Example sentences of "it [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it eleven years today she |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | A WOMAN has sold her car back to the garage where she bought it 32 years ago — and got more than she paid . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | There was a possibility that we might record it some years ago — such great music , no wonder Wagner was overwhelmed by it ! |
| 8 | The other hands stopped dead when my shovel fell on it some years ago . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | Indeed , for the first three months of his premiership lie performed a feat which had seemed remarkable even when Gladstone had last done it forty years before and retained the Chancellorship as well as being First Lord of the Treasury . |
| 12 | The allied word ‘ antibiotic , reached the English language when the botanist Marshall Hall used it 10 years later . |
| 13 | ‘ It was like an enchanted garden when we first saw it six years ago , very full and wild . |
| 14 | FARNELL Electronics has confounded the doubters and increased earnings per share yet again in the recessionary 12 months to February 2 , giving it 26 years of uninterrupted growth . |
| 15 | It looks like our ‘ friends ’ at the end of the East Lancs could be awaiting another 25 , or is it 26 years now ! |
| 16 | My crew were never aware of my lapse and I am just as ashamed to tell this story today as I would had I told it 45 years ago . |
| 17 | The ancient Chinese invented it 2,000 years ago as a way to pass instructions down the line and information up to the top . |
| 18 | It had taken us an hour to walk but had taken the men who drove it thirteen years of drilling and blasting through 748 fathoms of solid rock to build it . |
| 19 | It may be that he took new insignia after the subjugation of Norway , and that he left his old crown in Winchester , in much the same way that Henry II of Germany had , at his imperial coronation in 1014 , hung his former crown above the altar of St Peter 's , where Cnut would almost certainly have seen it thirteen years later . |
| 20 | Is it thirteen years since . |
| 21 | Simeon 's revolt , like the one which preceded it sixty-six years before , was ruthlessly suppressed , but not before the Holy Land had once again been ravaged . |
| 22 | What a pity the kangaroo had been discovered too late for Johnson s Dictionary : Captain Cook makes the first reference to it three years earlier , in his Journal for August 1770 . |
| 23 | Capitol Plastics of Bowling Green , Ohio , reckons that it took it three years , $200,000 of investment and meetings wit several hundred people to win its first order ( worth a little over $200 ) from Honda 's plant in Marysville , Ohio . |
| 24 | I 'll give it three years before it starts going downhill again |
| 25 | You know , I mean but this teacher wo n't stand no nonsense and I said to Lee y you were at it three years before you could speak like Carla speaks it ! |
| 26 | I 've had it three years . |
| 27 | Well it 's certainly , well so that 's ninety , ninety one , ninety two I would n't have thought it would be four years Adrian , they only ever do it three years or five years d do n't they ? |
| 28 | And it would have remained little more than a name but for the immense political danger that threatened it 21 years ago . |
| 29 | I 've also still got my old Gibson Melody Maker ; I put humbuckers in it many years ago and it 's got a really warm , big sound . |
| 30 | Wordsworth has observed a primrose perched on top of a rock ; in the second stanza he remembers that he first saw it many years ago ( actually 1802 . |