Example sentences of "when it be [verb] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Bob Woodward and his brother John became interested in the pavement when it was uncovered some years ago . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | INVESTORS who piled into North West Water when it was floated three years ago are on the crest of a wave . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Die Hard 's action sequences won rave reviews when it was released four years ago . |
| 6 | 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 . |