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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |