Example sentences of "year [adv] i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | government , it it 's various years so I hate to sort of say , ah well council taxes cuts will be a bit lower er with the conservatives going to be an argument which is but halfway to equal counties so I think we can sort of discount really what the conservatives say but I will say the liberal democrats are to be . |
| 2 | About two-and-a-half years later I walked into a small clothes shop to see the celebrity holding court . |
| 3 | A couple of years later I went to primary school and came under the strict , disciplined regime that was usual in Jamaica in those days . |
| 4 | Eleven years later I worked with him as a local newspaper reporter when he was a club manager at Ayr United . |
| 5 | Twenty years ago I walked along it , half hoping to find a lost domain , and when I had crossed the small brick bridge over a stream I suddenly saw Wood Dalling Hall sailing like some proud ship above hawthorn hedges and ancient meadows , as beautiful and as Norfolk as could be . |
| 6 | Some years ago I saw on TV a most splendid series by a marvellous writer called Brian Clark . |
| 7 | Eleven years ago I wrote to the then President of our Institute making the case for expanding the role of the Institute . |
| 8 | Some years ago I protested against the latter which , in my view , vitiates nearly all research in the so-called ‘ science ’ of sociology . |
| 9 | It 's to do with the Government housing policy at national level , but there are certain things we can do , and I remember about two and a half years ago I arranged for a group of people to come and give a seminar to the Housing Committee . |
| 10 | Many years ago I came across the card in the Doll Museum in Wrexham and I 've been on the lookout for it every since . ’ |
| 11 | Some years ago I said to him , ‘ I live on Mikonos now . ’ |
| 12 | Two years ago I left on my third African consultancy — this one to propose an anti-AIDS programme for Uganda . |
| 13 | Two years ago I got through the guilt obstacle . |
| 14 | Some years ago I worked with a golfer who had achieved a considerable amount of success , winning several amateur trophies . |
| 15 | Many years ago I worked as a Time and Motion Study ( Work Study ) officer in industry , where the question was always : why ca n't all workers produce the output achieved by the best workers ? |
| 16 | Some seventeen years ago I moved with my young family to West Ham from Ealing . |
| 17 | When I read Mary Gordon 's Final Payments a few years ago I shuddered with relief at having broken the spell of what had been wished on me . |
| 18 | I know because many years ago I happened to be in the right place , in the ambulance I was driving at the right time and was able to e effect a rescue of an old woman from her smoke filled house at Burstill Ten minutes later I could not have done it because of the smoke . |
| 19 | And there 's a book on engine sheds , and er engine sheds , which was published some years ago I think by publishing company , er which gives track plans to help people . |
| 20 | I had been in constant pain , since my accident , for nearly two years when I stumbled across the Alexander Technique . |
| 21 | ‘ When we first moved in over a year ago I wrote to the police in the traffic section at Winchester about the situation in Holybourne , ’ said Mrs. Gilmour . |
| 22 | This happened to me in May this year when I walked into ‘ Pluggers ’ shop ( Wet Pet of Detroit ) and saw the most beautiful pair of Ornate Birchirs ( Polypterus ornatipinnis ) I had ever seen for sale . |
| 23 | So she did n't expe , you know the ma , matrix system of levels and stuff I did n't fully understand that until the fourth year when I went with Miss cos she never explained it because she did n't reckon you needed to know . |
| 24 | ‘ Every year when I come to Faalifu for four months or so I engage a resident pianist from California . |