Example sentences of "it [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it eleven years today she |
| 2 | They and the Carters were to have shared it that year with the computer analyst and his wife , but one of this couple 's children was involved in an accident and they had to cancel at the last minute . |
| 3 | This is about the pilots who make up this famous aerobatic team , and it focuses on the three new pilots who join it each year . |
| 4 | Write out your own personal ten commandments in the back of your diary ( revise it each year ) so that you are clear what your standards are . |
| 5 | If you , if you have elections every year and it 's a quite tight one you could get a different party in power each year , you could change it each year could n't you ? |
| 6 | It is as difficult for beginners ( except perhaps those of exceptional ability ) as other professions are ; many give up and leave it each year . |
| 7 | 500 use it each year to get specialist information about their crops . |
| 8 | Like Mary Kingsley she was down-to-earth and when her expedition reached Abu Simbel she was horrified to see that the colossal figure of Rameses II was disfigured by plaster left on it fifty years before by an enthusiastic cast-maker . |
| 9 | Give it fifty years and I 'll bet you that the baker and all the rest of the folks , it 'll be coming from a supermarket , but they 'll be delivering stuff that you 've put on your computer . |
| 10 | A WOMAN has sold her car back to the garage where she bought it 32 years ago — and got more than she paid . |
| 11 | I was knocked out by how brilliant it was when I first read it eight years ago , and now I want to put on a national tour and direct it . ’ |
| 12 | In these days of concern for the environment I am unwilling to use peat ( though I did try it some years ago and found my plants made little headway anyway ) . |
| 13 | There was a possibility that we might record it some years ago — such great music , no wonder Wagner was overwhelmed by it ! |
| 14 | The other hands stopped dead when my shovel fell on it some years ago . ’ |
| 15 | It had started out as a ship 's boiler but Selwyn had acquired it some years before to ensure a plentiful supply of soft water for his garden . |
| 16 | The swelling letters pages were occupied with responses to Michael Eaves , a correspondent who had suggested axing the ‘ What 's Happening ’ section , record reviews , and ads from the paper — which would have neatly killed it some years before its time — led by a contribution from one of It 's founders , David Mairowitz , ‘ who broke his b***s [ asterisks his ] seeing that It 1–10 got put together and printed . ’ |
| 17 | Unhappily , he will not celebrate it this year . |
| 18 | Either she did n't want to publish it this year , or not at all but wanted her not to go to another publisher all the same . |
| 19 | But however you make your journey , do it this year — it will never cost as little ! |
| 20 | ‘ We believe that we might have had it this year were it not for the election . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ We were a bit nervous about doing it this year because of the recession but we are getting 5,000–7,000 calls every day , ’ she said . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've lived with it for long enough , but I did n't get away with it this year and I 'm running out of time , ’ said the 26-year-old European champion , who needed a pain-killing injection before the race . |
| 23 | An unofficial BR source told NME that ‘ The train is usually so full that it was considered too dangerous to run it this year . ’ |
| 24 | I am looking forward to seeing him in the French Open and hopefully he will win it this year ! |
| 25 | Dealers who exhibit generally agree that the fair is successful commercially , has improved its standard in recent years , and look to it this year to test the general market for antiques and collectibles . |
| 26 | The other thing is I mean , erm , the , the Trone did it a couple of years ago , they have n't done it this year they |
| 27 | It 's come in in different ways , maths , English and science from Spring Gardens is separate separate sheets which we can actually take out the files and give to each department , there 's no problem there Saint John 's again , is separate sheets , Collingwood is n't , it 's actually on photocopiable sheets , we either cut them up and give them out separately in some form or whatever , and what I 've , what we hope to do over the next maybe this year is to ask them for a sheet each , for each subject that we can actually take out of the file and give to each department , so that is has arrived , it ha did arrive last year but it arrived in such hotch botch that we did n't actually give it out , but we certainly have it this year and Marian and I certainly , Marian anyway will get that together and give it out to departments . |
| 28 | I had to laugh at myself for thinking rather longingly now that I should miss it this year , and especially I would miss Addy , whom I loved . |
| 29 | What is it this year , darling ? |
| 30 | And I 've noticed it this year more markedly than ever before , a certain resignation to unemployment when they leave school . |