Example sentences of "[adj] years before that " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had admitted some years before that his prose was that of a controversialist rather than a " thinker " and this is what emerges in The Idea of a Christian Society . |
| 2 | She must have realised some years before that I was n't headed in the direction of St Margaret 's , Westminster , but she had still intended the occasion to glitter , a bright milestone in our uneventful lives . |
| 3 | Then we , father er with doing the bicycles and with interest in other engineering things like gas engines , which seemed to have a , a period of er great prosperity I would say er in the period between nineteen hundred or maybe a few years before that until early twenties the , the gas engines were ideal things for little factories . |
| 4 | However , that would be a few years , take a few years before that happened . |
| 5 | Catherine Bramwell Booth , the eldest granddaughter of the Founder , had discovered when she was head of women 's social services fifty years before that the leader needed a thorough knowledge of Salvation Army policy and practice and a keen grasp of government legislation . |
| 6 | Three years before that his wife tried to cross the Kharusan River . |
| 7 | It would be owners and occupants of Wyvis Hall between nine and twelve years before that they would wish to interview , and those were Great-Uncle Hilbert , who was dead , himself and Ivan Langan to whom he had sold the house . |
| 8 | Margaret Thatcher had kept her word given over five years before that I would not lose out by my enforced move to Transport and I was now in charge of the biggest spender and largest employer in Whitehall . |
| 9 | However , using any form of medication should be a last resort and it is only in the last four or five years that I have used herbal remedies ( for eighteen years before that I used no treatments ) as a lot of minor problems will heal themselves , provided that the tank is healthy and the water quality is good . |
| 10 | Although about the middle of the nineteenth century large improvements were made in both the hulls and the rigs of ships , for three or four hundred years before that the basic methods of construction remained nearly constant . |