Example sentences of "just [art] few years ago " in BNC.
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1 | Built just a few years ago it looks battle-scarred by usage and needs a good smartening up . |
2 | They would not have been contemplated just a few years ago . |
3 | Gedge recognises the irony of now being part of the property owning class he opposed just a few years ago . |
4 | Who would have thought , with all this talk of millions to be made by gene juggling , that just a few years ago genetic engineering was considered to be so dangerous that one small accident could unleash upon the world a virulent plague that would make the black death look like an outbreak of summer flu ? |
5 | Even the currently flourishing Pinnacle Distribution did a kamikaze act just a few years ago , decimating the indie scene . |
6 | Just a few years ago these beautiful creatures faced being clubbed to death by hunters , but thanks to pressure from wildlife organisations , they have been spared . |
7 | ‘ 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | Outcome in early treated subjects with phenylketonuria is not as good as was thought just a few years ago and is much more closely associated with the quality of blood phenylalanine control at all ages than previously recognised . |
10 | It was his soft eyes that had put her at ease the first time she met him , when she timidly knocked at his door just a few years ago , the evening when Fred employed a helper and found his future wife . |
11 | With LASMO producing around 185,000 barrels of oil equivalent every day of the year , our current revenues for the year are certainly lower than those anticipated just a few years ago . |
12 | There were two constables now in Frizingley , she 'd heard , since Sir Robert Peel had created his " peelers ' or his " bobbies ' as everybody was calling them , just a few years ago . |
13 | There were no hip replacements available just a few years ago . |
14 | Just a few years ago he complained about the exact opposite — that the provisions for the community charge in Scotland were in a separate Bill from those for England and Wales . |
15 | Watch out for Val Piriou , a young French designer who came to England just a few years ago unable to speak English . |
16 | Machines that were seen to be at the forefront of technology just a few years ago are now readily replaced and cast-off with little or no second-hand value . |
17 | Just a few years ago , it was raised from 4p , so there 's been quite a big increase already . |
18 | Just a few years ago , he used to work in a bank . |
19 | That seems a far cry from just a few years ago when the only diesels were lorries , buses and the occasional taxi . |
20 | But the pressure is on to re-create past glories , to think big like the extraordinary Grand Hotel in East Berlin , built just a few years ago . |
21 | It did , just a few years ago , it was a good . |