Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] it [vb past] [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Irish national lottery has created 19 millionaires since it started five years ago . |
| 2 | This month I was the first Secretary of State for Trade and Industry to be invited to address its conference since it began 15 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 | I took the bits home in a lorry and it took 25 years to rebuild . |
| 5 | The Commissioners answers came in the form of a set of proposals which represented the most fundamental reshaping of the common Agricultural policy since it began 30 years ago . |
| 6 | , co-ordinator of the Open Day has been a user of the Jack Kane Centre since it opened 17 years ago . |
| 7 | No reed was to be mown for thatch before it had two years ' growth . |
| 8 | It became known as the Doomsday Book and it took two years to compile , but it illustrated that England was then a land of extensive royal forests and open fields , with only a few townships in the forest clearings , or at a river crossing . |
| 9 | Pauline Edwards had worked as a nurse at the hospital since it opened seven years ago . |
| 10 | Ian Hollingsbee worked at the hospital before it closed 4 years ago . |
| 11 | It used to hold young offenders before it closed two years ago.Now it 's just about ready to take immingrants detained by the Home Office . |
| 12 | ‘ Members of my church have been working with ACET since it started 3 years ago . |
| 13 | The Royal Ulster Constabulary is solving twice as many crimes as it did 10 years ago . |