Example sentences of "years [adv] would [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They were the sort of people who twenty-five years ago would have been deferred to because they were gents . |
| 2 | The result is that the Viking badge today adorns a range of cars that only a few years ago would have been impossible to imagine . |
| 3 | For such a result to have occurred in the birth-place of European integration even two years ago would have been unthinkable . |
| 4 | Yes , there was something sexual between the two of them now , but any interest he had felt six years ago would have been connected solely with the phenomenon of the awe he had inspired , so overwhelmingly intense that it had reduced her to awkward , agonised silence every time he was around . |
| 5 | Lloyd 's house was a three-bedroom , semi-detached in a street which about sixty years ago would have been classed as a greenfield development . |
| 6 | Of course , anyone forecasting such a scenario just five short years ago would have been certified completely insane . |
| 7 | For those in the middle of these events , there was in addition to the tension and the menace , a certain air of unreality ; this raises the part played by drugs , not merely in the emergence of a forceful counter-culture , but in the attitudes of plain straightforward young people to whom any kind of illicit substance a couple of years earlier would have been a complete mystery . |