
| 15 | A few years ago Japanese-Americans were compensated for being interned during the second world war , and some ( mostly white ) people have begun to point out that blacks have yet to be compensated for centuries of slavery . |
| 16 | A few years ago Flanders and Swan wrote a patriotic song for this country . |
| 17 | It is interesting that only a few years ago Mr Albert Baker of Baker Bros. , Upper Halling , paid the Vicar part of the cost of wood he had cut in Halling woods . |
| 18 | A few years ago Glen Robins was unemployed and living from hand to mouth . |
| 19 | Maybe a few years ago people would have disapproved . |
| 20 | Two and a half years ago Christopher , of College Road North , Blundellsands , was a prize pupil at St Mary 's College in Crosby . |
| 21 | Two and a half years ago Camel Laird started a campaign to gain access to the intervention funding and because of the total lack of any sort of industrial policy by this government , and their refusal to support the Camel Laird application to the E E C , next month will see the closure of Camel Lairds which will lead to a loss of skills that amounts almost to a criminal act on the part of this government , who seem prepared to allow this country to become a skill-free zone in order to drive down wages and conditions to a rate comparable with some Third World countries . |
| 22 | Over a thousand years ago bronzes were being produced in the style of the early pieces and given an artificial patina . |
| 23 | A hundred years ago Professor Charles Hodge , a Princeton theologian , put it very clearly in his systematic theology : |
| 24 | A hundred years ago people brushed with toothpaste made from burnt eggshells or crumbled porcelain . |
| 25 | A hundred years ago Suttons listed 44 varieties , including mixtures . |