Example sentences of "n't [prep] [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | What he saw would n't change Wellington 's thinking : it had n't in fifty years , so why should it now ? |
| 6 | Which were n't in thirty years ago . |