Example sentences of "and [adj] years ago [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | is the knowledge that if er , we 'd been talking about them two hundred and fifty years ago we 'd be put on trial and probably burnt to death . |
| 2 | Travel agents are now a familiar sight in towns and cities across the world but one hundred and fifty years ago there were very few . |
| 3 | One hundred and fifty years ago it did not exist , but at the opening of the present decade the UK alone claimed to generate a thousand new jobs a week in the travel and tourism sector . |
| 4 | Okay , yeah better transport technology a hundred and fifty years ago it was impossible t erm , to transport meat across the Atlantic it 's er , very straightforward now so the advent of different types of , er , transport technology and improved transport technology erm , has made tr , facilitated trade okay . |
| 5 | So a hundred and fifty years ago you would have the stagecoach going past here . |
| 6 | Nice to speak to you , erm , I 'd just like to say that er , take me now as a , as a normal chap from England who looked across right through his life at Russia as the big bad bear and eight years ago I had the opportunity of going over there , just an ordinary chap and er , of course , there 's so much about the Soviet Union we do n't know , we did , we , erm , for instance we were over there in 1982 when they were celebrating sixty years of the incorporation of the saints into the Soviet Union . |
| 7 | Thirty and Forty years ago they played to packed houses up and down the country … now they 're doing it again |
| 8 | As a student at Cambridge he played squash for the University and three years ago he was set to take up stock car racing . |
| 9 | Rob Wilson 's courtesy and kindness is legendary and many years ago he indirectly helped my mother to hook her first salmon . |
| 10 | And 10,000 years ago they left apple remains to carbonize around their Swiss and Italian lakeside homes . |
| 11 | And ten years ago he had been hurt worst of all when the Zionist Air Force , the E-16s and the E-15s , had come to Tuwaithah out of the setting sun to put down 16 tons of explosive ordnance onto the Osirak reactor . |
| 12 | A stroke in 1976 started his health problems , and five years ago he moved to Sussex . |
| 13 | He was a very clever scientist , and five years ago he and Dorian had been good friends . |
| 14 | And 40 years ago you — or rather your semi-erect ancestors — were asking us why we did n't just change our name to New Accordion Express . |
| 15 | Excavations have uncovered positive proof that between 10,000 and 25,000 years ago it was a wild beast 's den with bones of extinct animals having been found in the stalagmites on the cave floor . |
| 16 | No doubt my loved ones are already laughing heartily at the thought that I could have anything useful to say to a secretary of state , and two years ago I too would have discounted the idea that a politically damp , small ‘ c ’ conservative would ever be in a position to offer advice on competition and free markets to a Tory government . |
| 17 | ‘ He 's thirty-six , extremely wealthy and two years ago he inherited the title . |
| 18 | It 's Lord Blandford 's second trip to Pentonville … there was a drugs sentence in 1986 … and two years ago he was sent to Oxford prison for driving offences . |
| 19 | His family has been involved in braiding and ropework for more than a century , and four years ago he came to Newtonmore to set up a small , high quality production facility for climbing ropes . |