Example sentences of "be [vb pp] some years " in BNC.

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1 He is therefore likely to have been born some years before 1248 .
2 It had been converted some years before Miss Dalgliesh had bought it by the addition of a flint-faced , two-storey building with a large sitting room , smaller study and a kitchen on the ground floor and three bedrooms , two of them with their own bathrooms , on the floor above .
3 The photograph had been taken some years ago at a GLC panto .
4 The wideband cable systems which were trumpeted some years ago could well carry high quality sound as well as umpteen television channels but their development has run into serious economic problems .
5 Plans for this were made some years ago , but it has not been possible to proceed with them ( a ) because of lack of funds , and ( b ) because the personnel department has overall responsibility in all departments of the authority ’ …
6 These two models were suggested some years ago by Jerry Cook .
7 Kitty spoke of a new lair , a vixen biting the ear of a cub , an owl on a rat , the sound of a wolf although everyone knew the last wolf in England had been killed some years before about forty miles to the south , near the Bay .
8 Noble had been allowed to dissect the last of Kammerer 's nuptial pad specimens ( the rest had been destroyed some years earlier in a fire ) .
9 Some studies have , therefore , been repeated some years later , in an attempt to see what changes have taken place .
10 Dinner conversation that evening took in gout , on which a distinctive book had been published some years earlier .
11 ‘ An institution for the purpose of cultivating this art ( of veterinary medicine ) similar to those which have been established some years in France , Germany , Piedmont , Sweden , Denmark , etc. would afford an exhaustless fund of amusement to independent persons , as well as of precious instruction to all .
12 Where there were examples of co-residence , the joint household had been established some years before the elderly person needed physical care , and a number of these households had been created by the younger generation(s) moving in with the parent , not the other way round .
13 Major restoration projects include the Cathedral of Our Lady whose exterior is now almost complete ; inside , the first phase of work on the nave and roof was completed some years ago .
14 Hound Tor is a deserted settlement in Manaton parish , high on the east side of Dartmoor , which was excavated some years ago and has been left open so that visitors can see it .
15 An effect of this sort was reported some years ago by Grastyan ( 1961 ) , who monitored an electrophysiological correlate ( hippocampal slow waves ) of the overt OR during conditioning and found that the electrical response diminished as the CR emerged .
16 Although their research was done some years ago , the conclusions of Hatch and Mocroft still hold : ‘ On the whole , towns low in voluntary organisations tended to be the ones that were low in terms of social class ’ .
17 In fact , it was copied almost entirely from an apartment in the Dakota building , outside which John Lennon was shot some years later and where Yates himself would live .
18 Dr Bob Woodward and his brother John became interested in the pavement when it was uncovered some years ago .
19 The old hand-chiselled level was opened some years ago by the writer and a description of this , along with these others , is given in the guide to the orefield and its mines .
20 Sadly , the dear little chapel also was demolished some years ago , and the demise of the railway took place about 30 years ago .
21 There is no church or chapel here , the Methodist chapel was demolished some years ago when road improvements were being carried out .
22 It remained as one of the Abbey 's treasures until it was stolen some years ago .
23 felt that this was very encouraging , but after the matter was discussed some years ago , he wrote to the then seventy-five North American members to establish the degree of interest in forming a separate Division .
24 The idea for an exhibition of such size around 250 exhibits from seven European countries was devised some years ago by the Dutch silver specialist Mrs A. Krekel-Aalberse with R. J. Willink of the Netherlands Office for Fine Arts and Dr J. ter Molen of the Boymans .
25 I was fired some years after the War after an altercation with Hymie .
26 ‘ Equal pay for equal work ’ was a justifiable battle-cry of the feminist movement and that ambition was achieved some years ago .
27 This fundamental requirement was established some years ago and is achieved by creating work , spatial , engineering and technical sub-files with the CAD part files .
28 And there 's a book on engine sheds , and er engine sheds , which was published some years ago I think by publishing company , er which gives track plans to help people .
29 This possibility , which was suggested some years ago , has recently been reproposed by Hall et al who studied the development of gluten sensitive enteropathy in the Irish setter , an animal model of human coeliac disease .
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