Example sentences of "[was/were] many years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let me add that the latter incidents were many years ago . |
| 2 | Most of the current generation of older people were born at a time when the motor car was an unusual sight on the streets , aeroplanes were rarely seen in the skies , telephones were rare , radio and television were many years from invention . |
| 3 | These thoughts could always be called up , as they were many years later in his attack on Churchill . |
| 4 | She lived in a small house near ours and seemed very old to me ; but that was many years ago . |
| 5 | It was many years later that my foreboding dream came true . |
| 6 | The story of the lift does not end here , for it was many years before it was finally cut up and sold for scrap . |
| 7 | It was many years since Selwyn 's wife had persuaded him that it was not good manners to pick his teeth in company , but his lips still made the motions of mouthing a toothpick . |
| 8 | Labels were shifted about , the Higher School Certificate became the General Certificate of Education at Advanced Level , but it was many years before new pressures distorted the ancient simplicities . |
| 9 | It was many years before the collection agencies and the record companies trusted each other . |
| 10 | Some readers may remember attending the building when it was St Mary 's Junior School , indeed many nostalgic , even misty-eyed visits are made to the building by people who remember the school as it was many years ago . |
| 11 | These five cars received the least modifications of any of the South Metropolitan fleet and in fact it was many years before they were even repainted , running in deep chocolate and ivory , with only the fleet numbers and badges altered . |
| 12 | He was many years her senior , as you will be aware — I doubt not you know the rest . ’ |
| 13 | Crocheted antimacassars graced the backs of all the chairs although it was many years since a gentleman with pomade on his hair had sat in one of them . |
| 14 | Though the theory was many years ahead of its time it was almost wholly guesswork and rested on no satisfactory contemporary experimental evidence . |
| 15 | In fact , although he accepted the commission , Mozart never completed all the pieces , later confessing that he could n't stand the flute ( but that was many years before The Magic Flute ) . |
| 16 | Remember this was many years ago , so the magazine in question was a general craft magazine , not one especially written for machine knitting — those were very thin on the ground at that tine , in fact there was only one in this country . |
| 17 | It was many years since the Deputy Under Secretary had taken such a holiday ; his previous inclination would have been — towards fishing the west country salmon rivers or stalking the Scottish moors . |
| 18 | The engineering capability and traffic demands meant that an airfield was many years off — the float-equipped ‘ bush ’ aircraft was to have many years of sovereignty in Ontario . |
| 19 | It was many years since the assassin 's eyes had taken the pleasure they did now , seeing him . |
| 20 | So it was many years later , in 1930 , that a writer of light-hearted detective stories called Anthony Berkeley proclaimed that the art should change from puzzles about time , place and opportunity into puzzles about motive and character , and produced a book , The Second Shot , written from the murderer 's point of view . |
| 21 | The Cages had fallen silent as Minch told her story , for it was many years since she had recounted it and then only briefly . |
| 22 | But that was many years ago when they were still juveniles and one day she disappeared and none of the eagles there has since had the full power of a Callanish eagle . |
| 23 | It was many years since he 'd had anything in common with his foster family and she would have expected him to use his sojourn in America as a tactful method of ending the association , of breaking ties that could have no conceivable advantage for him . |
| 24 | Er , well it was all mixed up , it was all mixed up , the funny thing is , er whilst he was many years my senior , er I joined the communist party before he did . |
| 25 | Though Bede considered Oswald 's brother and successor , Oswiu , to have been the sixth of the overlords of the Anglo-Saxons ( HE 11 , 5 ) , it is clear that it was many years before Oswiu could securely establish himself as king even over all the northern Angles let alone as overlord of his southern neighbours and that this latter position was very short-lived . |
| 26 | She had made her reputation excavating the abandoned Ice Warrior citadels on Mars … at was many years ago in her own personal time-scale , many years in the future of the era she was in . |
| 27 | This was many years ago now ab ten years ago I guess , so I went and saw and of course , erm Mr was dead and his son was running it and had sold his shares . |
| 28 | He once told me not to be afraid as my death was many years off and would come in a way I least expected . |
| 29 | He says he 'd consider being a care worker , but his experience in the army was many years ago , so he may not qualify any more . |
| 30 | But but of course this was many years ago . |