Example sentences of "[conj] it be [verb] [num] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says that it 's taken twenty years to build up the business , but they 'll just have to start all over again . |
| 2 | The fragment sheds some illumination on what it was like to be a feminist 50 years ago , though we would point out that it was written 20 years after the event with all the problems of interpretation that implies . |
| 3 | The doctrine that mental disease did not have a physical cause became widely established , so much so that a study published in 1915 which reported definite changes in the left cerebral hemispheres of schizophrenic patients was largely ignored until it was rediscovered 70 years later . |
| 4 | The house is very charming but it 's taken 20 years to get to the present condition . |
| 5 | Now they are exchanging information right away , and not waiting till it is published two years later in a scientific journal . ’ |
| 6 | Since it was restructured five years ago ( see Nature 332 , 197 ; 1988 ) , the CSIR has tried to obtain a larger proportion of its income from both the private and public sectors for consulting . |
| 7 | It has a proven track record , creating 71,000 new job opportunities since it was formed seven years ago . |
| 8 | The discovery that oriented bars and edges were the trigger features for neurons in the visual cortex was enormously exciting when it was made thirty years ago , but Levick followed up their discovery and found that there are orientation selective neurons in rabbit retina as well as the directionally selective ones shown in Figure 4 . |
| 9 | INVESTORS who piled into North West Water when it was floated three years ago are on the crest of a wave . |
| 10 | Of the 16 funds that made up our Global Strategy umbrella fund when it was launched five years ago , no less than four have come first in their respective sectors over this period , according to Finstat . |
| 11 | Die Hard 's action sequences won rave reviews when it was released four years ago . |
| 12 | Retailers say Pentland Crown , the Scottish-bred variety which increased farmers ' yields by up to 20 per cent when it was introduced 30 years ago , bruises too easily and goes black . |
| 13 | They divided the territory in two , though it was reunited thirty years later . |
| 14 | Their reaction was predictable : ‘ One expects them to groan , though I do n't know quite why we should be seeing a piece as it was performed 50 years ago . |
| 15 | ‘ It is very plush in all areas ’ , he said , ‘ as it was refurbished three years ago . |