Example sentences of "year [adv] [pron] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | so we started to look for something and I wanted a bungalow , I did n't want to house again , just the two bedrooms I thought would be nice , so what we did we found this bu er this bungalow in er out of Crewe in Haslington and er we put up our house for sale , it cost seventeen thousand , five hundred and this bungalow we bought seventeen thousand , six hundred and fifty , so all I had to add was one hundred and sixty pounds , to sell the house , but the house needed change all the windows to put all the windows and the doors because they were all rotting in , you know , because the houses built er before the second world war and er what we did we put up the and in three months ' time , it in three months ' time my house went and we were moved , in September we started to sell , in January we 'd been living in the , in the new bungalow and then about three years later they built a row of bungalows on the other side where there should , should of been , they kept the land , it should of been shops , but then they changed their minds , they did , they did n't build the shops , but they built all these bungalows again on the other side , you 've been to my home , yeah , so the road that , over the road these bungalows were about three years later than ours and they were going down for thirty two thousand pound , and I bought mine for seventeen thousand seven sixty at six fifty , yeah |
| 2 | In August 1910 she suffered a heart attack , and two years later she had a stroke which left her a paralysed cripple . |
| 3 | Margaret Charlwood started her movement career at the age of six following a serious road accident which it was feared would permanently limit the movement of her legs — eleven years later she won a scholarship to the Arts Educational School in London where she studied all forms of dance , specialising in ballet . |
| 4 | Years later it became a survey of the Roman military conquests and depositions in Britain from AD 43 to 60 , summarized in three books . |
| 5 | Three years later I led a review of social security which was regarded as even more untouchable than the health service . |
| 6 | Tony Revell began experimenting with guitars at the age of fourteen , and five years later he landed a position working with Chris May and Andy Preston , refining his skills while turning out Overwater electrics . |
| 7 | Some years later he took a disciple named Chen Chia Kou and taught him everything he knew . |
| 8 | Four years later he spent a week in hospital with viral pneumonia . |
| 9 | Years later he found a diary he had kept as a schoolboy in 1940 , two years before I became really aware of him , and he gave it to me . |
| 10 | Two years later he obtained a reversion to the office of the queen 's printer . |
| 11 | A few years back I got a girl pregnant and I think she was forced to have an abortion , which is opposite to Lesley . |
| 12 | Where I come from , erm most of the the the fish , the fishing part of the community , up until just two , three years ago we had a tradition of women 's working practices which were handed down for hundreds of years from the female side . |
| 13 | Well I would say it 's , yes , better , cos mean with th with th these erm containers you see now I mean , we had about say ten years ago we had a man here he used to deal with the all general cargo , all loose cargo from Beirut and all the Mediterranean ports but course now you got the trouble there now that 's a , that 's a cargo that 's , what 's fell away . |
| 14 | A couple of years ago we had a visit from a 91-year old lady who had left Uddingston in 1920 to emigrate to America — the tears flowed down her cheeks as she reminisced about playing here as a child . ’ |
| 15 | What about the Halal meat , in this county where three years ago we had a meeting and they decided that animals that were slaughtered without being stunned with sheer terror , who are allowed to bleed to death because this is what a particular group believed in and we did it . |
| 16 | Several years ago we wrote a paper in which we detailed a serious case of abuse of editorial power . |
| 17 | A few years ago we bought a company called who manufacture all the filters that we use . |
| 18 | As another example , and totally unrelated to science , a couple of years ago we undertook a project to look into the organisation of a charitable trust . |
| 19 | FAITHFUL readers know that four years ago we wagered a magnum of bubbly against the proposed restaurant in the former TSB premises in Stanhope having a Michelin star by 1990 . |
| 20 | Thirty or 40 years ago someone wrote a letter to Nature after tracking down its origin . |
| 21 | 3 years ago she had a recurrence of symptoms . |
| 22 | Ten years ago she had a hernia operation . |
| 23 | Two years ago he took a diploma in leisure management at Southampton University and last year added a course in computing at Portsmouth 's Highbury College . |
| 24 | Some years ago he gave a sequence of exciting and idiosyncratic lectures on physics to students at Caltech . |
| 25 | , writes : A FRIEND maintains that about 10 years ago he boarded a train in London , played cards and had a few drinks and did n't leave the train until he reached Paris . |
| 26 | 50 years ago it proved a Bridge Too Far … next September the men from Arnhem are hoping for a happier ending . |
| 27 | A few years ago I saw a couple of Eastenders stars come in erm and Ross whatever his name forget his name there were two young girls standing in front of me scraping pennies out of their purse to get in though we loved that character they wanted to come that night we 've got to get girls like that youngsters like that interested to come on other nights and then come again that 's what needs doing . . |
| 28 | A few years ago I saw a modification with two small hydraulic servos , one fitted to the front and one fitted to the rear brake pipes , ahead of the brake failure device . |
| 29 | Forty years ago I saw a friend off at Paddington , bound for Totnes . |
| 30 | ‘ On a fine Spring morning some sixty years ago I saw a crowd of half-nude men digging ruthlessly into the old grave barrow that has stood from time immemorial on the eastern slope of the hill between the traditional Hurlers and that towering rock idol , the Cheesewring . |