Example sentences of "[adj] year [adv] and [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Geoff , an old fashioned sort of polliss , retired on health grounds a few years back and we still have n't bought him a pint . |
| 2 | On the north side of this square , and just across from the famous 13th century well , is the Hotel Leon Bianco which we picked for Citalia guests three years ago and which immediately found favour amongst them . |
| 3 | The wild aurochs , as big as a modern English Longhorn , was widespread in Britain while there was still a landbridge linking the land to the Continent after the retreat of the glaciers of the last Ice Age , but it died out here during the Bronze Age 3,000 years ago and it never reached Ireland . |
| 4 | That was twenty thousand years ago and we still ca n't forget . |
| 5 | In one scene of this comedy about university revue artists meeting in acrimony ten years later and which also features comedienne Rita Rudner , Branagh as a once-promising writer reduced to penning an American TV sitcom for his wife had to become drunk at a New Year 's Party . |
| 6 | For part of the way we linked arms with Fred Lebow who thought up the race 23 years ago and who now has brain cancer and wanted to run it . |
| 7 | I used to fish there with some friends several years ago and we rarely caught less than 100lbs in a session . |
| 8 | I 've been working here for seven years now and I really enjoy my job . |