Example sentences of "it be [verb] [adj] year [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I can remember it being done 15 years ago at Hodder & Stoughton . ’ |
| 2 | Now they are exchanging information right away , and not waiting till it is published two years later in a scientific journal . ’ |
| 3 | And if racing round the world was n't enough , these half million pound yachts will be tackling it the wrong way — against the winds and currents , to commemorate the first time it was done 21 years ago by British sailor Chay Blyth . |
| 4 | Given the go-ahead in 1793 , it was completed 30 years later . |
| 5 | It has a proven track record , creating 71,000 new job opportunities since it was formed seven years ago . |
| 6 | They divided the territory in two , though it was reunited thirty years later . |
| 7 | It was written four years ago by Neil , Lea , John and Charlie Heather and is based on their teenage experiences . |
| 8 | The discovery that oriented bars and edges were the trigger features for neurons in the visual cortex was enormously exciting when it was made thirty years ago , but Levick followed up their discovery and found that there are orientation selective neurons in rabbit retina as well as the directionally selective ones shown in Figure 4 . |
| 9 | It was revealed many years later that Sid had not actually bought the winning ticket but had found it mysteriously floating in his half-time Bovril . |
| 10 | INVESTORS who piled into North West Water when it was floated three years ago are on the crest of a wave . |
| 11 | Since it was restructured five years ago ( see Nature 332 , 197 ; 1988 ) , the CSIR has tried to obtain a larger proportion of its income from both the private and public sectors for consulting . |
| 12 | Dr Bob Woodward and his brother John became interested in the pavement when it was uncovered some years ago . |
| 13 | The doctrine that mental disease did not have a physical cause became widely established , so much so that a study published in 1915 which reported definite changes in the left cerebral hemispheres of schizophrenic patients was largely ignored until it was rediscovered 70 years later . |
| 14 | Retailers say Pentland Crown , the Scottish-bred variety which increased farmers ' yields by up to 20 per cent when it was introduced 30 years ago , bruises too easily and goes black . |
| 15 | It was revived four years later when they ran into each other again in the unromantic setting of a Greenwich Village laundromat . |
| 16 | Die Hard 's action sequences won rave reviews when it was released four years ago . |
| 17 | ‘ It is very plush in all areas ’ , he said , ‘ as it was refurbished three years ago . |
| 18 | It was sold ten years ago . ’ |
| 19 | It was finished many years ago and has never been moved since . |
| 20 | Their reaction was predictable : ‘ One expects them to groan , though I do n't know quite why we should be seeing a piece as it was performed 50 years ago . |
| 21 | Of the 16 funds that made up our Global Strategy umbrella fund when it was launched five years ago , no less than four have come first in their respective sectors over this period , according to Finstat . |
| 22 | It was founded five years ago as a small voluntary organisation and now has grown to a membership of 275 and a permanent secretariat with full time staff . |
| 23 | It remained as one of the Abbey 's treasures until it was stolen some years ago . |