Example sentences of "but that [was/were] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last time the clubs met in this competition West Hartlepool won 22-6 but that was six years ago . |
| 2 | She was indeed torpedoed by a German submarine , but that was two years after the claim that she had been sunk in September 1939 . |
| 3 | But there were other facts : Inez Glynn had disappeared : but that was seventeen years ago . |
| 4 | She lived in a small house near ours and seemed very old to me ; but that was many years ago . |
| 5 | In fact , although he accepted the commission , Mozart never completed all the pieces , later confessing that he could n't stand the flute ( but that was many years before The Magic Flute ) . |
| 6 | But that was many years ago when they were still juveniles and one day she disappeared and none of the eagles there has since had the full power of a Callanish eagle . |
| 7 | ‘ Indeed — in Silmour Street , but that was several years ago , as I think you were about to tell me ? ’ |
| 8 | But that was 20 years ago , now he concentrates on executive recruitment . |
| 9 | ‘ But that was twenty years ago . ’ |
| 10 | But that was three years ago and the judge is still pondering it ( Pacific Telesis has since dropped the idea ) . |