Example sentences of "[adv] if it [vb past] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 So if it took six months to start each scheme up
2 The usefulness of the Grand Plan , even if it had few subscribers , was that it provided a cover .
3 Whatever may have been said in the 1930s — even if it reflected current views then — cannot be correct today .
4 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 .
5 The great treeless plains from Salamanca to Valladolid were most economically employed with wheat and grazed fallows , while other poorer provinces — Avila for instance — could grow little else , even if it meant wretched crops and three-year fallows .
6 He threatened tough action to control council spending — even if it meant painful limits on Tory authorities .
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