Example sentences of "year ago [vb past] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further to your item about a director 's benefit in kind , ( see ACCOUNTANCY , October 1992 , p 79 ) my client is a director of a private family company that some years ago purchased a villa on a complex in Portugal . |
| 2 | I had been having trouble with arthritis for years , and nine years ago had a hip replacement . |
| 3 | Not since Greta all those years ago had a woman seemed to him so desirable . |
| 4 | An explosion of methane gas which seeped up from the ground in Derbyshire 5 years ago demolished a pensioner 's house . |
| 5 | But it was the IHSM who five years ago produced a report suggesting that new ways of delivering health care should be explored including separating providers from purchasers . |
| 6 | The County Council I full well remember some four years ago made a decision that once a site had been in peril , once a decision was made it should n't be brought back into the arena again . |
| 7 | Jaguar , taken over by Ford two years ago made a £66m loss in 1990 . |
| 8 | Mr Kinnock again declined to give his personal view about electoral reform lest the debate he initiated within the party two years ago became a test of loyalty to his leadership . |
| 9 | Magistrates in Wrexham where Fletcher launched cut-price car import firm Intercar ( UK ) five years ago signed a warrant for his extradition on deception charges . |
| 10 | Funded by the Merseyside Development Corporation the NLBA is a sister organisation to the city 's Parliament Street Industrialists Association which two years ago celebrated a 73pc reduction in crime after they coordinated to defeat criminal activity . |
| 11 | Two years ago completed a manuscript about his family 's life during this period which he hopes will someday be published . |
| 12 | Dennis years ago did a deal with by we had so many days a year and any extra you applied for them , there was never any trouble . |
| 13 | … with GCSE we 're plumping for having an external examiner to come into school , because the school years ago did a Mode 3 CSE , where all the kids put up an exhibition . |