Example sentences of "[adj] year since he [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He added that it had been some years since he had been back in England . |
| 2 | It had been forty years since he had first met Felicity ; they had been students at the Sorbonne reading a course entitled ‘ Civilisation francaise ’ , paid for by their indulgent fathers . |
| 3 | It had been a few years since he had served Mass last as an altar-boy in Rosstrevor , and even the new authority of his police sergeant 's stripes did little to compensate for his nervousness at being on the altar again . |
| 4 | During the six years since he joined the company , he has been involved in many of the major changes that have taken place . |
| 5 | It 's eleven years since he died , but Howard recognizes his voice at once , and is able to save him the embarrassment of deciding whether to say , ‘ This is your father , ’ or , ‘ This is Laurence , ’ or , ‘ This is your Dad . ’ |
| 6 | He 's done more than just survive in the 31 years since he lost his legs . |
| 7 | In the three years since he had broken through as a pop star , Kylie has constructed a network of companies to handle her affairs . |
| 8 | How many years since he had whipped up the spirits for any party ? |
| 9 | It was many years since he 'd had anything in common with his foster family and she would have expected him to use his sojourn in America as a tactful method of ending the association , of breaking ties that could have no conceivable advantage for him . |
| 10 | It was now ten years since he had died , and during the first year she had herself pushed the handcart out almost every day for , except for young Ben , she was on her own . |
| 11 | It was ten years since he had been in Europe . |
| 12 | It was ten years since he came north , married a young Indian model called Raksha and went straight . |
| 13 | It 's now ten years since he set up Some Bizzare , and in that time he has enticed Matt Johnson , You 've Got Foetus On Your Breath , Psychic TV , Einstuerzende Neubauten and Berlin-born cabaret singer Anges Bernelle into his entourage . |
| 14 | It was at least fifteen years since he 'd carried a glass across a room to her . |
| 15 | She still had n't got over the shock of seeing David Markham again ; it must be … she did a rapid calculation in her head … all of five years since he 'd walked out of their lives . |
| 16 | It was a goal of the highest class , reflecting the progress the 29-year-old striker has made in the five years since he left Blundell Park to earn fame and fortune with Norwich City and Rangers . |
| 17 | Pinchbeck acknowledges that in the five years since he left , Magnus has undergone interesting change . |
| 18 | In the last five years since he set up his consultancy from his Bayswater home with a £20,000 overdraft and a stack of letterhead stationery , he has insisted that he will only work for causes in which he believes , and these causes are , by and large , left-wing . |
| 19 | Next Wednesday , it 'll be exactly one year since he died . |
| 20 | In two weeks ' time it would be one year since he had first come to Iraq . |
| 21 | This was the first year since he became leader of his party six years ago that Mr Kinnock was relieved of his preoccupation with an ungovernable party and was able to turn his attention properly to the government of the country . |
| 22 | Steinitz 's own furniture , amassed over the twenty years since he acquired the Château and its contents , accounted for one-third of the lots . |
| 23 | However , he reflected that it was now twenty years since he had been ejected from the church on ‘ Black Bartholomew 's Day ’ , and during all that time , by God 's mercy , he , and many others had been kept in relative ‘ peace ’ and freedom to serve the Lord , despite all the efforts of the Church and State to silence them . |
| 24 | It was near twenty years since he had been here , and he had never , to his knowledge , so much as set eyes on any member of the surviving household . |
| 25 | As for O'Leary , it is 3½ years since he had the car accident which left him with a back injury so severe as to necessitate three operations . |
| 26 | The evidence in the two years since he took over at the club suggests Mr O'Neill 's best efforts will be enough to secure promotion from the GM Vauxhall Conference . |
| 27 | It was two years since he had last been below the Net , but his early discomfort quickly passed , older habits taking over , changing the way he moved , the way he held himself . |
| 28 | Soon after this incident Richard emerges from the obscurity which had surrounded his movements in the last two years since he knelt in homage at Montmirail . |
| 29 | Pipe has achieved ever-increasing tallies in each of the 14 years since he took out a licence . |
| 30 | I cried in surprise , for it had been four years since he disappeared . |