Example sentences of "[vb base] some year [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So to my mind , er the , the people dare dance should have been yourselves er I mean some years ago where your jobs are very secure , you knew that you were likely to see the end of the term in e e employed . |
| 2 | I expect you know he has no love for you … your reneging on the Munich contract some years ago meant several of his singers lost work . |
| 3 | It was decided that the British should move forward , as agreed with the French High Command some years earlier , to latch on to the extreme left wing of the French Army : at this time General Charles Lanrezac 's Fifth Army . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I remember some years ago being called by a man who told me he had just now heard things for the first time in the Beethoven Fifth . |
| 6 | I vividly remember some years ago , sitting in a private room in Washington DC , expressing this to a high official in the White House . |
| 7 | Now remember some years ago , and I remember this , that we said that it would inadvisable to collect rain water off a new felt roof . |
| 8 | I remember some years ago sharing a few dinner dates with a young lady who turned out to be one of Prince Charles 's old friends . |
| 9 | Cadbury wisely backed out of the US market some years ago . |
| 10 | He carried a bronze-bladed spear and a heavy Saxon long sword , which he had won in forest combat some years before . |
| 11 | But his lady stole the scene ; and those who remembered the few lines in the newspapers about Dinah Asshe some years ago stowed them , charitably , in the backs of their minds . |
| 12 | One of his specialities is a droning refrain , performed I think some years ago on one of those Saturday morning comedy-pop-and-hobbies programmes for children , in which a long-haired tennis-player with a head band gives out with his sporting autobiography . |
| 13 | I spent a perplexing evening in a Georgia bar some years ago endeavouring to persuade a local that I could NOT have driven from London . |
| 14 | Thus , to give one case example in ten thousand that spring to mind , no psychiatrist in his right mind would pay credence or even attention to the findings , as uncovered by Hans Eysenck some years ago , that patients undergoing psychoanalysis have an improvement rate of 44 per cent , those subject to the effects of other psychotherapy recover at the rate of 64 per cent , and those to whom nothing whatever is done , who receive no treatment at all , are cured at a rate of 72 per cent . |
| 15 | Many women spend some years away from paid employment bringing up children or looking after elderly or disabled relatives . |