Example sentences of "[vb past] a [noun sg] of years " in BNC.
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| 1 | adult life was spent in South Africa , and erm I found a couple of years ago two books written by a remarkable while English-speaking South African called Donald Woods , who was a newspaper editor , who befriended and then championed a remarkable young black South African called Steve Beeko , who was killed in police detention . |
| 2 | We reported a couple of years back that just as leading US companies like IBM Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co were adopting Total Quality Management with messianic zeal , the Japanese had decided that it was not good enough and had moved on to Zero-Defects Management , and the Financial Times ' Observer column offers an example of just why : it has a release that flags ‘ the first major conference on Total Quality Management for Pension Finds ’ . |
| 3 | I suspect he would have been rewarded by now had a private conversation of his on a car telephone not been picked up and leaked a couple of years ago . |
| 4 | She says she also sleeps better and wakes up with a clearer head which is not the sort of image she portrayed a couple of years ago when all the pressures she was facing caused her to hit the bottle again . |
| 5 | It is a private restaurant opened a couple of years before the revolution by Christian and Marina Stolzenburg . |
| 6 | His latest personal explorative project began a couple of years ago . |
| 7 | Only the queen of the social columns , recruited a couple of years previously from Calgary , sat calmly at her desk , her silver-tipped fingers delicately feeling the pulse of the city 's social life . |
| 8 | ‘ No , I was brought up in Berkhamsted and I spent a couple of years living in Oxfordshire not so long ago , so I 'm not completely inflexible about this . |
| 9 | Myers , who spent a couple of years living in London 's Shepherd 's Bush and Ladbroke Grove , thinks not . |
| 10 | In London , where he spent a number of years , he had gained a reputation as a crook and as a threatener of whites and defender of the coloured-immigrant population . |
| 11 | Jim Kerr , formerly Chief Dealer at Bank of Scotland , Glasgow spent a number of years dealing in London during which time he built many inter-bank relationships in the UK , continental Europe and North America . |
| 12 | Dr Hugh Richardson , of St Andrews , an honorary graduate of the university , spent a number of years in Tibet in charge of the British mission at Lhasa , where he first met the Dalai Lama in 1939 . |
| 13 | I went a couple of years back to the Coe political launch , the only political journalist among a bunch of ‘ 'ere Seb , woss this then ? ’ tabloid sports mackintoshes . |
| 14 | ‘ He died a couple of years after the end of the project . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Both her parents died a couple of years back , ’ said Mrs Molesworth in an aside to Betty . |
| 16 | She died a couple of years a er three years ago . |
| 17 | Douglas McGregor ( Leadership and Motivation ) wrote about his own experiences as a college president that : ‘ It took a couple of years , but I finally began to realise that a leader can not avoid the exercise of authority any more than he can avoid responsibility for what happens in the organisation . ’ |
| 18 | The progression and results of this study ( which took a number of years and involved the House of Lords Record Office , the British Library , the Public Record Office and the College of Arms , as well as the Bridport manuscript books and medieval wills and testaments ) have been presented not only to show that reference books can be wrong , but that the wealth of material available to the local historian can be utilized to very positive effect over an extremely narrow range as over a wide one . |
| 19 | The entire project took a number of years to complete . |
| 20 | It took time , it took time , it took a period of years till they got it finalized but when we got it finalized , we had for example er welding areas , in which no one was allowed in unless they were a welder you know . |
| 21 | The band 's debut release , the ‘ Stoned Woman ’ album , out this month , serves as a summary of their achievements so far and a blueprint for future possibilities — in much the same way the Brand New Heavies ' debut did a couple of years back . |
| 22 | The man who joined Lascubé in his early bath , hooker Vincent Moscato , has forsaken the rugby pitch to take up his other favourite pastime , boxing , just as he did a couple of years ago when suspended after being sent off in a club match . |
| 23 | I did a couple of years of catalogue work — companies that sell clothing through the mail , ’ she said , in answer to his puzzled look . |
| 24 | My least favourites are the patterned shirts in my wardrobe that I bought a couple of years ago |
| 25 | Will the Minister reconsider the wisdom of the policy change introduced a couple of years ago by the Local Enterprise Development Unit to endorse and support market research and development , rather than providing direct grant aid for job creation ? |
| 26 | Changes introduced a couple of years ago are working well and the aggressive marketing that is now taking place is very much to be desired . |
| 27 | Certainly it appears so to Mario who 's given to saying things such as ‘ Yeah , I had a couple of years back then with Ferrari … |
| 28 | Er what is anything is being done about supplying er inclement weather conditions such as the snow we had a couple of years ago . |
| 29 | The Japanese thus gained a couple of years to phase out their use of drift-nets , and retained the hope that their research scientists might be able to hide the truth about drift-net fishing . |
| 30 | The Wesleyan Methodist chapel likewise closed a number of years ago , but serves the village well in its present capacity as the village hall . |