Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] four years " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Ruth had been married to Connor 's brother Sean , and her first child — a fine boy called Danny — had been born four years ago . |
| 2 | He turns more fruitfully to plays , becomes writer in residence at the Royal Court , adapts Brecht for the RSC and Kafka for Radio 3 , turns out two screenplays which Stephen Frears films , is nominated for an Oscar for one of them , and finally succeeds , in his mid-thirties , in getting a novel published ( its adolescent predecessors have been burnt four years earlier ) . |
| 3 | A LONELY bachelor who died in his bath has been found four years later . |
| 4 | She had been served four years of a life sentence for the murder of her baby son . |
| 5 | But it 's a problem accentuated in a white ruled society that for decades regarded migrant blacks as temporary sojourners in urban areas , and little was done to accommodate them until influx control laws were removed four years ago . |
| 6 | When the designs for I M Pei 's steel-and-glass pyramid at the Louvre were unveiled four years ago , there was a running battle between police and conservationists in the hallowed courtyards of the rambling museum . |
| 7 | An even keener sense of anticipation is developed four years later in Hepworth 's Rescued by Rover ( 1905 ) , about a dog 's role in rescuing a kidnapped child . |
| 8 | John Fordham on the Miles Davis session it 's taken four years to release and the week 's other albums Twisting , teasing trumpet Jazz . |
| 9 | His two eldest , William ( 19 ) and Thomas ( 16 ) and even Richard ( 14 ) had all been described four years earlier , in the 1841 census , as miners . |
| 10 | And as the Chief Officer , Edwin Kerr , told a conference on teacher education in 1976 , ‘ if a meeting on teacher education had been held four years ago , the Council would not have been invited to attend ’ . |
| 11 | The Catering Guild , a Division of the TM Group , Europe 's largest independent refreshment vending company , was formed four years ago with a view to providing a professional catering service combined with a fresh approach to the provision of staff meals . |
| 12 | The Friend Teesside group was formed four years ago to provide a counselling and advice service and last year received 597 calls for help . |
| 13 | But Wisconsin has a hate-crimes law , which doubles the sentence for attacks based on race , colour , disability , religion , ancestry or sexual orientation ; so Mr Mitchell was given four years . |
| 14 | He was fortunate to have been accepted as a member of the new customs syndicate in 1667 before Clarendon 's fall deprived him of his patron ; but the lease was cancelled four years later , when the farmers sought guarantees against the heavy defalcations to be expected in the imminent Dutch war . |
| 15 | The system was installed four years ago as an experiment and has been monitored ever since . |
| 16 | It was written four years ago by Neil , Lea , John and Charlie Heather and is based on their teenage experiences . |
| 17 | The inference which might be drawn from this analysis was that Eliot himself had conceived a homosexual passion for just such a young man and , when the article was reprinted four years after Eliot 's death , it was suggested to be Jean Verdenal , the Frenchman whom Eliot had met in Paris when he was a student there and to whom , after his death in the First World War , he dedicated Prufrock and Other Observations . |
| 18 | A sale of Impressionist and Modern art in Madrid on 24 March was the least successful of any sale organised by Edmund Peel & Asociados since the Spanish auction house was founded four years ago . |
| 19 | Motor Safari , based in north Wales , was founded four years ago by Peter and Heather Morgan to provide training for such motorists . |
| 20 | The National University was closed four years ago by the army . |
| 21 | Margaret Llewelyn Davies was adamant that in no circumstances would the Guild surrender its independence and the branches raised sufficient funds to carry on the Guild 's work until a compromise was reached four years later . |
| 22 | That much was proved four years ago with Australia taking the Ashes 4–0 after losing the opening one-dayer at Old Trafford by 95 runs . |
| 23 | It was revived four years later when they ran into each other again in the unromantic setting of a Greenwich Village laundromat . |
| 24 | And since the custom was revived four years ago the cider crop has never been better . |
| 25 | Manchester United were convinced he was finished four years ago and were happy to let Villa take him — along with the personal problems which also contributed to his departure from Old Trafford . |
| 26 | ‘ Project waterhole ’ was begun four years ago . |
| 27 | This view was endorsed four years later by Faith in the City . |
| 28 | Die Hard 's action sequences won rave reviews when it was released four years ago . |
| 29 | The Trust was launched four years ago and an original £50 would now be worth £70.50 . |