Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb past] [be] [adj] year " in BNC.
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1 | He added that it had been some years since he had been back in England . |
2 | The ensuing reforms were implemented piecemeal and did not fundamentally change the system , but procedure was considerably more summary by 1900 than it had been fifty years earlier . |
3 | Most head teachers questioned thought the position was worse than it had been five years earlier . |
4 | The concentration of production in a few firms was considerably more marked in 1970 than it had been 15 years earlier , and many economists attribute around half the increase in concentration in the 1960s to the merger boom during those years . |
5 | It was almost a physical pain and for a moment he felt shocked because it had been many years since the agony of losing Gerda . |
6 | The hands moved away , downwards , across the hard muscle of his stomach that was as tough and flat as it had been ten years ago , when he was eighteen . |
7 | SHE CORRESPONDED WITH AN EXPERT ON THE CHURCH , WHO TOLD HER THAT THE CHURCH SHE HAD ‘ SEEN ’ WAS THE CHURCH AS IT HAD BEEN 400 YEARS AGO , BEFORE IT HAD BEEN REBUILT IN 1553 . |
8 | I enjoyed the gnocchi in a friendly watering hole along the road , however , and the Elban wine was just as good as it had been 30 years ago . |
9 | I cried in surprise , for it had been four years since he disappeared . |