Example sentences of "it [verb] [verb] [art] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Active since 1987 , it has spent the intervening years seeking solutions that combine an adequate defence of the city against flooding with reestablishment and conservation of the environmental characteristics peculiar to the Lagoon and the safeguarding of economic interests on the surrounding hinterland . |
| 2 | I accept that it has taken a few years for the process to be completed , but everyone who studies the history books will be able to trace the downfall of the Thatcher Government — as some may still call it — to the time when she was foolish enough to remove the right hon. Gentleman from the duties that he was carrying out so successfully . |
| 3 | The Richmond Meet is clearly thriving — but how did it manage to survive the lean years ? |
| 4 | If only it had come a few years earlier . |
| 5 | He went on to say that while Wedgwood remained profitable , it had experienced a difficult year . |
| 6 | It had burned a whole year long , and the half of another , the image of Linnet gliding down the aisle behind Gemma like a lovely abandoned swan so engraved on Ben Braithwaite 's memory that he would have no peace , no rest — he 'd vowed — until he had possessed her . |
| 7 | as if it had happened a few years ago , Mr Donal John MacLennan , leaning on his metal gate as his sheep thronged the pens of today 's farm at Corry , knew that Johnson and Boswell had been guests in this place , and that they had had good times here . |