Example sentences of "year [adv] because [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The former telecommunications installation worker is giving evidence in advance of a full court hearing up to two years away because he has only weeks to live . |
| 2 | They performed well — many have sustained their popularity for years mainly because they give excellent performance for low cost . |
| 3 | used to do years ago because they were working or whatever . |
| 4 | This is why you know , I , I think you should keep di I keep diaries from years ago because I know you do n't like nostalgia , and I do n't , but it 's interesting |
| 5 | Kenny Everett said : ‘ I stopped watching 10 years ago because it was hideously irritating . |
| 6 | Well , er , I became er , unhappy with the communist party many years ago because it did n't follow the philosophical teaching on which works , the erm , erm , dialectical materialism . |
| 7 | Born black in the Aliso Project , in the days before it became Mexican , he became a cop 20 years ago because he thought it was an honourable job . |
| 8 | It was a face that Joseph and Flavia Sherman would have recognized instantly from their encounter with the Annamese journalist in the palace of Khai Dinh at Tet exactly five years earlier because it had changed little , if at all , in the interval of time . |
| 9 | ‘ I can go on for another three or four years yet because I 'm still as fit as a fiddle , ’ he said . |
| 10 | He won the Republican nomination this year largely because he persuaded conservative voters that he favoured ‘ life ’ more than his two principle opponents . |
| 11 | Erm it 's g there now obviously the end of year it builds up over the end of the year partly because it relies on the extra recruitment and the increasing sales per er per capita erm or per capita sales I should say . |
| 12 | He re-visits the Copella fruit juice farm in Suffolk , the business he told the owners to sell a year ago because they had no chance of making money . |
| 13 | The only National Front MP elected in last year 's general election , Mrs Yann Piat , said she resigned from the party a year ago because she ‘ realised that the Front was a dead-end movement and a danger to our country . ’ |