Example sentences of "[subord] it [vb past] [num] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Belgium , he remarked , was a state addicted to backstairs deals and perpetual campaigning , where it took 100 days just to form a government . |
| 2 | The Met receives about $13 million a year for operations from New York City , $3 million less than it got two years ago . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | The starting point is a question which Adam Smith , John Maynard Keynes or Milton Friedman would be hard pushed to answer : why does it take longer for a carpenter or bricklayeer to earn the price of a pound of meat or a housebrick than it did five centuries ago ? |
| 6 | The Tell performance I attended — at Covent Garden on Monday — hung together musically far better than it did two years ago . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The Commissioners answers came in the form of a set of proposals which represented the most fundamental reshaping of the common Agricultural policy since it began 30 years ago . |
| 9 | This month I was the first Secretary of State for Trade and Industry to be invited to address its conference since it began 15 years ago . |
| 10 | Although this looked worse than it might have done since it covered fourteen months instead of twelve — the result of an adjustment to a different financial year — such figures demanded a response . |
| 11 | , co-ordinator of the Open Day has been a user of the Jack Kane Centre since it opened 17 years ago . |
| 12 | It 's the latest setback for Euro Disney which has been losing money since it opened eighteen months ago . |
| 13 | Since it opened 2 years ago , 7 deaths have been attributed to driver fatigue . |
| 14 | Pauline Edwards had worked as a nurse at the hospital since it opened seven years ago . |
| 15 | The Irish national lottery has created 19 millionaires since it started five years ago . |
| 16 | ‘ Members of my church have been working with ACET since it started 3 years ago . |
| 17 | The business has changed dramatically since it joined six years ago . |
| 18 | Since it arrived four days ago , every last word was beaten into her brain . |
| 19 | ‘ She 's been in a coma since it happened six weeks ago . ’ |
| 20 | Ian Hollingsbee worked at the hospital before it closed 4 years ago . |
| 21 | When it began three years ago , Anis used its own brand name . |
| 22 | He dispatched a police patrol car , but when it arrived 16 minutes later the telephone was swinging on the end of its cord . |
| 23 | The national gallery gets £2.75 million , the same as it received seven years ago and rather less than it received 10 years ago . |
| 24 | The Royal Ulster Constabulary is solving twice as many crimes as it did 10 years ago . |
| 25 | There are also links with Nottingham 's twin city Minsk proving that the department still serves the local community as it did 75 years ago . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The reason for this is that the money you receive back at the end of the year will not go as far or buy as much as it did 12 months earlier . |
| 29 | This operation ( 1960 ) seriously delayed him , for it left one eye permanently damaged , and he was in the Purey-Cust nursing home by the minster in York and then had a convalescence of several weeks . |