Example sentences of "[vb past] it [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The allied word ‘ antibiotic , reached the English language when the botanist Marshall Hall used it 10 years later . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 : |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | And it would have remained little more than a name but for the immense political danger that threatened it 21 years ago . |
| 8 | Of the twins , one contracted the condition when 12 years old while the other developed it 36 years later . |
| 9 | Simeon 's revolt , like the one which preceded it sixty-six years before , was ruthlessly suppressed , but not before the Holy Land had once again been ravaged . |
| 10 | She has run a Beavers Club for boys aged six and seven since she founded it 27 years ago . |
| 11 | You sorted it out and settled it ten years ago , but now you are facing it as a new problem at your present age . |
| 12 | Wordsworth has observed a primrose perched on top of a rock ; in the second stanza he remembers that he first saw it many years ago ( actually 1802 . |
| 13 | ‘ It was like an enchanted garden when we first saw it six years ago , very full and wild . |
| 14 | Try it for yourself : go out into a meadow , a village street , stand by the bank of a stream or on the sea shore and imagine the people who knew it 1,000 years ago . |
| 15 | Capitol Plastics of Bowling Green , Ohio , reckons that it took it three years , $200,000 of investment and meetings wit several hundred people to win its first order ( worth a little over $200 ) from Honda 's plant in Marysville , Ohio . |
| 16 | The Court of Appeal made it nine years . |
| 17 | I bought a little farm near Oakville some years ago at four thousand an acre … sold it two years ago at fifteen thousand an acre … was n't that lucky ! … after all the hard-up years I lived through … almost starving at times … it was Mr Workman who gave me your address for this letter … poor old Fred … he 's getting old like the rest of us … |
| 18 | They later formed Theme Holdings with Peter Langan , opened three restaurants , floated the company on the stock market in 1987 ( value £6m ) and sold it two years later for £18m . |
| 19 | But erm most of the things that you will be de now the thing is about properties , that if you 've got a second property for example , or erm you know that 's not your primary residence , you would be liable to capital gain on a disposal , so if you 'd bought the house for ten thousand and you sold it five years later for twenty , then the gain er on that would be the twenty er the ten thousand that you 'd gained , less any indexation from nineteen eighty two , and they would then er er look at that as an allowance to use against it . |
| 20 | I was knocked out by how brilliant it was when I first read it eight years ago , and now I want to put on a national tour and direct it . ’ |
| 21 | A WOMAN has sold her car back to the garage where she bought it 32 years ago — and got more than she paid . |
| 22 | The house sank into a gently decayed condition when a local architect bought it four years ago . |
| 23 | Software engineering outfit Dazix is now Intergraph Electronics after the company that bought it two years ago . |
| 24 | Then I tried the new needle supplied with the machine when I bought it many years ago . |
| 25 | The Windorah had been a small family hotel before Jenkins bought it seven years earlier . |
| 26 | I was quite embarrassed when we did it two years ago . ’ |
| 27 | I did it ten years ago c . |
| 28 | Here , as he put it many years later , he made the |
| 29 | Three different horses won it four years running . |
| 30 | Farloe Melody , bidding for his third appearance in the Derby final — he won it two years ago — has missed out in the trap draw for heat 15 . |