Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [noun] [prep] years [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did slim down a couple of years ago but has piled on the pounds again . |
| 2 | Eva sang and Margaret watched , filled with admiration for the sister who was only a couple of years ahead of her in age but light years away in confidence . |
| 3 | Most surprisingly , as von Klitzing and his colleagues showed only a couple of years ago , the Hall resistance at each plateau , measured as the ratio of the Hall voltage to the longitudinal current , appears to be precisely a multiple of fundamental constants , h/Ne 2 , and is completely independent of all experimental parameters . |
| 4 | This improvement became available only a couple of years ago in the shape of Gore-Tex booties . |
| 5 | What a turnaround for a Government which only a couple of years ago actually raised more money than it spent and was dedicated to not borrowing . |
| 6 | It is only a couple of years ago that Jenkins rejected out of hand the Wales involvement he has now taken on , and — until Davies and the Wales manager , Robert Norster , beat their path to his door — he has tended to use the expression ‘ poisoned chalice ’ whenever anyone sounded out his interest or rather the lack of it . |
| 7 | Tordjman noted that 9% of business came from IBM AS/400 systems , up from nothing only a couple of years ago . |
| 8 | When IBM 's AT ( the 286 based computer ) was launched in late 1984 , it ran at 8MHz , but it was n't long before faster and faster oscillator speeds were used — a 25MHz 286 based machine was quite common only a couple of years ago . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't doubt it , Seb , you 've come a long way from the poor , sickly boy who arrived here from London only a couple of years ago . ’ |
| 10 | Rehearsals were held in the Club 's premises at 136 Bree Street , a former gymnasium acquired and converted only a couple of years before . |
| 11 | As far as Paul and Granville are concerned , they 've already come an unfeasibly long way since they got together a couple of years ago at college in Derby . |
| 12 | The people who lived here moved away a couple of years ago , so I was told . |
| 13 | ‘ Ratners thought this through a couple of years ago and then found itself locked into the game of pushing price to keep volumes moving and everything was put on the back burner , ’ says Richards . |
| 14 | Just a couple of years ago these cars would have fetched three or four times that price . |
| 15 | One more story about O : he told me ( it was as if he was trying to explain the oddity of his lovemaking to me , as if he was trying to account for or apologise for the way he 'd treated me , or perhaps to reassure me concerning the effect he 'd had on me , I do n't know ) , in the morning he told me that there was one man , this had been just a couple of years previously , there was one man who had summoned him to his bedside to be counted amongst a farewell gathering of lovers , dear friends and great passions . |
| 16 | It was clear to him she was just a playmate of years long gone . |
| 17 | ‘ There were problems in the past with the way the fund was run , but when I took over a couple of years ago we took a very long look at our accounting system and put matters right . |
| 18 | ‘ Claire took off a couple of years ago . |
| 19 | ‘ He said he 'd read it somewhere a couple of years ago , and it had struck him so deeply that he could n't shake it from his mind . |
| 20 | He followed this up a couple of years later with Sophie 's Choice opposite Meryl Streep . |
| 21 | And er this divided this street into two but at probably a number of years before , it had been tunnelled in and the top part of the street was called Street and there , there was a slight hill run down to . |
| 22 | The first effective English settlement in the West Indies , founded in 1624 , was on the island of St. Christopher ( later called St. Kitts ) which was shared with the French , informally at first and then by a formal partition worked out a couple of years later which lasted until the British gained the whole island in 1713 . |
| 23 | Aye , I 'm going back a lot of years ago |
| 24 | Even silver for the major World Fairs , which did extremely well a couple of years ago , was weak . |
| 25 | Time to slow down — I 'd been booked here a couple of years earlier . |
| 26 | We managed perfectly alright a couple of years ago when the buses did n't come up here , we could manage now . ’ |
| 27 | A married 32-year-old store manager says : ‘ If I chanced upon an encounter , I think that maybe a couple of years ago , I would n't have worn one . |
| 28 | But that it took another oh quite a number of years really to get it started up . |
| 29 | she was there a couple of years ago , two or three years ago . |
| 30 | He lured me there a couple of years ago to talk to his sixth form group about the Irish problem . |