Example sentences of "[num] years [adv] [pron] had a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where I come from , erm most of the the the fish , the fishing part of the community , up until just two , three years ago we had a tradition of women 's working practices which were handed down for hundreds of years from the female side . |
| 2 | What about the Halal meat , in this county where three years ago we had a meeting and they decided that animals that were slaughtered without being stunned with sheer terror , who are allowed to bleed to death because this is what a particular group believed in and we did it . |
| 3 | Well I would say it 's , yes , better , cos mean with th with th these erm containers you see now I mean , we had about say ten years ago we had a man here he used to deal with the all general cargo , all loose cargo from Beirut and all the Mediterranean ports but course now you got the trouble there now that 's a , that 's a cargo that 's , what 's fell away . |
| 4 | Ten years ago she had a hernia operation . |
| 5 | 3 years ago she had a recurrence of symptoms . |
| 6 | But five years ago you had a good job , prospects , a nice house , money in the bank . |
| 7 | When he was jilted after five years together it had a devastating effect . |
| 8 | Yeah I mean we did insert actually in the Chairman 's statement a cautionary note about the credit announcement because two years ago we had a similar increase which in fact by the time we got to the end of the year had disappeared so we view it with a lot of caution is the answer if you ask me to be more precise I ca n't because we 've never really had a set of tax increases the like of which we face now any other questions ? |
| 9 | Solid drinking ‘ Two years ago I had a one-day relapse after a very long time of being sober . |
| 10 | In August 1910 she suffered a heart attack , and two years later she had a stroke which left her a paralysed cripple . |
| 11 | Standard English used to be restricted in this way : if we look at Standard English as an historical dialect , then we find that 200 years ago it had a much smaller number of speakers in England , and had nothing like the geographical spread it has nowadays . |