Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun sg] five years ago " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stepped off the plane wearing an old primrose Catherine Walker number which last saw the light of day five years ago . |
| 2 | A former history professor at the University of Michigan and at Columbia University in New York City , Waggoner traded blackboard for typewriter five years ago and since then his main journalistic beats have been baseball , travel , food and fashion . |
| 3 | To take another example : Hong Kong 's banks were rotten for lack of regulation five years ago , when a series of collapses frightened the government into spending billions of dollars of public money on rescues . |
| 4 | Elizabeth , who met her fiance on holiday five years ago , was described last night as a kind person who ‘ would not see evil in anyone ’ . |
| 5 | Philip , whose hero is Houdini , first became interested when his parents , Adrian and Stella , bought him a magic set for Christmas five years ago . |