Example sentences of "[det] [subord] it [verb] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The choice of the right level at which to study a phenomenon is as important a strategic decision in biology as is the choice of the right organism or the appropriate control experiment , and it affects present-day research just as much as it did twenty years ago . |
| 2 | Mrs Merlin and her husband Christopher say radioactive contamination was behind their decision to sell the house , Mountain Ash , Ravenglass , six miles from Sellafield , which fetched only £35,000 — little more than it cost 11 years earlier . |
| 3 | The national gallery gets £2.75 million , the same as it received seven years ago and rather less than it received 10 years ago . |
| 4 | The Met receives about $13 million a year for operations from New York City , $3 million less than it got two years ago . |
| 5 | The national gallery gets £2.75 million , the same as it received seven years ago and rather less than it received 10 years ago . |