Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [adv] it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because the sandwich is only a few angstroms thick it transmits visible light — but it reflects longer wavelength heat radiation . |
| 2 | A few months ago it seemed that oil markets were in for a chill spring . |
| 3 | Forty years later it rings true . |
| 4 | Built just a few years ago it looks battle-scarred by usage and needs a good smartening up . |
| 5 | His ceilings are a generous 8 feet high ( not 7 feet ) ; the walls are almost three times the normal thickness ( not 6 but 16 inches , if made of stone ) , and the building , far from being sunk in the ground , is raised 15–18 inches above it to avoid damp . |
| 6 | If it is necessary to draw a clear distinction between social problems and sociological questions then it follows that sociology must maintain a critical distance from the ideas — whether dominant or otherwise — of any particular society at any particular time . |
| 7 | At all events , when the innovative literary theory derived from structuralism began to arrive about twenty years ago it found actual or potential fissures in the form of life and it sought to enlarge and penetrate them . |
| 8 | Two hundred years ago it took five days for news to get from Paris to Strasbourg . |
| 9 | When he first became the candidate more than two years ago it caused considerable controversy . |