Example sentences of "years [adv] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | MOST of Ravenna 's history and its art treasures revolve around the years 402-476AD when it was capital of the Western Roman Empire . |
| 2 | PAMELA : Tinselled boy , twenty or thirty years hence when you are of age , I shall know how to answer you better . |
| 3 | It may be some months or even years later when , for the first time they over-correct from a practice stall , they experience a substantial reduction in ‘ g ’ loading . |
| 4 | Six years later when Henry Ford 's son , Edsel , cut the first sod of earth on site with a silver spade , the site looked barely more promising . |
| 5 | He got to know them well : years later when they appeared suddenly he could remember who they were . |
| 6 | He was equally sinister two years later when the Foreign Secretary Carrington visited him with a strange request for help in promoting the neutralisation of Afghanistan . |
| 7 | His complete acceptance of the ‘ protest ’ in ‘ Protestant ’ did not come till a few years later when some leading members of his Mount Merrion , Belfast , congregation insisted that he object to the Church 's ‘ street corner boy ’ activities of picketing the Irish Presbyterian Church General Assembly . |
| 8 | His greatest triumph came seven years later when he defeated the seemingly invincible Jimmy Connors to capture Wimbledon , with brilliant variations of pace and style . |
| 9 | It was only just getting over the shock 21 years later when an apparition sauntered past St Paul ‘ s School and round the corner of Gartocher Road into Shettleston Road . |
| 10 | Such renovation was not possible until some years later when the property was transferred to the Ministry of Works — which later became part of the Department of the Environment — and a decision was reached to restore the Villa to its original proportions , i.e , without the wings which had been added by Wyatt . |
| 11 | That was to read oddly ten years later when Crosland was Secretary of State for Education and Science . |
| 12 | The servility of the old-style caddie may have gone forever , but Sir Henry 's view on what made a good caddie in 1934 , and three years later when he won at Carnoustie , is interesting because it still holds true today in the day and age of the yardage chart : ‘ My caddie Butler was content to jog along all day without speaking unless he was spoken to . |
| 13 | This was to come to light two years later when the Football Association appointed a commission to inquire into allegations that Sir Henry had offered financial inducements above the legal fees to attract players to Highbury and that he had diverted club funds to his private account . |
| 14 | Twenty years later when Dick Ryan had become President of Canadian Pacific Airlines , we met by chance at Sea Island Airport , Vancouver . |
| 15 | Years later when I became a painter , many of my subjects were Biblical . |
| 16 | Many years later when I first visited the States I began to understand a bit of how they felt , as I too was then in an alien land — and make no mistake , America is an alien land , for all that we share a language and many common roots . |
| 17 | The amusing story spread like wild-fire through the district and tradition maintains that it impressed the fertile imagination of the young Robert Burns , who was nine years old at the time , and that he recalled the incident many years later when he was creating his masterpiece , the poem Tam O' Shanter , which is set in the ruined kirk . |
| 18 | He writes a letter a few years later when he remembers : |
| 19 | The vicissitudes of climate and harvest continued into the seventeenth century and Pussot goes on to record the contrast between the abundant vintage of 1604 , when the vignerons were ‘ at their wits ’ end for vessels to contain their wine' , and the devastating harvest three years later when the vintage was considered so poor that it ‘ had not been known within the memory of man ’ . |
| 20 | It was revived four years later when they ran into each other again in the unromantic setting of a Greenwich Village laundromat . |
| 21 | This is not surprising in view of Eleanor Jourdain 's extraordinary conduct some years later when , as Principal of St Hugh 's College , she accepted the resignation of the entire staff . |
| 22 | The legendary mole hole was exposed 30 years later when a startled construction crew smashed into it . |
| 23 | The finality of the separation became clear two years later when their father and his girlfriend Alison made a suprise announcement one evening at McDonald 's . |
| 24 | His problems were solved three years later when he was again headhunted , this time to join TI . |
| 25 | Years later when I became chairman of the medical missions of SPG , I realised how in mission hospitals all over the world , the same devoted healing mission was being carried on , which spoke much more eloquently of divine and human love than the preaching of less qualified friends like myself . |
| 26 | I did not obtain the answer to this until several years later when , meeting Willie on holiday , I tackled him on it . |
| 27 | I remember discussing with my parents , years later when I was a student , some recently published findings on the question of innate intelligence . |
| 28 | Comparisons with Awful Amy , who yawned throughout her father Jimmy 's victory speech and who was regarded as an electoral liability four years later when he was thrown out of the White House , will be inevitable . |
| 29 | The protest in Tianjin was perhaps yet another indication of things to come over two years later when respect for the Party had declined still further and Deng Xiaoping had little support left among young intellectuals . |
| 30 | Later in that passage he wrote : ‘ It was n't until thirty years later when I saw her in another woman [ Elizabeth Taylor ] that I realised I had been searching for her all my life . ’ |