Example sentences of "year it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With bank interest over the years it amounted to some £320,000-certainly enough to meet the Ingard cheque . |
| 2 | After three dormant years it began humming like a computer , sucking in information of which it had been starved , until my head began to hurt physically with the effort . |
| 3 | Fifteen years it lasted , Mr. Kopek . |
| 4 | For several years it looked like Billy Bremner had calmed down , the excessive niggling was more controlled and the bristling temper was kept on a leash , but trouble was always brooding just beneath the surfaces . |
| 5 | In its later years it came into the hands of the Wilkins family . |
| 6 | It was a phrase with many shades of meaning , but essentially in these years it came to refer to that freedom from lay intervention in ecclesiastical appointments and operations which it was Hugh 's special mission to promote . |
| 7 | Every year for thirty-four years it came back , earning itself the name of súlukongur — ‘ king of the gannets ’ — till finally on 11th May 1894 , it was shot . |
| 8 | For most consensus theorists , the answer lies in a theory of social structure made famous by Durkheim in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and developed to such an extent by Talcott Parsons and his followers in the USA between the 1930s and 1950s that during these years it came to be seen as the sociological theory . |
| 9 | For three years it went on . |
| 10 | I do n't know how many years it went on and then there were a lot of ploughs and boys a lot of their own ploughs I think . |
| 11 | While this study is limited to one university and deals with a relatively small intake of mature students over a period of six years it does demonstrate that non-standard entry mature students can do particularly well when compared with other students . |
| 12 | For many years it lay ignored in store , but was restored a few years ago ; its lack of finish is particularly significant . |
| 13 | Indeed , over the years it developed into one of the largest regular gay events in the country . |
| 14 | ‘ Every six or seven years it overruns the Humboldt . ’ |
| 15 | But for me , all the time , it is a reminder that for 49 years it replaced wedding anniversary celebrations , and the memory of all those bonfires on the way to Bournemouth on a drizzly November afternoon , all those years ago . |
| 16 | For many years it hung in Thorpe Hall . |
| 17 | In her early years it met three days a week , but in the final decades was meeting on six or seven . |
| 18 | Spread over three years it brought in £187,000 . |
| 19 | For nearly 300 years it achieved notoriety for its private madhouses . |
| 20 | The Committee for Education gave special attention to the question of college libraries and set up a working party in 1974 to advise on provision in colleges proposing to diversify their courses , and over the next three years it offered guidance on ways of assessing the quality of provision , emphasized the importance of the standing of the head of the library service or resource centre , of consultation with the library in course development , and of initiating students into making effective use of the library and learning resources . |
| 21 | It thinks in years , not months or weeks : the three or four years it takes to reach a degree ; the similar or longer period needed for a doctorate ; the intellectual shifts that occur over decades , even centuries . |
| 22 | Over the next ten years it kept going by making a succession of calls on its shareholders for additional funds ; by 1708 it was fairly clearly insolvent , and after 1713 it almost completely ceased trading . |
| 23 | La Plata , the administrative centre of Buenos Aires province , had undergone economic vicissitudes at the end of the century , but with the upturn in its fortunes in the next few years it acquired a station of striking originality , an overall shed flanked by a staggeringly ornate pentagonal building covered in statuary and surmounted by a dome . |
| 24 | Through the years it passed into the possession of many Norman knights , nobility and royalty until in the 18th century , by marriage , it came to the family of the Marquesses of Bute . |
| 25 | Polgar resolved to do the same , although for years it resulted in severe poverty . |
| 26 | Within a very few years it succeeded in drastically altering the climate in its own homelands — much to the pain of surviving Liberals , such as Harnack , who saw in the entire regrettable enterprise the swamping of properly respectable theological and historical study by a wave of sheer barbarism , of uncouth and indeed vulgar ‘ enthusiasm ’ . |
| 27 | For years it continued to give pleasure at countless cinema shows in deaf institutes all over the country until demand for the available films gradually ceased . |
| 28 | Over the years it became an ecological Salient . |
| 29 | Although hailed at the time as ‘ the most important discovery in England [ and perhaps ] … of greater importance than any other yet made at home or abroad ’ , during the next forty years it became increasingly difficult to reconcile this hominid with the burgeoning human fossil record from Asia and Africa . |
| 30 | For years it seemed they were common enough to turn the competitive paradigm into something of little practical use . |