Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] since he [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been eleven months since he 'd seen or spoken to Chester , but he was greeted as effusively as ever , and ushered in . |
| 2 | Thirty-six hours since he had been roused . |
| 3 | It was less than seventy-two hours since he had heard of the finding of Riddle 's clothes , but it seemed much longer . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | During the six years since he joined the company , he has been involved in many of the major changes that have taken place . |
| 6 | As I had grown some six inches since he had last seen me , I did n't for a moment believe that his recognition was unprompted . |
| 7 | Neil has travelled 2,000 miles since he bought the Primera at the turn of the year . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | It was almost three months since he had been home , but now , standing there , it seemed that he had never been away . |
| 10 | SMOKEY ROBINSON has been singing and writing his love sings since the age of 13 and it 's a whole three decades since he had his first hit . |
| 11 | He 's done more than just survive in the 31 years since he lost his legs . |
| 12 | He had seen for himself the progress that had been made in the three days since he had last visited the laboratories . |
| 13 | It could not be three days since he had been left in the dark ; was it even three hours ? |
| 14 | In the three years since he had broken through as a pop star , Kylie has constructed a network of companies to handle her affairs . |
| 15 | After the victory at Filbert Street , Rovers ' first away win of the season , Yates said : ‘ We 've shown great improvement in the three games since he arrived . ’ |
| 16 | It was 17 days since he had last locked the door of his office , turned down the lights , and unscrewed the cap of his walking stick , and heard Dr Tariq and Professor Khan discuss a series of meetings in Europe . |
| 17 | It was just eighty-eight days since he had recaptured his capital of Paris , yet in those few days he had shown the world how an emperor made armies . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It was ten years since he had been in Europe . |
| 20 | It was ten years since he came north , married a young Indian model called Raksha and went straight . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It had been five hours since he 'd got home , and he had n't slept in that time . |
| 23 | It was five months since he had last seen her , since he had last been in Athens . |
| 24 | It was at least fifteen years since he 'd carried a glass across a room to her . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Pinchbeck acknowledges that in the five years since he left , Magnus has undergone interesting change . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It was 28 hours since he had driven the clapped-out Ford Capri into the street , and counted himself lucky to find a space to park that was pretty near opposite the front door from which the man had emerged with his two small girls . |
| 30 | Is the Prime Minister aware that in the 15 months since he got his job 840,000 people have lost their jobs ? |