Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] it [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few months ago it seemed that oil markets were in for a chill spring . |
| 2 | Two hundred years ago it took five days for news to get from Paris to Strasbourg . |
| 3 | When he first became the candidate more than two years ago it caused considerable controversy . |
| 4 | The GPS system made its public debut in the recent Gulf War when it enabled allied troops to navigate at night across hundreds of miles of desert to within a few metres . |
| 5 | Newark Castle was of strategic importance during the Civil War when it withheld three sieges by Parliamentarians . |
| 6 | Broomfield and Alexander , a seven partner firm based in south Wales , had been the club 's auditors for many years when it hit financial difficulties . |
| 7 | We continued with our three-man tent , a Phoenix Phor-3 , and I must say , the extra space was much appreciated on several occasions , not least on 6 August when it snowed all day and I thrashed Pete at cards . |
| 8 | There are several reasons why it received greater emphasis as the years went by . |
| 9 | As a mass medium nationally it achieved full status only in 1959 when it started printing in London , dropped Manchester from the mast-head and was distributed nationally like the other Fleet Street dailies . |
| 10 | The slide-car was as old as history yet it had one advantage : the farmer could carry loads on gradients where it would be dangerous to take a wheeled cart . |
| 11 | Management board chairman Hans-Olaf Henkel said that transfer reduced its extraordinary loss to $562m last year when it had extraordinary expenditure of $1,134m . |
| 12 | Management board chairman Hans-Olaf Henkel said that transfer reduced its extraordinary loss to $562m last year when it had extraordinary expenditure of $1,134m . |
| 13 | Upon closure of the branch line in 1957 , the B.E.M.U. went home to Derby where it became departmental test unit ‘ Gemini ’ , before eventually being acquired by the West Yorkshire Transport Museum . |