Example sentences of "only [art] [noun] [prep] year [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This improvement became available only a couple of years ago in the shape of Gore-Tex booties . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Tordjman noted that 9% of business came from IBM AS/400 systems , up from nothing only a couple of years ago . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 9 | Rehearsals were held in the Club 's premises at 136 Bree Street , a former gymnasium acquired and converted only a couple of years before . |