Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb past] [verb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | The greatest challenge to the continuing applicability of public service principles to broadcasting structure and content was not the arrival of TV itself , which slid comfortably into the BBC system in 1946 , where it had started 10 years earlier , but the Churchill government 's decision to introduce a second TV network in 1955 . |
| 2 | By 1985 sales of tape cassettes were outnumbering disc sales , although it had taken 40 years for the advocates of magnetic recording to see this come about . |
| 3 | In late May the FBI admitted that it had questioned thirty-one year old Brian M. McDevitt in connection with the theft , in which two robbers cut such masterpieces as Vermeer 's ‘ The concert ’ and Rembrandt 's ‘ The storm on the Sea of Galilee ’ from their frames . |
| 4 | And then , when he was about eighteen , reality of another kind intruded itself and he said aloud , ‘ I did n't do it for Alice , I did it for myself ’ , and thought how extraordinary it was that it had taken four years to discover that fact . |
| 5 | If it had happened two years earlier , I could n't have coped . |
| 6 | But it had taken four years from the completion of that review for a decision to be made on the future of the RHA 's six asylums . |
| 7 | Moderator it ca n't be very often that a young minister contradicts a giant of the church in open assembly but it did happen several years ago . |
| 8 | But the clinching reasons were national : alarm at the soaring cost of German unity and fury at the government 's recent decision to raise taxes , after it had said last year that it would not . |