Example sentences of "year [adv] when " in BNC.
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| 61 | Exactly the same point was made by Soane 30 years later when attacking the application of grandiose Egyptian detail to tiny shops . |
| 62 | ‘ Childbirth ’ our local priest called it , but I did n't really understand what he was on about until several years later when I came up against the problem again . |
| 63 | Oh God , must be six possibly seven years now when I took the policy out originally I think . |
| 64 | Tennant , a former Scottish international , created a stir four years ago when she switched allegiance and opted to play for England in international competition . |
| 65 | At the age of 29 , Durie must be wondering how much longer she has left to get hooked on that habit which she toyed with briefly six years ago when she reached the lofty heights of the world 's top five . |
| 66 | Whitaker may well have parted with a horse of remarkable talent four years ago when he sold U2 to the Edwards family in Shropshire . |
| 67 | His mission had been planned two years ago when he worked well with stablemate Balthus , the 1987 Cambridgeshire winner , and Glover promises he has something else in the yard to continue the trend in two years . |
| 68 | The nearest he has come to an England place since was three years ago when he broke a thumb within 24 hours of being selected to face India . |
| 69 | The pair had met two years ago when Hardy scored a convincing 10-round win in a non-title bout . |
| 70 | After the children grew up , the stories remained in a drawer until three years ago when Mr Driscoll , who owned a mail order business , decided to publish them . |
| 71 | Kissin , aged 18 , came to prominence a couple of years ago when he appeared to great acclaim at the Berlin Festival . |
| 72 | As one said , what Easton has , unlike many areas , is ‘ ordinary civil policing ’ ( FN 16/11/87 , p. 6 ) , so that there is a continuity with policing in Easton before the current troubles began : ‘ I was in Easton years ago when it was the old station , though basically policing at Easton has n't changed from when I was here years ago . |
| 73 | To lighten the proceedings he told us of an incident some years ago when there had still been a whaling station in the town . |
| 74 | Mr Brandt , who was mayor of West Berlin 28 years ago when East Berlin put up the Wall and who stood next to Mr Kennedy during his famous speech , said the barbed wire and wall were ‘ against the flow of history ’ , but added that it should remain as an ‘ an historical monstrosity ’ . |
| 75 | This is all a huge improvement on 10 years ago when the children practised their chess in a two-roomed flat with one wall reeking with damp . |
| 76 | He compared it with the scheme 30 years ago when Britain built tall chimneys to disperse pollution over a wide area . |
| 77 | Nine years ago when the pair met in Montreal , Leonard taunted his opponent to the limits of frustration and Duran walked out after eight rounds calling : ‘ No mas . ’ |
| 78 | Most have stemmed from evidence provided by Boesky three years ago when he was caught making millions on hot tips from his network of investment bankers , lawyers and brokers . |
| 79 | The two companies had sought to have withdrawn undertakings given to the MMC 15 years ago when it last investigated their grip on cross-Channel routes . |
| 80 | ‘ To be honest , Clem , it started to go out twenty years ago when we failed to join the Common Market at the outset . |
| 81 | The Flowers arrived on the scene two years ago when their London Records LP , ‘ People ’ , became the biggest selling debut in Irish pop history . |
| 82 | She was nervous before stepping onto the set of Delinquents , just as she had been all those years ago when she did the rehearsals for The Henderson Kids . |
| 83 | There was a time years ago when I made the odd item of clothing and I have started designing stuff again now . |
| 84 | Royal Bank of Scotland a pioneer user of video conferencing seven years ago when its merger with Williams & Glyn 's forced it to split operations between London and Edinburgh now televises meetings with its Spanish alliance partners at Banco Santander in Madrid . |
| 85 | Marshall , 34 , who announced his retirement from international cricket after the World Cup , has signed a new contract with the county and will fill a gap created two years ago when Paul Terry stepped down as No 2 to Mark Nicholas . |
| 86 | As I stood there my mind raced back to that time so many years ago when I had heard my mother say , ‘ I do n't love you , Nicky . ’ |
| 87 | It was certainly done most effectively for one culture some years ago when Romeo and Juliet were transposed into the idiom of youth group clash in modern New York in West Side Story ( p. 95 ) . |
| 88 | Veronica Sive 's interest in photography began at university , 10 years ago when a friend suggested she ‘ look carefully through the lens , it 's a new world out there ’ . |
| 89 | The only disturbance to the peace of this natural sanctuary occurred 120 years ago when a spectacular railway was laid at a high level across the head of the valley ; this apart , Dentdale today is very much as it was three centuries ago , happily free from modern developments and well content to remain so . |
| 90 | Her mind brought her abruptly back to the present when she thought , that was until two years ago when Jessie left the Dame School . |