Example sentences of "[verb] it [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had discarded it several years ago , as being much fuller than she really liked , but everything came into its own , she reflected , for every article purchased she took pride in finding an eventual use . |
| 2 | The architect who designed it twenty years before , Blanche reflected , had drawn inspiration from childhood memories of dog-eared graph paper — neatly ruled green squares within a darker grid of ruled squares . |
| 3 | The allied word ‘ antibiotic , reached the English language when the botanist Marshall Hall used it 10 years later . |
| 4 | done it four years and this year we 're Worcester . |
| 5 | Harry had done it ten years ago ( 37 ) b . |
| 6 | Indeed , for the first three months of his premiership lie performed a feat which had seemed remarkable even when Gladstone had last done it forty years before and retained the Chancellorship as well as being First Lord of the Treasury . |
| 7 | Because that 's how they 'd done it twenty years ago , and that 's how they 're going to do it till they retire . |
| 8 | As we spoke , a car drew up in the carport ( which incidentally was still just as I 'd built it 15 years ago ! ) and to our astonishment ( because the ownership had changed since we sold it ) the lady recognised us ( she 'd been given our Edinburgh address by a mutual friend and had actually called on us once , which we 'd totally forgotten ! ) . |
| 9 | I 'll give it three years before it starts going downhill again |
| 10 | Thrift apologizes , whingeing , for the poisoned sausage , reminding Alix that she ate it twenty years ago , when she had no money and needed the sausage . |
| 11 | It had taken us an hour to walk but had taken the men who drove it thirteen years of drilling and blasting through 748 fathoms of solid rock to build it . |
| 12 | One passage , when Edward was a scholar at Battersea Grammar School , sums up the general atmosphere of 61 Shelgate Road , as the poet recalled it twenty years later : |
| 13 | It may be that he took new insignia after the subjugation of Norway , and that he left his old crown in Winchester , in much the same way that Henry II of Germany had , at his imperial coronation in 1014 , hung his former crown above the altar of St Peter 's , where Cnut would almost certainly have seen it thirteen years later . |
| 14 | I 've only noticed it five years , it looks filthy , although it 's been in the car wash . |
| 15 | Baldwin confirmed it twenty years later , when he wrote to Tom Jones front the depths of his retirement : ‘ I spent a lot of my holiday in 1923 walking in the hills around Aix and thought it all out by myself . |
| 16 | She was saying four years four years and I said I 've not had it four years |
| 17 | Yeah , well I 've only got the one I 've only got the one erm golly how long have I had that yellow must have had it four years or more I 've only worn it about three times I think it 's erm a telly mac and it 's a yellow one erm and it is a bit longer so all these go underneath it , quite well |
| 18 | I 've had it thirty years in my garden . |
| 19 | He 's had it two years , but |
| 20 | If would have thought we should have had it two years ago , if we 'd got moving , but we have n't . |
| 21 | I 've had it three years . |
| 22 | Secondly , why is there imprisonment in England and Wales when the Government abolished it four years ago in Scotland ? |
| 23 | Ward had bought it four years earlier with part of the advance on one of his books . |
| 24 | My crew were never aware of my lapse and I am just as ashamed to tell this story today as I would had I told it 45 years ago . |
| 25 | Give it fifty years and I 'll bet you that the baker and all the rest of the folks , it 'll be coming from a supermarket , but they 'll be delivering stuff that you 've put on your computer . |
| 26 | OK , give it ten years and perhaps only 20 per cent will be producing what 60 per cent or 70 per cent were twenty-five years ago . |
| 27 | He says it 's another shock , to extend it five years — it 's more devastating than it was to begin with — yet more uncertainty . |
| 28 | And it would have remained little more than a name but for the immense political danger that threatened it 21 years ago . |
| 29 | Of the twins , one contracted the condition when 12 years old while the other developed it 36 years later . |
| 30 | A small ensemble of four viole da braccio plus continuo suggests the trot , canter , and gallop of Tancred 's horse , the fall of night , the clash of swords , the fury of the combatants ( by rapidly repeated chords , an instrumental effect which disconcerted the players although Biagio Marini had employed it seven years before ) , 2l and their infighting with sword-pommels , helmets , and shields ( by another novel effect : pizzicato chords ) . |