Example sentences of "years before that i " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | My father had told me years before that I was born under the starsign of the Dog because Sirius was overhead at the time . |
| 5 | With the er , erm , was it years before that I 've had something like forty or thirty five |