Example sentences of "as it [vb past] [num] [noun] ago " in BNC.
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1 | The national gallery gets £2.75 million , the same as it received seven years ago and rather less than it received 10 years ago . |
2 | The Royal Ulster Constabulary is solving twice as many crimes as it did 10 years ago . |
3 | There are also links with Nottingham 's twin city Minsk proving that the department still serves the local community as it did 75 years ago . |
4 | The choice of the right level at which to study a phenomenon is as important a strategic decision in biology as is the choice of the right organism or the appropriate control experiment , and it affects present-day research just as much as it did twenty years ago . |
5 | Pascal 's insistence that rigorous , self-searching thought is the basis of morality needs as much hammering home now as it did three centuries ago . |