Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] it [vb past] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The Tell performance I attended — at Covent Garden on Monday — hung together musically far better than it did two years ago . |
2 | So if it took six months to start each scheme up |
3 | After his return to the ward Mr Reynolds ' temperature rose slowly until it reached 37 C. On the first post-operative morning his temperature was above normal limits ( 37.8 C ) . |
4 | The 1970s were not characterized by an emphasis on the bibliographical aspects of librarianship , and the possibility of wide-scale application of McClellan 's ideas seem more remote now than it did 20 years ago . |
5 | Pascal 's insistence that rigorous , self-searching thought is the basis of morality needs as much hammering home now as it did three centuries ago . |
6 | Standing up to straighten his back , he would take as many as half a dozen buds , popping them all into his mouth , then down he 'd go , snick , snick , bud in , and on to the next — he went so fast that it took two assistants following behind and tying in to keep up with him ! |
7 | So Vi called them her last-day-of-peace roses and vowed they would remain there until the war was over , even if it lasted four years , like the last one had done . |
8 | The business has changed dramatically since it joined six years ago . |