Example sentences of "[det] years ago that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I recall some years ago that a young postgraduate student who was designing a schedule containing a lot of attitude questions had his schedule internally tested at this stage by a number of people and practically every question he had put was a double one . |
| 2 | I have always had a slightly suspicious attitude to information on road accidents since the Road Research Laboratory ( I think it was ) , proved some years ago that if you were killed in an accident at any age over forty , you were doing the country an economic favour . |
| 3 | Despite agreement some years ago that seven sites around Britain 's coast needed protection , only one — Lundy Island — has been declared a Marine Nature Reserve so far , writes Dr Madeleine Havard , WWF 's Marine Conservation Officer . |
| 4 | For Anne Barr it all began in church , for it was there , some years ago that she first met her husband to be . |
| 5 | William Golding 's Lord of the Flies reminded us some years ago that children are far from immune to the virus of cruelty and irrationality that is latent in all human beings . |
| 6 | So it was with some surprise a few years ago that our attention was drawn from the dull French film noir onscreen to the back of the cinema , where a couple were resolving a lovers ' squabble . |
| 7 | Submerged plants rarely attract attention except when they are a nuisance as in the rotting infestation of sea lettuce a few years ago that produced enough hydrogen sulphide gas to discolour housepaint and tarnish silverware in the unfortunate town of Deale , in Maryland . |
| 8 | You will remember that a decision was taken a few years ago that we would lay our track to the standard British gauge of 4′ 8½″ rather than to the Irish gauge of 5′ 3″ . |
| 9 | It is only a few years ago that we were being warned about the arrival of another ice age , for heavens ' sake ! |
| 10 | It was only a few years ago that cheques and cash were the only means of payment available . |
| 11 | ‘ Ah , ’ he said at the finish , ‘ there was a rumour a few years ago that some Russo had managed to get to the top of the mountain . ’ |
| 12 | Well I think an awful lot of people think of Oxfam and think of the shops , er and the shops have been terribly important to us for such a long time , but we 've found a few years ago that er people who , er were asked said that they would give money to Oxfam , but that they were n't necessarily always asked . |
| 13 | You see , I had a dream many years ago that the opera-houses of the world would make many more exchanges . |
| 14 | ‘ If he does , it would mean that I 'm still playing at 40 and I said many years ago that I felt that was possible . |
| 15 | I realised many years ago that I was not a studio painter . |
| 16 | Hans Keller pointed out many years ago that , while the three preludial " interludes " are broadly speaking of a generic nature , setting the scene and mood for when the curtain rises , the three mid-act interludes have more specifically psychological connotations , telling us something about the state of the dramatic action and particularly about Grimes himself . |
| 17 | I was er er there was something that I got told many years ago that I |
| 18 | I read many years ago that houses are part of the really the last true free market |
| 19 | Ladies and gentlemen , he would say , Ladies and gentlemen , now it gives me very great pleasure to introduce the woman who is responsible for holding this whole show together ; the woman who first understood all those years ago that there was crying need for a place where all you lovely people could gather of an evening , the one that we all know and love , and so … would you please welcome on stage , the very lovely , the very talented … once again … our very own … and sometimes he would fade out , and not even say her name , and he would pause , he would make us wait , he would suspend his elegant hands over the keys ; and then , in that silence , he would play the first notes of the actual song itself . |
| 20 | Daube argued several years ago that ‘ it is time to revise our legal construction … of surgery in general ’ , and criticized the fact that it was still considered an assault rendered lawful by consent . |