Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb past] [adv] [adj] year " in BNC.
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1 | Here , contamination with metals , says Battarbee , occurs ‘ about ten years before the first evidence of acidification ’ , which suggests that it took only ten years to exhaust the lake 's capacity to buffer pollution . |
2 | Certainly the AgriBusiness side of it looks less rosy than it did even two years ago . |
3 | So how can they do , and it took about ten years to build this |
4 | She had been married for five years and it took as many years again to finalise the divorce . |
5 | The iceberg was 155 km long until it broke up last year . |
6 | He was an engineer and erm he he was he made co , he worked on conveyers and things and then he changed his occupation became a civil servant and he worked at the Admiralty down on Templefields until it closed about ten years , cos my husband has been retired about five years now . |
7 | This description was entirely correct , but it took nearly 50 years to work out exactly how the different parts fitted together . |
8 | It was 2,926 yards long and 14 feet wide , but it took only 3 years to complete because of more advanced engineering methods . |
9 | Anyone considering the venue a rather incongruous one for startling political imagery and prototype ‘ vehicles ’ for those with and without power in society ( the police on one side , immigrants and the homeless on the other ) , has obviously not got the message the Fundació has aimed to get across since it opened exactly two years ago : that it is not just about Tàpies , but has a wider and more challenging agenda . |
10 | Aldershot Town 1992 was set up by fans of the original club when it folded earlier this year with huge financial problems . |
11 | By selling 12 times as much wine as it did only five years ago , Australia outsells the US , and with the exchange rate currently working in our favour , prices are getting cheaper all the time . |