Example sentences of "[det] [num] [noun pl] [conj] i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was in the summer , some six months after I had arrived in Paris , that I determined to earn a little money . |
| 2 | It is some five years since I worked with Mr Edell in his previous incarnation as a lawyer , but he struck me as a man who would do the necessary . |
| 3 | But the wind was behind me and each wave picked up the boat and surged her ahead , so that I tied up at the pier some fifteen hours after I had left , a little tired but satisfied that another small gap in our knowledge of birds had been filled . |
| 4 | Yet some twelve months after I had graduated , I was now having my first interview with my chief constable who had no idea what I had studied or what result I had achieved . |
| 5 | The grammar schools once provided the necessary culture of learning , as well as specific instruction , for students from under privileged homes , as we see in Judith Grossman 's Her Own Terms , or Anthony Burgess 's autobiographical recollection of reading English at Manchester University in the late thirties ( some twenty years before I started teaching there myself ) . |
| 6 | After a simple pre-take off litany ( minus the F for flaps ) which should be familiar to any Cessna 150 pilot , the Aircoupe accelerated down Halfpenny Green 's Runway 34 in a formation take-off , becoming airborne in a few hundred feet before I had to throttle back to keep in station with the hard-climbing 172 camera ship . |
| 7 | The ground became firm for a few hundred yards and I ran , my eyes taking in every dot on the horizon , looking for that familiar yellow speck , but I missed seeing a sandy hollow right under my nose . |