Example sentences of "n't [prep] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus it was n't for many years after the first inhibitor experiments were reported that I actually got around to test their effects myself . |
| 2 | Oh , you were n't like that years ago though were you , when he was stopping out at bloody four o'clock in the morning I come round Joy , I 've come round |
| 3 | It was n't until 10 years after the crash that Wimpol was first approached to advise on suitable vessels and equipment for salvaging the wreckage from the ocean floor — a depth of three-and-a-half kilometres . |
| 4 | Later in that passage he wrote : ‘ It was n't until thirty years later when I saw her in another woman [ Elizabeth Taylor ] that I realised I had been searching for her all my life . ’ |
| 5 | I was given anti- depressants , that did n't help and it was n't until four years later when they actually admitted me to hospital and then an ulcer and the depression disappeared once it had been diagnosed . |
| 6 | And it , it was n't until many years later that I told anyone at all that 's , that 's the thing I was saying about bulimia , it 's very secret . |
| 7 | I have over the years sent my postal order regularly and it was n't until two years ago that I became more actively involved in the work of Save The Children fund raising . |
| 8 | It was n't until some years later that I came back to the question of the receptors and showed that the most dramatic effects involved the NMDA glutamate receptor I mentioned in the last chapter ( but wo n't discuss further here ) . |
| 9 | What he saw would n't change Wellington 's thinking : it had n't in fifty years , so why should it now ? |
| 10 | Which were n't in thirty years ago . |